Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 13:15

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edg of the sword, destroying it utterly , and all that therein is, and the cattel with the edg of the sword.

To wit, all that are guilty, not the innocent part, such as disowned this Apostacy, who doubtless by choice and interest, at least upon warning, would come out of so wicked and cursed a place.

The very same punishments which was inflicted upon the cities of the cursed Canaanites, to whom having made themselves equal in sin, it is but fit and just that God should equal them in punishment.

Marginal references: Iosh. 6. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪