And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
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Parallel translations
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he showed them the entrance into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.
And he sheweth them the entrance of the city, and they smite the city by the mouth of the sword, and the man and all his family they have sent away;
And he shewed them how to enter into the city. And they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy