watchers i.e. the Israelite outposts. The word favours an emendation such as -encamped" in Judges 1:23; cf. 2 Samuel 11:16.

the entrance into the city i.e. not the gate, but the point where the city could be most easily entered by an attacking party. For the stipulation cf. Joshua 2:12 f.

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