looked behind them Cf. Joshua 8:20. It almost seems as if the account of the capture of Ai by a similar stratagem had influenced the present narrative.

the whole of the city Cf. Deuteronomy 13:16 -and thou shalt burn the city with fire as a whole offeringunto Jehovah thy God"; but perhaps the word is hardly intended to bear its technical sense of holocausthere.

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