Verse 24
And when they came to the camp of Israel ,.... Not in an orderly regular manner, in rank and file, as an army should march, but in a confused manner, everyone striving who should get thither first, and have the largest share of the booty:
the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them ; being prepared for them, they fell upon them sword in hand, and soon obliged them to flee:
but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country ; they pursued them closely, and slew them as they fled, and followed them not only to their borders, but into their own country: though Schultens F13 De Defect. Hod. Ling. Heb. sect. 26. , from the use of the word נבה in the Arabic language, renders the passage, "and they blunted their swords in it (in that slaughter), even by smiting the Moabites".
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