2 Kings 3:19 - Exposition

And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city. The LXX . omit the second clause, perhaps because they could not reproduce in Greek the assonance of the Hebrew, where the words for "fenced" and "choice" ( מִבְצֶר and מִבְצוֹר ) have nearly the same sound. And shall fell every good tree. It has been said that the Law forbade this, and argued

But a careful examination of the passage in Deuteronomy will show