And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, [that] ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Ver. 8. Ye shall set the city on fire.] Of this fire we may say, as Herodotus doth of Troy, set on fire by the Greeks, that the cinders and ashes thereof were set before the eyes of men, as an example of that sure rule. Great sins have great punishments from God; a like whereunto is that of Job, "Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?" Job 31:3
a Tων μεγαλων αδικηματων μεγαλαι εισι και αι πιμωριαι παρα του Yεου. - Herod.