So Joshua struck all the country of the hills, and of the South, and of the lowland, and of the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Hills of Judea. South of the promised land. Plain. Hebrew, Sephela, a flat country near Eleuthero polis. (St. Jerome in Abd. i. 19; 1 Machabees xii. 38.) Asedoth, "of the springs. " Remains. God ordered these people to be utterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abominations; and that they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins. (Challoner)

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