* And they.
   The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased,
   instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an
   earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of
   his vengeance.  Had an angel been commissioned to slay them,
   who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty?  In all
   public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands
   of infants die in great agony every year.  Now, either God is
   not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though
   often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not
   far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect
   justice and goodness.

 * utterly.
  9:24,25  10:28,39  11:14  De 2:34  7:2,3,16  20:16,17 
  1Sa 15:3,8,18,19  1Ki 20:42  Ps 137:8,9  Jer 48:18  Re 18:21