Text -- Deuteronomy 13:16 (NET)

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 13:16

¹ tn Heb “street.”

² tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).