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# when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants ... when all of them ... had fallen by the edge of the sword
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The writer uses both of these sentences, which mean almost the same thing, to strongly say that the Israelites had obeyed God's command to kill everyone in Ai.
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# had fallen by the edge of the sword
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"had died in battle" or "had died when the army of Israel attacked them"
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