Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:

if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,

'And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

Si interfeceris populum hunc quasi virum unum, tunc dicent gentes quae audierint famam tuam.

Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as (g) one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
(g) So that none shall escape.

Now if thou shall kill all this people, as one man,.... Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smitten at once, and as thought by the same disease, by the Angel of the Lord in the camp of the Assyrians, in later times, 2-Kings 19:35,
then the nations which have heard the fame of thee; the Egyptians, Canaanites, and others, as Aben Ezra observes; who had heard the report of the wonderful things done by him for Israel, and of the great favours he had bestowed upon them, and so of his power, and goodness, and other perfections displayed therein, which made him appear to be preferable to all the gods of the Gentiles:
will speak, saying; as follows.