Chapter 20

1
goest out Deut 3:21-22, Deut 7:1

horses Josh 10:5-8, Josh 11:4-6, Josh 11:9; Judg 4:3-9; 2Chr 14:11, 2Chr 20:12; Ps 20:7; Ps 33:16-17; Isa 31:1, Isa 37:24-25

the Lord Deut 2:7, Deut 31:6, Deut 31:8; Gen 26:3; Num 23:21; Josh 1:5, Josh 1:9; Judg 6:12; 2Chr 32:7-8; Ps 46:7, Ps 46:11, Ps 118:6; Isa 7:14, Isa 8:9-10, Isa 43:2; Rom 8:31


2
Num 10:8-9, Num 31:6; Judg 20:27-28; 1Sam 14:18, 1Sam 30:7-8; 2Chr 13:12


3
let not Ps 27:1-3; Isa 35:3-4, Isa 41:10-14; Matt 10:16, Matt 10:28, Matt 10:31; Eph 6:11-18; 1Thess 5:15; Heb 12:12-13; Rev 2:10

faint Heb. be tender

tremble Heb. make haste, Isa 28:16

be ye terrified Ps 3:6; Isa 8:12-13, Isa 57:7-8; Matt 8:26; Mark 16:6, Mark 16:18; Acts 18:9-10, Acts 27:24; 1Tim 6:12; Heb 13:6


4
to fight Deut 1:30, Deut 3:22, Deut 11:25, Deut 32:30; Exod 14:14; Josh 10:42, Josh 23:10; 2Chr 13:12; 2Chr 32:7-8; Ps 144:1-2; Rom 8:37


5
the officers Deut 1:15, Deut 16:18; Num 31:14, Num 31:48; 1Sam 17:18

dedicated Neh 12:27; Ps 30:1 *title


6
eaten of it Heb. made it common, Deut. 28:1-30:20; Lev 19:23-25; Jer 31:5

lest he die Isa 65:22; Zeph 1:13


7
betrothed a wife It was customary among the Jews to contract matrimony, espouse, or betroth, and for a considerable time to leave the parties in the houses of the respective parents; and when the bridegroom had made proper preparations, then the bride was brought home to his house, and the marriage consummated. The provisions in this verse refer to a case of this kind; though the Jews extend it to him who had newly consummated his marriage, and even to him who had married his brother's wife. It was deemed a peculiar hardship for a person to be obliged to go to battle, who had left a house unfinished, newly purchased land half tilled, or a wife with whom he had just contracted marriage. Deut 22:23-25, Deut 24:5; Matt 1:18

lest he die Deut 28:30; Luke 14:18-20; 2Tim 2:4


8
fearful Deut 1:28, Deut 23:9; Judg 7:3; Luke 9:62; Acts 15:37-38; Rev 3:16, Rev 21:8

lest his brethren's Num 13:31-33, Num 14:1-3, Num 32:9; 1Cor 15:33

faint Heb. melt, Deut 1:28 *marg. Exod 15:15


9
to lead the people Heb. to be in the head of the people, Deut 20:9


10
then proclaim 2Sam 20:18-22; Isa 57:19; Zech 9:10; Luke 10:5-6; Acts 10:36; 2Cor 5:18-21, 2Cor 6:1; Eph 2:17


11
tributaries Lev 25:42-46; Josh 9:22-23, Josh 9:27, Josh 11:19-20, Josh 16:10; Judg 1:28, Judg 1:30-35; 1Kgs 9:21-22; Ps 120:7; Luke 19:14


13
thou shalt smite Num 31:7-9, Num 31:17-18; 1Kgs 11:15-16; Ps 2:6-12, Ps 21:8-9, Ps 110:1; Luke 19:27; 2Thess 1:7-9


14
the women Num 31:9, Num 31:12, Num 31:18, Num 31:35-54; Josh 8:2, Josh 11:14; 2Chr 14:13-15, 2Chr 20:25; Ps 68:12; Rom 8:37

take unto thyself Heb. spoil

thou shalt eat Josh 22:8


16
Deut 7:1-4, Deut 7:16; Num 21:2-3, Num 21:35, Num 33:52; Josh 6:17-21, Josh 9:24, Josh 9:27, Josh 10:28, Josh 10:40; Josh 11:11-12, Josh 11:14


17
thou shalt Isa 34:5-6; Jer 48:10, Jer 50:35-40; Ezek 38:21-23; Rev 19:18

the Hittites Deut 7:1


18
Deut 7:4-5, Deut 12:30-31, Deut 18:19; Exod 23:33; Josh 23:13; Judg 2:3; Ps 106:34-40; 1Cor 15:33; 2Cor 6:17; Eph 5:11; 2Thess 3:14; 1Tim 6:5; 2Tim 2:17-18; Rev 18:3-5


19
thou shalt not Matt 3:10, Matt 7:15-20, Matt 21:19; Luke 13:7-9; John 15:2-8

for the tree etc. or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege, The original is exceedingly difficult. The LXX has it, "Is the tree in the field a man, to enter the trench before thee?" The Latin Vulgate: "For it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of those who war against thee;" Onkelos, "For the tree of the field is not as a man, that it should come against thee in the siege;" and to the same purpose the Arabic, Philo, and Josephus who say, "If trees could speak, they would cry out, that it is unjust that they, who were no cause of the war, should suffer the miseries of it." However rendered, the sense is sufficiently clear, and it is a merciful provision to spare all the fruit trees for the support of both the besieged and besiegers. Deut 26:6

to employ etc. Heb. to go from before thee


20
thou shalt build Deut 1:28; 2Chr 26:15; Eccl 9:14; Isa 37:33; Jer 6:6, Jer 33:4; Ezek 17:17

be subdued Heb. come down


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