Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 20:20
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Directions intended to prevent wanton destruction of life and property in sieges. Deuteronomy 20:16 Forbearance, however, was not to be shown toward the Canaanite nations, which were to be utterly ex...
DEUTERONOMY 20. LAWS TO BE OBSERVED DURING WAR. Peculiar to cf. Deuteronomy 21:10 (which some attach immediately to ch. 20) and Deuteronomy 23:9; Deuteronomy 24:5 (see remarks prefixed to...
_bulwarks_ Heb. _maṣor_, from the vb _to besiege_, therefore, SIEGE-WORKS, or circumvallation. See Micah 5:1 (Deuteronomy 4:14), Isaiah 29:3;...
_VER._ 19, 20. (_FOR THE TREE OF THE FIELD IS MAN'S LIFE_) _TO EMPLOY THEM IN THE SIEGE_— The plain meaning of the passage, as appears from the context, is, that in case of a long siege, where they mi...
(5) RESPECT FOR NATURAL RESOURCES (Deuteronomy 20:19-20) 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against _it_ to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an a...
_ONLY THE TREES WHICH THOU KNOWEST THAT THEY BE NOT TREES FOR MEAT, THOU SHALT DESTROY AND CUT THEM DOWN; AND THOU SHALT BUILD BULWARKS AGAINST THE CITY THAT MAKETH WAR WITH THEE, UNTIL IT BE SUBDUED....
LAWS OF WARFARE 1. Horses and chariots] The army of the Israelites was chiefly composed of infantry: see on Deuteronomy 17:16....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 20 V1 ‘Do not be afraid when you go to fight against your enemies. You may see horses and carts...
Deuteronomy 20:10. SIEGES. (10) WHEN THOU COMEST NIGH... PROCLAIM PEACE. — Not as the children of Dan did, who massacred the inhabitants of Laish without warning (Judges 18:27). Even in the wars of Jo...
רַ֞ק עֵ֣ץ אֲשֶׁר ־תֵּדַ֗ע כִּֽי ־לֹא ־עֵ֤ץ
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...
It is necessary to bear in mind that these people were being led into the land not merely to find a possession for themselves as an established nation, but first as the scourge of God against a corrup...
_Engines. Hebrew matsor. Besieged cities were surrounded with palisades, for which a great deal of wood was requisite, Luke xix. 45. Josephus (Jewish Wars v. 31,) informs us, that Titus surrounded Jer...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us not shut the book after the perusal of this Chapter, without first looking up for grace to bless the LORD for our happy lot, in being brought within the peaceable kingdom of...
There seems much mercy in this precept, and it is not confined we may suppose to trees only, but of a general tendency, in war to preserve all that can be consistently done, that there may be no waste...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...
ONLY THE TREES WHICH THOU KNOWEST THAT THEY BE NOT TREES FOR meat,.... Which might be known not only by their not having fruit upon them, but by other tokens, and even at a time of year when there was...
1 The Priests exhortation to encourage the people to battell. 5 The officers proclamation who are to be dismissed from the warre. 10 How to vse the Cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of p...
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, whose fruit could not be used for food, THOU SHALT DESTROY AND CUT THEM DOWN; AND THOU SHALT BUILD BULWARKS AGAINST THE CITY THAT MAK...
MANNER OF DEALING WITH A BESIEGED CITY...
WARFARE REGULATED BY GOD (vs.1-19) God certainly never did approve the saying, "All's fair in love and war." Rather, God gave explicit instructions to Israel as to how to conduct their warfare. But...
IT BE SUBDUED: _ Heb._ it come down...
10-12 The Israelites are here directed about the nations on whom they made war. Let this show God's grace in dealing with sinners. He proclaims peace, and beseeches them to be reconciled. Let it also...
"When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of...
Deuteronomy 20:20 trees H6086 know H3045 (H8799) trees H6086 food H3978 destroy H7843 (H8686) down H3772 ...
THE PRESERVATION OF TREES (DEUTERONOMY 20:19). Analysis using the words of Moses: a When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by...
CONTENTS: Laws of warfare. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those enterprises which we undertake by a divine warrant and prosecute by divine direction, we may expect to succeed in. Those have no...
Deuteronomy 20:5. _Hath not dedicated it._ David composed the xxxth Psalm for the dedication of his new palace. Good men warmed a new house by devotion. Deuteronomy 20:9. _The officers shall make capt...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 20:1 These laws on warfare (especially vv. Deuteronomy 20:16) may seem to be at odds with the teachings of the NT. But three things should be kept in m
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 20:19 Israel is to inherit trees that it did not plant (see Deuteronomy 6:11)....
CRITICAL NOTES.—Reverence for life, and that which tends to preserve it, was the motive for laws given in last chapter. The same is the basis of those in this chapter. Even in time of war, forbearance...
EXPOSITION DIRECTIONS CONCERNING WARFARE IN GENERAL, AND FOR THE BESIEGING OF CITIES IN PARTICULAR. DEUTERONOMY 20:1 The instructi
Now when they went to war, [chapter twenty] against your enemies, and you see the horses, and chariots, don't be afraid: for the LORD is with you, who brought you out of Egypt (Deuteronomy 20:1). Now...
2 Chronicles 26:15; Deuteronomy 1:28; Ecclesiastes 9:14; Ezekiel 17:17;...