SUMMARY OF CHAPTER TWENTY _Directions concerning campaigns, 1. The priest shall encourage the people with the assurance that God will accompany and fight for them, 2-4. The officers shall dismiss from the army all who had just built a new house, but had not dedicated it, 5. All who had planted a vin... [ Continue Reading ]
LESSON SIXTEEN DEUTERONOMY 20:1-20; DEUTERONOMY 21:10-14; DEUTERONOMY 23:9-14 g. RULES FOR CONDUCTING THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 20:1-20; Deuteronomy 21:10-14; Deuteronomy 23:9-14) (1) ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE PRIEST (Deuteronomy 20:1-4) When thou goest forth to b [ Continue Reading ]
(2) EXEMPTIONS FROM MILITARY SERVICE (Deuteronomy 20:5-9) 5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is th... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) TREATMENT OF CITIES IN FAR-OFF NATIONS (Deuteronomy 20:10-15) 10 When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) TREATMENT OF CANAANITE CITIES (Deuteronomy 20:16-18) 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; 17 but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite,... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of... [ Continue Reading ]