Deuteronomy 20:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

If they won't accept your offer of peace but declare war on you, set up a blockade around the city.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

ASV:

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

BBE:

If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

DBY:

And if it will not make peace with thee, but will make war with thee, then thou shalt besiege it;

ERV:

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

JPS:

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it.

WBS:

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

WEB:

If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

YLT:

'And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it,

Deuteronomy 20:12 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 20:11 "If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.

Deuteronomy 20:13 "When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

20:10-12 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 show us our duty in dealing with our brethren. Whoever are for war, we must be for peace. Of the cities given to Israel, none of their inhabitants must be left. Since it could not be expected that they should be cured of their idolatry, they would hurt Israel. These regulations are not the rules of our conduct, but Christ's law of love. The horrors of war must fill the feeling heart with anguish upon every recollection; and are proofs of the wickedness of man, the power of Satan, and the just vengeance of God, who thus scourges a guilty world. But how dreadful their case who are engaged in unequal conflict with their Maker, who will not submit to render him the easy tribute of worship and praise! Certain ruin awaits them. Let neither the number nor the power of the enemies of our souls dismay us; nor let even our own weakness cause us to tremble or to faint. The Lord will save us; but in this war let none engage whose hearts are fond of the world, or afraid of the cross and the conflict. Care is here taken that in besieging cities the fruit-trees should not be destroyed. God is a better friend to man than he is to himself; and God's law consults our interests and comforts; while our own appetites and passions, which we indulge, are enemies to our welfare. Many of the Divine precepts restrain us from destroying that which is for our life and food. The Jews understand this as forbidding all wilful waste upon any account whatsoever. Every creature of God is good; as nothing is to be refused, so nothing is to be abused. We may live to want what we carelessly waste.

CONC:

Battle Besiege Engage Hast However Laid Lay Makes Peace Refuse Shut Sides Siege War

Battle Besiege City Engage However Lay Makes Peace Refuse Shut Sides Siege War

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