Deuteronomy 20:13 Parallel Translations
NASB: "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)
GWT: When the LORD your God hands the city over to you, kill every man in that city with your swords.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
ASV: and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
BBE: And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
DBY: and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
ERV: and when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thine hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
JPS: And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;
WBS: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
WEB: and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
YLT: and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:13 Cross References
XREF:Numbers 31:7 So they made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. (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.
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