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Verse Deuteronomy 20:7. _BETROTHED A WIFE, AND HATH NOT TAKEN HER?_]
It was customary among the Jews to contract matrimony, espouse or
betroth, and for some considerable time to leave the parties in...
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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...
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Of War and Exemptions from Service in it
When Israel goes to war with a foe more numerous and having horses
and chariots they shall not fear; Jehovah is with them (Deuteronomy
20:1). On the eve of th...
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_that hath betrothed_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 24:5, exempting the
newly-married from service for a year. The reason can hardly be that
he was unclean for, as in the case of other married men, this obst...
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_VER._ 7. _HATH BETROTHED A WIFE_— See Selden de Uxor. Heb. lib. 3:
cap. 3 and Schickard, Jus. Reg. cap. 5 theor. 17. This was a law of no
less policy and prudence than humanity. Josephus says: "Those...
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(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 a...
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_AND WHAT MAN IS HE THAT HATH PLANTED A VINEYARD, AND HATH NOT YET
EATEN OF IT? LET HIM ALSO GO AND RETURN UNTO HIS HOUSE, LEST HE DIE IN
THE BATTLE, AND ANOTHER MAN EAT OF IT._
No JFB commentary on...
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LAWS OF WARFARE
1. Horses and chariots] The army of the Israelites was chiefly
composed of infantry: see on Deuteronomy 17:16....
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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...
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AND THE OFFICERS. — The _shôterim_ of Deuteronomy 16:18; the civil
magistrates apparently. The organisation of Israel was not military,
but military leaders were to be appointed for special services,...
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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...
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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...
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Taken her. It was customary to leave the espoused virgin in her
father's house for the space of a year, (during which time, if she
proved unfaithful, she was punished like an adulteress, chap. xxii.
2...
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The cases here stated of exception, to disqualify from war, seem to
have been intended in great mercy, that men of timid minds might find
excuse from war, and yet not incur the reproach of their breth...
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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...
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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...
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AND WHAT MAN IS THERE THAT HATH BETROTHED A WIFE, AND HATH NOT TAKEN
HER?.... Home to his house and bedded with her; has only betrothed
her, but is not properly married to her, the nuptials are not
co...
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And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man take her.
Ver. 8. _That is fearful and fai...
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_Hath betrothed a wife_ The time allowed in this case was a year,
Deuteronomy 24:5. This was a law of great humanity, that conjugal love
might not be disturbed, but have time to knit into a firm and l...
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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...
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And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
her, the formal marriage not yet having taken place? LET HIM GO AND
RETURN UNTO HIS HOUSE, LEST HE DIE IN THE BATTLE, AND ANOTHER M...
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THE SELECTION OF SOLDIERS FOR A CAMPAIGN...
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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...
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1-9 In the wars wherein Israel engaged according to the will of God,
they might expect the Divine assistance. The Lord was to be their only
confidence. In these respects they were types of the Christ...
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Betrothing was done by a solemn and mutual promise, but not by an
actual contract. See GENESIS 19:14 DEUTERONOMY 22:23....
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"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...
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Deuteronomy 20:7 man H376 betrothed H781 (H8765) woman H802 married
H3947 (H8804) go H3212 (H8799) return...
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PREPARATION FOR BATTLE (DEUTERONOMY 20:1).
Israel was on the verge of a holy war, and instructions as to how to
face up to such a fact were very necessary. They were not a warlike
people, or a trained...
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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...
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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...
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_Let him go and return to his house._
THE EXEMPTIONS IN WAR
Soldiers must be as free from care and cowardice as possible.
Wellington declared “that the power of the greatest armies depends
upon what...
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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
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 20:5 Three situations would exempt a
man from military service. Compare Deuteronomy 28:30. God desired that
his people enjoy the blessings of housing,
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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...
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EXPOSITION
DIRECTIONS CONCERNING WARFARE IN GENERAL, AND FOR THE BESIEGING OF
CITIES IN PARTICULAR.
DEUTERONOMY 20:1
The instructi
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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...
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2 Timothy 2:4; Deuteronomy 22:23; Deuteronomy 24:5; Deuteronomy 28:30;...