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Deutéronome 20:12

Mais si elle ne traite pas avec toi, et qu'elle fasse la guerre contre toi, alors tu mettras le siège contr'elle.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anathema;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peace;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captives;   War;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Que si elle ne traite pas avec toi, mais qu'elle te fasse la guerre, alors tu l'assigeras;
Darby's French Translation
Et si elle ne fait pas la paix avec toi, mais qu'elle fasse la guerre contre toi, tu l'assigeras;
Louis Segond (1910)
Si elle n'accepte pas la paix avec toi et qu'elle veuille te faire la guerre, alors tu l'assigeras.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if it will make no peace with thee,.... Will not accept of terms of peace offered:

but will make war against thee; come out and fight, or prepare to defend themselves: then thou shall besiege it; surround and block it up on all sides with their forces; the Jews say only on three sides, leaving one for any to flee and make their escape if they thought fit;

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 exterminated (compare Deuteronomy 7:1-4). The command did not apply to beasts as well as men (compare Joshua 11:11, Joshua 11:14).

Deuteronomy 20:19

The parenthesis may he more literally rendered “for man is a tree of the field,” i. e., has his life from the tree of the field, is supported in life by it (compare Deuteronomy 24:6). The Egyptians seem invariably to have cut down the fruit-trees in war.


 
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