5 Mose 20:12

Elberfelder Bibel

Und wenn sie nicht Frieden mit dir macht, sondern Krieg mit dir führt, so sollst du sie belagern;

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Will sie aber nicht friedlich mit dir unterhandeln, sondern mit dir Krieg führen, so belagere sie.

Lutherbible (1912)
Will sie aber nicht friedlich mit dir handeln und will mit dir kriegen, so belagere sie.

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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.