5 Mose 20:14

Elberfelder Bibel

Doch die Weiber und die Kinder, und das Vieh und alles, was in der Stadt sein wird, alle ihre Beute, sollst du für dich rauben; und du sollst die Beute deiner Feinde essen, die Jehova, dein Gott, dir gegeben hat.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
aber die Weiber und Kinder und das Vieh und alles, was in der Stadt ist, und allen Raub sollst du dir zur Beute nehmen und sollst essen von der Beute deiner Feinde, die der Herr , dein Gott, dir gegeben hat.

Lutherbible (1912)
Allein die Weiber, die Kinder und das Vieh und alles, was in der Stadt ist, und allen Raub sollst du unter dich austeilen und sollst essen von der Ausbeute deiner Feinde, die dir der HERR, dein Gott, gegeben hat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the women: Numbers 31:9, Numbers 31:12, Numbers 31:18, Numbers 31:35-54, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 11:14, 2 Chronicles 14:13-15, 2 Chronicles 20:25, Psalms 68:12, Romans 8:37

take unto thyself: Heb. spoil

thou shalt eat: Joshua 22:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:7 - all Numbers 31:11 - General Numbers 31:53 - General Deuteronomy 2:35 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the women, the little ones, and the cattle,.... These were to be spared; women, because of the weakness of their sex, and subjection to their husbands; and little ones, which take in males as well as females, as Jarchi observes, because of their tender age; and cattle because of their insensibility; all these having had no concern in holding out the siege:

and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall thou take unto thyself; gold, silver, merchandise, household goods, utensils in trade, and whatever was of any worth and value to be found in their houses:

and thou shall eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee; that is, enjoy all their wealth and riches, estates and possessions; for this is not to be restrained to things eatable only.

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.