Ulangan 20:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi apabila kota itu tidak mau berdamai dengan engkau, melainkan mengadakan pertempuran melawan engkau, maka haruslah engkau mengepungnya;

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi apabila kota itu tidak mau berdamai dengan engkau, melainkan mengadakan pertempuran melawan engkau, maka haruslah engkau mengepungnya;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi jikalau tiada ia berdamai dengan kamu demikian, melainkan ia hendak berperang juga dengan kamu maka hendaklah kamu mengepungi dia rapat-rapat.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ When thou commest nye vnto a citie to fyght agaynst it, offer them peace. ¹¹ And if they aunswere thee agayne peaceably, and open vnto thee, then let all the people that is founde therin, be tributaries vnto thee, and serue thee. ¹² And if they wyll make no peace with thee, but make warre agaynst thee, thou shalt besiege it. ¹³ And when the Lorde thy God hath deliuered it into thine handes, thou shalt smyte all the males therof with the edge of the sworde: ¹⁴ But the women, and the children, and the cattell, and all that is in the citie, and all the spoyle therof shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and eate the spoyle of thine enemies, which the Lorde thy God hath geuen thee. ¹⁵ Thus shalt thou do vnto all the cities which are a great way of from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. ¹⁶ But of the cities of these nations which the Lorde thy God shall geue thee to inherite, thou shalt saue alyue nothyng that breatheth: ¹⁷ But shalt destroy them without redemption, namely the Hethites, the Amorites, the Chanaanites, the Pherezites, the Heuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee: ¹⁸ That they teache you not to do after all their abhominations which they haue done vnto their Gods, and so ye shoulde sinne agaynst the Lorde your God. ¹⁹ When thou hast besieged a citie long tyme, and made warre agaynst it to take it, destroy not the trees therof, that thou wouldest thrust an axe vnto them: but eate of them, and cut them not downe to further thee in thy siege: for the tree of the fielde is mans life.

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Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.

Genesis 12:13
Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion.

1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstayne from all appearaunce of euyll.

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;

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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.