Ulangan 20:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Hanya pohon-pohon, yang engkau tahu tidak menghasilkan makanan, boleh kaurusakkan dan kautebang untuk mendirikan pagar pengepungan terhadap kota yang berperang melawan engkau, sampai kota itu jatuh."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Hanya pohon-pohon, yang engkau tahu tidak menghasilkan makanan, boleh kaurusakkan dan kautebang untuk mendirikan pagar pengepungan terhadap kota yang berperang melawan engkau, sampai kota itu jatuh."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi adapun segala kayu-kayuan yang kamu ketahui bukan pohon yang dapat dimakan buahnya, ia itu hendaklah kamu bantun dan kamu tebang dan perbuatkan dia apilan akan melawan negeri yang berperang dengan kamu, sampai ia itu sudah alah.

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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt build: Deuteronomy 1:28, 2 Chronicles 26:15, Ecclesiastes 9:14, Isaiah 37:33, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 33:4, Ezekiel 17:17

be subdued: Heb. come down

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:19 - fell 2 Kings 3:25 - and felled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,.... Which might be known not only by their not having fruit upon them, but by other tokens, and even at a time of year when there was no fruit on any, which might be sometimes the season of a siege:

thou shalt destroy and cut them down; if so to do was of any disservice to the enemy, or of any service to them, as follows; they had a liberty to destroy them if they would:

and thou shall build bulwarks against the city that maketh war, until it be subdued; build bulwarks of the trees cut down, and raise batteries with them, or make machines and engines of the wood of them, to cast stones into the city to annoy the inhabitants of it, in order to make them surrender, and until they do it. All this may be an emblem of the axe being to be laid to fruitless trees in a moral and spiritual sense; and of trees of righteousness, laden with the fruits of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, being preserved and never to be cut down or rooted up; see Matthew 3:10.

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.