Ulangan 20:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lagi para pengatur pasukan itu harus berbicara kepada tentara demikian: Siapa takut dan lemah hati? Ia boleh pergi dan pulang ke rumahnya, supaya hati saudara-saudaranya jangan tawar seperti hatinya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lagi para pengatur pasukan itu harus berbicara kepada tentara demikian: Siapa takut dan lemah hati? Ia boleh pergi dan pulang ke rumahnya, supaya hati saudara-saudaranya jangan tawar seperti hatinya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi hendaklah dilanjutkan panglima itu katanya demikian: Mana orang yang penakut dan yang tawar hatinya, baiklah ia pergi dan pulang ke rumahnya, supaya jangan hati saudara-saudaranyapun menjadi tawar seperti hati orang itu.

Contextual Overview

¹ When thou goest out to battayle agaynst thine enemies, & seest horses, and charettes, and people, mo then thou, be not afrayde of them: for the Lorde thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt. ² And when ye are come nye vnto battayle, ye priest shall come foorth to speake vnto the people, ³ And shall say vnto them: Heare O Israel, you are come this day vnto battayle agaynst your enemies, let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amazed, nor a dread of them: ⁴ For the Lord your God goeth with you, to fyght for you agaynst your enemies, and to saue you. ⁵ And let the officers speake vnto the people, saying: If any man haue built a newe house, and haue not dedicate it: let hym go and returne to his house, lest he dye in the battayle, and another man dedicate it. ⁶ And if any man haue planted a vineyarde, and haue not made it comon: let hym go and returne agayne vnto his house, lest he dye in the battayle, and another make it common, ⁷ And if any man be betrouthed vnto a wyfe, and haue not taken her: let hym go and returne agayne vnto his house, lest he dye in the battayle, and another man take her. ⁸ And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say: If any man feare and be faynt hearted, let hym go & returne vnto his house, lest he make his brothers heart faynt as well as his. ⁹ And when the officers haue made an ende of speakyng vnto the people, they shall make captaynes of the armie to gouerne the people.

Bible Verse Review
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fearful: Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 23:9, Judges 7:3, Luke 9:62, Acts 15:37, Acts 15:38, Revelation 3:16, Revelation 21:8

lest his brethren's: Numbers 13:31-33, Numbers 14:1-3, Numbers 32:9, 1 Corinthians 15:33

faint: Heb. melt, Deuteronomy 1:28, *marg. Exodus 15:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:17 - the people repent Joshua 1:14 - the mighty Joshua 2:11 - our hearts 1 Samuel 13:7 - followed him trembling Jeremiah 49:23 - fainthearted Ezekiel 21:7 - and every 2 Thessalonians 3:13 - be not weary

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the officers shall speak further unto the people,.... According to Maimonides n, the priest the anointed of war spoke to the end of Deuteronomy 20:7 and which the officers repeated after him to the people aloud, as before observed; and then after that an officer speaks of himself, or in his own words, and not in those of the priest, as follows;

what man that is fearful, c. and then another officer causes all the people to hear it:

and they shall say, what man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? that has not courage to face his enemies, to whom the terrors of war, and especially of death, are dreadful the Targum of Jonathan adds,

"because of his sin;''

whose sins stare him in the face, and lie heavy on his conscience; so that he is afraid he shall die in battle, and in his sins, and suffer divine vengeance; both these senses are observed in the Misnah y. According to R. Akiba, a fearful and fainthearted man is one

"that cannot stand in battle array, or behold a drawn sword; but R. Jose the Galilean says, he is one that is afraid of the transgressions he has committed; and therefore the law joins to this all those things for which a man may return;''

as having built a new house, planted a vineyard, and betrothed a wife; that so it might be thought it was on account of one or other of these that he returned, and not through faintheartedness, either because of the terrors of war, or of his own conscience for his sins:

let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart; lest, by his pale looks and trembling joints, his fainting fits and swoons, he discourage the rest in the same company with him, and by his example make them unfit for war also.

n Ut supra. (Hilchot Melachim, c. 7. sect. 3.) y Misn. Sotah, c. 8. sect. 5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 20:8. What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? — The original רך rach, signifies tender or soft-hearted. And a soft heart the man must have who, in such a contest, after such a permission, could turn his back upon his enemies and his brethren. However, such were the troops commanded by Gideon in his war against the Midianites; for after he gave this permission, out of 32,000 men only 10,000 remained to fight! Judges 7:3. There could be no deception in a business of this kind; for the departure of the 22,000 was the fullest proof of their dastardliness which they could possibly give.