Księga Powtórzonego Prawa 20:9

Biblia Gdańska

A gdy przestaną hetmani mówić do ludu, tedy postawią rotmistrze wojsk przed ludem.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Gdy tedy hetmani przestaną mówić do ludu, tedy postanowią rotmistrze przed hufy.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
A gdy przełożeni zakończą swoje mowy, postawią na czele zastępów dowódców.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A gdy przełożeni przestaną przemawiać do ludu, wyznaczą na czoło narodu wodzów nad oddziałami.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
A gdy przestaną hetmani mówić do ludu, tedy postawią rotmistrze wojsk przed ludem.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
A gdy dowódcy przestaną mówić do ludu, wtedy wyznaczą dowódców wojsk na czele ludu.

Biblia Warszawska
A gdy nadzorcy skończą swoje przemówienie do wojowników, postawią dowódców oddziałów na czele wojowników.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to lead the people: Heb. to be in the head of the people, Deuteronomy 20:9

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people,.... By reciting what the anointed of war said unto them, and by speeches of their own framing, to encourage to the battle; and all were dismissed that had leave to depart, and chose to take it:

that they shall make captains of armies to lead on the people; on to battle; that is, either the officers should do this, which may seem to confirm what has been hinted, that they might be generals of the army, who constituted captains under them, to lead the people on to battle: unless this is to be understood of the princes of Israel, or of the king when they had one, and his ministers; for it does not appear in any instance that the people chose their own officers over them, to go out before them, and lead them on to battle; or "to be at the head of them" z; which the Jewish writers understand in a very different sense; not to head them, or be at the head of them, to direct and command them, but to keep them from deserting: their sense is, that the officers having dismissed persons in the circumstances before described, and set stout men before them, and others behind them (i.e. the army of the people), with iron hatchets in their hands, and every one that sought to return, they had power to cut off his legs; since flight is the beginning of falling before their enemies a.

z בראש העם "in capite populi", Pagninus, Montanus. a Misn. ut supra (Sotah, c. 8.), sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meaning is that the “officers” should then subdivide the levies, and appoint leaders of the smaller divisions thus constituted.