Księga Powtórzonego Prawa 20:2

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A gdy będziecie przygotowywać się do bitwy, wystąpi kapłan i przemówi do wojska.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A gdy się już ku bitwie staczać będziecie, tedy kapłan wystąpiwszy będzie mówił do ludu.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
A gdy się przybliżać będziecie ku potykaniu, wystąpi kapłan, i przemówi do ludu.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zatem gdy będziecie się szykowali do wojny, niechaj wystąpi kapłan oraz przemówi do ludu.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
A gdy się przybliżać będziecie ku potykaniu, wystąpi kapłan, i przemówi do ludu.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
A gdy będziecie się zbliżać do walki, kapłan wystąpi i przemówi do ludu;

Biblia Warszawska
A gdy już będziecie mieli ruszyć do walki, wystąpi kapłan, przemówi do ludu

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, Numbers 31:6, Judges 20:27, Judges 20:28, 1 Samuel 14:18, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 30:8, 2 Chronicles 13:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:6 - Take up the ark

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,.... When all things are preparing for it, and it seems unavoidable:

that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people; not any priest, but one appointed for this service; who is called

the anointed of war, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe, and concerning whom Maimonides d is more particular; he says,

"they appoint a priest to speak to the people at the time of war, and they anoint him with the anointing oil, and he is called the anointed of war; twice the anointed of war speaks unto the people, once in a book at the time they go forth, before they set in battle array, he says to the people, "what man is there", c. and when he has caused his words to be heard, he returns at another time, when they are set in array, he says, "fear not", c.''

this man seems to be an emblem of Gospel ministers, who are anointed with the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, and whose business it is to encourage the people of God to fight the Lord's battles against sin, Satan, and the world, and not to be afraid of their spiritual enemies directing them to take to them the whole armour of God, and to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ, to follow him the captain of their salvation, assuring them of victory through him who makes them more than conquerors, and that their warfare is or shortly will be accomplished.

d Hilchot Melachim, c. 7. sect. 1, 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The priest - Not the high priest, but one appointed for the purpose, and called, according to the rabbis, “the anointed of the war”: hence, perhaps the expression of Jeremiah 6:4, etc. “prepare ye” (literally consecrate) “war.” Thus, Phinehas went with the warriors to fight against Midian (Numbers 31:6; compare 1Sa 4:4, 1 Samuel 4:11; 2 Chronicles 13:12).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 20:2. The priest shall approach, and speak unto the people — The priest on these occasions was the representative of that God whose servant he was, and whose worship he conducted. It is remarkable that almost all ancient nations took their priests with them to battle, as they did not expect success without having the object of their adoration with them, and they supposed they secured his presence by having that of his representative.