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Biblia Warszawska

Księga Powtórzonego Prawa 20:10

Gdy podejdziesz do jakiegoś miasta, aby przeciw niemu walczyć, obwieścisz mu pokój.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Siege;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anathema;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ban;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Wisdom of Solomon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cruel;   Siege;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Army;   Captives;   Commandments, the 613;   Debarim Rabbah;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A gdy przyciągniesz do jakiego miasta, abyś go dobył, tedy z nim będziesz rokował o pokój.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Gdy przyciągniesz do jakiego miasta, abyś go dobywał, poczęstujesz je pokojem.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Gdy podejdziesz pod jakieś miasto, aby walczyć przeciw niemu, to najpierw wezwiesz je do zawarcia pokoju.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zaś kiedy pociągniesz do miasta, by je zdobyć, przedłożysz mu pokój.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Gdy przyciągniesz do jakiego miasta, abyś go dobywał, poczęstujesz je pokojem.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Gdy podejdziesz do jakiegoś miasta, aby je zdobyć, zaoferujesz mu pokój.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

then proclaim: 2 Samuel 20:18-22, Isaiah 57:19, Zechariah 9:10, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Acts 10:36, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21, 2 Corinthians 6:1, Ephesians 2:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - with words Deuteronomy 7:2 - make no Deuteronomy 21:10 - thou goest Joshua 9:15 - made peace Judges 11:12 - sent messengers Judges 20:12 - sent men Judges 21:13 - call peaceably

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,.... This is to be understood of an arbitrary war, as Jarchi observes; which they engaged in of themselves, or were provoked to by their enemies; which was their own choice, and according to their own will and pleasure; and their conduct towards their enemies in it was different from that in a war with the seven nations, commanded by the Lord, and distinguished from it, Deuteronomy 20:15.

then proclaim peace unto it; that is, offer them terms of peace; which were, that the inhabitants of it should renounce idolatry, and become their tributaries and servants.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 20:10. Proclaim peace unto it. — Interpreters are greatly divided concerning the objects of this law. The text, taken in connection with the context, (see Deuteronomy 20:15-18), appears to state that this proclamation or offer of peace to a city is only to be understood of those cities which were situated beyond the limits of the seven anathematized nations, because these latter are commanded to be totally destroyed. Nothing can be clearer than this from the bare letter of the text, unless some of the words, taken separately, can be shown to have a different meaning. For the common interpretation, the following reasons are given.

God, who knows all things, saw that they were incurable in their idolatry; that the cup of their iniquity was full; and as their Creator, Sovereign, and Judge, he determined to destroy them from off the face of the earth, "lest they should teach the Israelites to do after all their abominations," Deuteronomy 20:18. After all, many plausible arguments have been brought to prove that even these seven Canaanitish nations might be received into mercy, provided they,

1. Renounced their idolatry;

2. Became subject to the Jews; and,

3. Paid annual tribute: and that it was only in case these terms were rejected, that they were not to leave alive in such a city any thing that breathed, Deuteronomy 20:16.


 
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