Ulangan 20:12

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Tetapi apabila kota itu tidak mau berdamai dengan engkau, melainkan mengadakan pertempuran melawan engkau, maka haruslah engkau mengepungnya;

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Tetapi apabila kota itu tidak mau berdamai dengan engkau, melainkan mengadakan pertempuran melawan engkau, maka haruslah engkau mengepungnya;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi jikalau tiada ia berdamai dengan kamu demikian, melainkan ia hendak berperang juga dengan kamu maka hendaklah kamu mengepungi dia rapat-rapat.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if it will make no peace with thee,.... Will not accept of terms of peace offered:

but will make war against thee; come out and fight, or prepare to defend themselves: then thou shall besiege it; surround and block it up on all sides with their forces; the Jews say only on three sides, leaving one for any to flee and make their escape if they thought fit;

:-.

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.