Deuteronomy 2:32

2:32 When Sihon and all his troops ¹  emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz, ² 

Deuteronomy 2:16

Instructions Concerning Ammon

2:16 So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community, ³ 

Deuteronomy 20:2

20:2 As you move forward for battle, the priest ⁴  will approach and say to the soldiers, ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 20:12

20:12 If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

Deuteronomy 21:10

Laws Concerning Wives

21:10 When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail ⁶  and you take prisoners,

Deuteronomy 3:1

Defeat of King Og of Bashan

3:1 Next we set out on ⁷  the route to Bashan, ⁸  but King Og of Bashan and his whole army ⁹  came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 20:6-7

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you ¹¹  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 29:7

29:7 When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

Deuteronomy 1:41

Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan

1:41 Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

Deuteronomy 2:9

2:9 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar ¹²  to the descendants of Lot ¹³  as their possession.

Deuteronomy 2:14

2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Deuteronomy 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, ¹⁴  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Deuteronomy 4:34

4:34 Or has God ¹⁵  ever before tried to deliver ¹⁶  a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, ¹⁷  signs, wonders, war, strength, power, ¹⁸  and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ¹⁹  and troops ²⁰  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 20:3

20:3 “Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ²¹  “Who among you ²²  has built a new house and not dedicated ²³  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ²⁴  dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ²⁵  and you may use it to build siege works ²⁶  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

[2:32]  ¹ tn Heb “people.”

[2:32]  ² sn Jahaz. This is probably Khirbet el-Medeiyineh. See J. Dearman, “The Levitical Cities of Reuben and Moabite Toponymy,” BASOR 276 (1984): 55-57.

[2:16]  ³ tn Heb “and it was when they were eliminated, all the men of war, to die from the midst of the people.”

[20:2]  ⁵ sn The reference to the priest suggests also the presence of the ark of the covenant, the visible sign of God’s presence. The whole setting is clearly that of “holy war” or “Yahweh war,” in which God himself takes initiative as the true commander of the forces of Israel (cf. Exod 14:14-18; 15:3-10; Deut 3:22; 7:18-24; 31:6, 8).

[20:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he will say to the people.” Cf. NIV, NCV, CEV “the army”; NRSV, NLT “the troops.”

[21:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “gives him into your hands.”

[3:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “turned and went up.”

[3:1]  ¹⁰ sn Bashan. This plateau country, famous for its oaks (Isa 2:13) and cattle (Deut 32:14; Amos 4:1), was north of Gilead along the Yarmuk River.

[3:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “people.”

[3:1]  ¹² sn Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31; also mentioned in Deut 1:4).

[20:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

[2:9]  ¹³ sn Ar was a Moabite city on the Arnon River east of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned elsewhere in the “Book of the Wars of Yahweh” (Num 21:15; cf. 21:28; Isa 15:1). Here it is synonymous with the whole land of Moab.

[2:9]  ¹⁴ sn The descendants of Lot. Following the destruction of the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, as God’s judgment, Lot fathered two sons by his two daughters, namely, Moab and Ammon (Gen 19:30-38). Thus, these descendants of Lot in and around Ar were the Moabites.

[2:24]  ¹⁵ sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

[4:34]  ¹⁷ tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).

[4:34]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”

[4:34]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).

[4:34]  ²⁰ tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”

[20:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

[20:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “people.”

[20:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

[20:5]  ²² tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

[20:5]  ²³ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

[20:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “another man.”

[20:20]  ²³ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

[20:20]  ²⁴ tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.