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Deuteronomy 20:8-20

20:8

And the officers
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shall speak
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further
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unto the people
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and they shall say
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What man
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[is there that is] fearful
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and fainthearted
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let him go
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and return
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unto his house
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lest his brethren's
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heart
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faint
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as well as his heart
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{faint: Heb. melt}

20:9

And it shall be, when the officers
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have made an end
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of speaking
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unto the people
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that they shall make
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captains
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of the armies
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to lead
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the people
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{to lead...: Heb. to be in the head of the people}

20:10

When thou comest nigh
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unto a city
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to fight
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against it, then proclaim
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peace
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unto it.

20:11

And it shall be, if it make thee answer
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of peace
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and open
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unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people
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[that is] found
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therein shall be tributaries
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unto thee, and they shall serve
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thee.

20:12

And if it will make no peace
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with thee, but will make
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war
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against thee, then thou shalt besiege
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it:

20:13

And when the LORD
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thy God
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hath delivered
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it into thine hands
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thou shalt smite
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every male
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thereof with the edge
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of the sword
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20:14

But the women
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and the little ones
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and the cattle
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and all that is in the city
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[even] all the spoil
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thereof, shalt thou take
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unto thyself; and thou shalt eat
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the spoil
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of thine enemies
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which the LORD
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thy God
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hath given
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thee. {take: Heb. spoil}

20:15

Thus shalt thou do
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unto all the cities
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[which are] very
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far off
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from thee, which
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[are] not of the cities
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of these nations
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20:16

But of the cities
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of these people
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which the LORD
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thy God
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doth give
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thee [for] an inheritance
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thou shalt save alive
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nothing that breatheth
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20:17

But thou shalt utterly
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destroy
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them; [namely], the Hittites
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and the Amorites
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the Canaanites
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and the Perizzites
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the Hivites
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and the Jebusites
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as the LORD
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thy God
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hath commanded
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thee:

20:18

That they teach
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you not to do
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after all their abominations
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which they have done
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unto their gods
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so should ye sin
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against the LORD
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your God
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20:19

When thou shalt besiege
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a city
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a long
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time
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in making war
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against it to take
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it, thou shalt not destroy
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the trees
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thereof by forcing
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an axe
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against them: for thou mayest eat
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of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
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(for the tree
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of the field
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[is] man's
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[life]) to employ
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[them] in the siege
<06440> <04692>_:

{for the...: or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege} {to employ...: Heb. to go from before thee}

20:20

Only the trees
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which thou knowest
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that they [be] not trees
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for meat
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thou shalt destroy
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and cut them down
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and thou shalt build
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bulwarks
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against the city
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that maketh
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war
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with thee, until it be subdued
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{it...: Heb. it come down}