Deuteronomy 24:21

24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; ¹  they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Deuteronomy 3:5

3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ²  in addition there were a great many open villages. ³ 

Deuteronomy 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 1:28

1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ⁵  by describing people who are more numerous ⁶  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ⁷  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ⁸  Anakites ⁹  there.”

Deuteronomy 28:52

28:52 They will besiege all of your villages ¹⁰  until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

[24:21]  ¹ tn Heb “glean after you.”

[3:5]  ² tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.

[3:5]  ³ tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

[9:1]  ³ tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[1:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

[1:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

[1:28]  ⁶ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[1:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “we have seen.”

[1:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

[28:52]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.