Deuteronomy 20:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deuteronomy 20:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 2:6-12
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. …
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, …
Numbers 31:7-9
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. …
Psalms 110:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luke 19:27
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-20)

They are here directed what method to take in dealing with the cities (these only are mentioned, Deut. 20:10; but doubtless the armies in the field, and the nations they had occasion to deal with, are likewise intended) upon which they made war. They must not make a descent upon any of their neighbours till they had first given them fair notice, by a public manifesto, or remonstrance, stating the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

10-20. When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it--An important principle is here introduced into the war law of Israel regarding the people they fought against and the cities they besieged. With “the cities of those people which God doth give thee” in Canaan, it was to be a war of utter extermination (De 20:17, 18). But when on a just occasion, they went ag…