[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Deuteronomy Overview]] [[Deuteronomy 19]] [[Deuteronomy 21]] # Deuteronomy 20 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies [[#Verse 01.]] When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops 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. [[#Verse 02.]] As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers, [[#Verse 03.]] “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, [[#Verse 04.]] for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.” [[#Verse 05.]] Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.  [[#Verse 06.]] 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.  [[#Verse 07.]] Or who among you 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.” [[#Verse 08.]] In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.” [[#Verse 09.]] Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops. [[#Verse 10.]] When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.  [[#Verse 11.]] If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. [[#Verse 12.]] If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.  [[#Verse 13.]] The Lord your God will deliver it over to you, and you must kill every single male by the sword.  [[#Verse 14.]] However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city—all its plunder—you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.  [[#Verse 15.]] This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations. ### Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations [[#Verse 16.]] As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.  [[#Verse 17.]] Instead you must utterly annihilate them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded you,  [[#Verse 18.]] so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 19.]] If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!  [[#Verse 20.]] However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes