Deuteronomy 20:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to leadd the people. ”

• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The meaning is that the “officers” should then subdivide the levies, and appoint leaders of the smaller divisions thus constituted.

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 20. Laws to be Observed during War. Peculiar to cf. Deuteronomy 21:10-14 (which some attach immediately to ch. 20) and Deuteronomy 23:9-14 ; Deuteronomy 24:5 (see remarks prefixed...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 9. They shall make captains of the armies to lead the people — The captains of the armies shall take an account of the sum of the people. Waterland. In this version the Doctor follows Le...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. They shall make captains of the armies to lead...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Laws of Warfare 1. Horses and chariots] The army of the Israelites was chiefly composed of infantry: see on Deuteronomy 17:16 .

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Captains of the armies — i.e., special leaders for the campaigns, whose command would probably cease when it was over. We may suppose from mention of the “thousands” in the army — “the captain of t...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secula...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  It is necessary to bear in mind that these people were being led into the land not merely to find a possession for themselves as an established nation, but first as the scourge of God against a corru...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The cases here stated of exception, to disqualify from war, seem to have been intended in great mercy, that men of timid minds might find excuse from war, and yet not incur the reproach of their bret...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people ,.... By reciting what the anointed of war said unto them, and by speeches of their own framing, to encourage to the b...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They shall make captains Or rather, as the Hebrew is, they shall set or place the captains of the armies in the head or front of the people under their charge, that they may conduct them, and,...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WARFARE REGULATED BY GOD (vs.1-19) God certainly never did approve the saying, "All's fair in love and war." Rather, God gave explicit instructions to Israel as to how to conduct their warfare. B...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Directions Concerning War; Persons Excused from War. B. C. 1451.       1 When thou goest out t...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Or rather, as the Hebrew hath it, they shall set or place the captains of the armies in the head or front of the people under their charge, that they may conduct and manage them, and by their examp...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Preparation For Battle ( Deuteronomy 20:1-9 ). Israel was on the verge of a holy war, and instructions as to how to face up to such a fact were very necessary. They were not a warlike people, or...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—Reverence for life, and that which tends to preserve it, was the motive for laws given in last chapter. The same is the basis of those in this chapter. Even in time of war, forbeara...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 20:5 . Hath not dedicated it. David composed the xxxth Psalm for the dedication of his new palace. Good men warmed a new house by devotion. Deuteronomy 20:9 . The officers shall mak...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Let him go and return to his house. The exemptions in war Soldiers must be as free from care and cowardice as possible. Wellington declared “that the power of the greatest armies depends upon w...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION DIRECTIONS CONCERNING WARFARE IN GENERAL , AND FOR THE BESIEGING OF CITIES IN PARTICULAR . Deuteronomy 20:1-5 The instructions in this chapter are peculi...

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Selection of Soldiers For a Campaign

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 20:9

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• Deuteronomy 20:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Make captains — Or rather, as the Hebrew hath it, they shall set or place the captains of the armies in the head or front of the people under their charge, that they may conduct them, and by their...

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