Context 12However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. 14Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. 15Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby. 16Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. 17But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God. 19When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? 20Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionAnd if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: Douay-Rheims Bible But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it. Darby Bible Translation And if it will not make peace with thee, but will make war with thee, then thou shalt besiege it; English Revised Version And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: Webster's Bible Translation And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: World English Bible If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: Young's Literal Translation 'And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it, Library 'Fit, Though Few''Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Sharon. Caphar Lodim. The Village of those of Lydda. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Deuteronomy Links Deuteronomy 20:12 NIV • Deuteronomy 20:12 NLT • Deuteronomy 20:12 ESV • Deuteronomy 20:12 NASB • Deuteronomy 20:12 KJV • Deuteronomy 20:12 Bible Apps • Deuteronomy 20:12 Parallel • Bible Hub |