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NASB | Deuteronomy 21:10 ¶ "When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 21:10 ¶ "When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you lead them away captive, |
Subject: Which Enemies Could Israel Marry? |
Bible Note: John I am hearing clearly what you are saying, that it must be Iraelites Moses was speaking about them marrying because he already said not to. What that leaves me trying to understand about the text is who the enemies were? Israelites, to my knowledge had no enemies amongst themselves at this point that I can tell from reading Numbers through Deuteronomy. That only leaves the pagans? I could be really wrong here. The peace terms thing - Deuteronomy 20:10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. Deuteronomy 7:2-4 and when the Lord God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. Etc. Deuteronomy 7:16 - consume your enemies do not pity them, do not serve their gods, etc. Deuteronomy 7:14, 15 take the women and children as spoils as booty of your enemies - do this to all the cities that are very far which are not cities of these nations nearby. 20:16 Only 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. Perhaps the difference is of which type of enemy? The fist type of enemy being those who you could make a treaty with and marry because they are "far away" and not one of the nations being given as the "inheritance to Israel"? The second type of enemy being those who are in nations that are "the inhereitance to Israel" - and these utterly destroy? I just caught that, literaly, in going to quote for you about that peace treaty! Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |