📜WEB · Deuteronomy 20:10
What does Deuteronomy 20:10 mean?
"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it."
— Deuteronomy 20:10 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
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Biblical perspective
What does 10:10 mean in the Bible?
John 10:10 is one of the most well-known verses in the New Testament — and it's genuinely worth reading whether or not you found it through a number search.
Jesus says "I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly" — a direct statement about purpose, life, and the difference between what destroys and what gives life.
John 10:10
"The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly."
Psalm 10:17
"Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear."
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