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Deuteronomy 20:3-5
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Deuteronomy 20:3-5
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3 “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, 4 for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”[a] 5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops,[b] “Who among you[c] has built a new house and not dedicated[d] it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else[e] dedicate it.
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- Deuteronomy 20:4 tn Or “to save you” (so KJV, NASB, NCV); or “to deliver you.”
- Deuteronomy 20:5 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
- Deuteronomy 20:5 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
- Deuteronomy 20:5 tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חֲנֻכָּה, khanukkah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).
- Deuteronomy 20:5 tn Heb “another man.”
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