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20 “Kon maglakat gani kamo sa pagpakig-away sa inyo mga kaaway, kag makita ninyo ang ila mga kabayo, mga karwahe kag mga soldado nga mas madamo pa sang sa inyo, indi kamo magkahadlok sa ila, kay kaupod ninyo ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios nga nagpaguwa sa inyo sa Egipto. Antes kamo magkadto sa inaway magtindog anay sa tunga ang pari kag magsiling sa mga soldado, ‘Pamati kamo, O katawhan sang Israel. Indi kamo magkahadlok sa inyo pagpakig-away subong. Magpakaisog kamo kag indi kamo magsinalasala. Kay ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios magaupod sa inyo! Magapakig-away siya para sa inyo kontra sa inyo mga kaaway kag padag-on niya kamo!’

“Dayon masiling ang mga opisyal sa mga soldado, ‘Kon may ara sa inyo nga bag-o lang nakapatindog sang iya balay kag wala pa niya ini madedikar sa Ginoo, magpauli siya kay basi bala mapatay siya sa inaway kag ang iban nga tawo ang magdedikar sang iya balay. Kon may ara sa inyo nga nakatanom sang ubas kag wala pa siya makapulos sang bunga sini, magpauli siya kay basi bala mapatay siya sa inaway kag ang iban nga tawo ang magapulos sini. Kon may ara sa inyo nga kalaslon, magpauli siya kay basi bala mapatay siya sa inaway kag ang iban nga tawo ang magpangasawa sang iya palangasaw-on.’

“Masiling pa gid ang mga opisyal, ‘Kon may ara sa inyo nga nahadlok ukon nakulbaan, magpauli siya kay basi pati ang iya mga kaupod makulbaan man.’ Kon makatapos na ang mga opisyal sa paghambal sa mga soldado, magpili dayon sila sang mga kumander sa pagpangulo sa mga soldado.

10 “Kon magsalakay kamo sa isa ka banwa, hatagi anay ninyo ang mga pumuluyo sang kahigayunan nga magsurender. 11 Kon magsurender sila kag abrihan nila para sa inyo ang puwertahan sang ila banwa, himuon ninyo sila tanan nga mga ulipon kag paobrahon ninyo sila para sa inyo sa gusto man nila ukon indi. 12 Pero kon indi gani sila magsurender kundi magpakig-away sila sa inyo, salakaya ninyo sila. 13 Kon itugyan na sila sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios, pamatyon ninyo ang tanan nila nga mga lalaki. 14 Pero puwede ninyo bihagon ang mga babayi, ang mga kabataan, kag ang mga kasapatan, kag puwede ninyo kuhaon ang tanan nga pagkabutang nga ara sa sina nga banwa. Gamita ninyo ini nga mga butang nga ginhatag sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios halin sa inyo mga kaaway. 15 Himuon lang ninyo ini sa mga banwa nga malayo kag indi bahin sang duta nga pagasakupon ninyo. 16 Pero sa mga banwa nga ginahatag sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios bilang palanublion ninyo, pamatyon gid ninyo ang tanan. 17 Laglagon ninyo sing bug-os[a] ang mga Hithanon, ang mga Amornon, ang mga Canaanhon, ang mga Periznon, ang mga Hivhanon, kag ang mga Jebusnon, suno sa ginsugo sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios. 18 Kay kon indi, tudluan nila kamo sang tanan nga makangilil-ad nga mga buhat nga ila ginahimo sa ila pagsimba sa ila mga dios, kag tungod sini makasala kamo sa Ginoo nga inyo Dios. 19 Kon ang inyo pagsalakay sa isa ka banwa madugay, indi ninyo pagpanapson ang mga kahoy. Kauna ninyo ang mga bunga sini pero indi ninyo pagpanapson. Kay indi sila mga kaaway nga inyo laglagon. 20 Pero puwede ninyo tapson ang mga kahoy nga ang bunga sini indi puwede makaon, kag gamiton ninyo ini sa inyo pagkibon sa banwa hasta nga maagaw ninyo ini.

Footnotes

  1. 20:17 Laglagon ninyo sing bug-os: Ang Hebreo nga pulong sini nagakahulugan sang mga gintugyan sa Ginoo paagi sa paghalad ukon paglaglag sini.

Going to War

20 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours,(A) do not be afraid(B) of them,(C) because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with(D) you. When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted(E) or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you(F) to fight(G) for you against your enemies to give you victory.(H)

The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in(I) it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it. Has anyone planted(J) a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it?(K) Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.(L) Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.”(M) When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.(N) 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject(O) to forced labor(P) and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.(Q) 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock(R) and everything else in the city,(S) you may take these as plunder(T) for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance(U) from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.(V) 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods,(W) and you will sin(X) against the Lord your God.

19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?[b] 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees(Y) and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
  2. Deuteronomy 20:19 Or down to use in the siege, for the fruit trees are for the benefit of people.

20 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

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.

10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

16 But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.