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When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
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A Law for Specific Wars
Commentators unanimously point out that this law applies to wars against distant nations, not the Canaanite nations whom Israel was commanded to utterly destroy. In those 'commanded' wars, no captives were to be taken. This law governs what one scholar calls 'arbitrary' wars—those fought out of choice or provocation against other enemies.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The regulations which now follow in the rest of this and throughout the next chapter bring out the sanctity of various personal rights and relation…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 21:10–14. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN.
When you ... see among the captives a beautiful wo…
16th Century
Protestant
When you go forth to war. The same thing is now commanded concerning wives as was previously commanded concerning meats. Concerning the Ca…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When you go forth to war against your enemies This refers to an arbitrary war, as Jarchi remarks, which they entered…
By this law, a soldier was allowed to marry his captive if he wished. This might take place on some occasions; but the law does not show any approv…
