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A Military Camp, Not All Israel
Commentators like Albert Barnes and Charles Ellicott clarify that this instruction for sanitation applies to temporary military encampments during future campaigns, not the massive camp of the entire nation of Israel in the wilderness. This context is crucial for understanding the command's practicality.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 23:9–14
18th Century
Theologian
The whole passage refers not to the encampments of the nation while passing from Egypt through the wilderness, but to future warlike expeditions se…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 23:9–14
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 23:9–14. PURITY OF THE CAMP.
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies ... keep t…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 23:12
17th Century
Pastor
You shall have also a place without the camp
A place prepared, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, provided on p…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 23:9–14
17th Century
Minister
The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If this care must be taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to ke…