Deuteronomy 20:10
New International Version
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

New Living Translation
“As you approach a town to attack it, you must first offer its people terms for peace.

English Standard Version
“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

Berean Standard Bible
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

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

New King James Version
“When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it.

New American Standard Bible
“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

NASB 1995
“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

NASB 1977
“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

Legacy Standard Bible
“If you come near a city to fight against it, you shall call for terms of peace.

Amplified Bible
“When you advance to a city to fight against it, you shall [first] offer it terms of peace.

Christian Standard Bible
“When you approach a city to fight against it, make an offer of peace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.

American Standard Version
When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when you approach to a town to fight against it, proclaim peace upon it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if thou shalt draw nigh to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace.

English Revised Version
When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When you approach a city to attack it, offer its people a peaceful way to surrender.

Good News Translation
"When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.

International Standard Version
"When you approach a city to wage war against it, extend terms of peace.

JPS Tanakh 1917
When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

Literal Standard Version
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you have called to it for peace,

Majority Standard Bible
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

New American Bible
When you draw near a city to attack it, offer it terms of peace.

NET Bible
When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

New Revised Standard Version
When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.

New Heart English Bible
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Webster's Bible Translation
When thou comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

World English Bible
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Young's Literal Translation
'When thou drawest near unto a city to fight against it, then thou hast called unto it for Peace,

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Context
Laws of Warfare
9When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it. 10When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace. 11If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:9
When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.

Deuteronomy 20:11
If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

Judges 21:13
Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

2 Samuel 20:19
I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD's inheritance?"


Treasury of Scripture

When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

then proclaim

2 Samuel 20:18-22
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter

Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

Zechariah 9:10
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 20
1. The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle
5. The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war
10. How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace
16. What cities must be devoted
19. Trees must not be destroyed in the siege














Deuteronomy 20:10-20. SIEGES.

(10) When thou comest nigh . . . proclaim peace.--Not as the children of Dan did, who massacred the inhabitants of Laish without warning (Judges 18:27-28). Even in the wars of Joshua, the cities that "stood still in their strength" were generally spared (Joshua 11:13).

(15) Thus--i.e., sparing the women and the little ones.

(16-18) But of the cities of these people . . . thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth . . . that they teach you not to do after all their abominations.--Upon the inhabitants of these cities the Israelites executed the sentence of Jehovah. Their abominations are sufficiently indicated in Leviticus 18:24-28; Leviticus 20:23. . . .

Verses 10-20. - Directions concerning the besieging of towns. In the case of a town at a distance, not belonging to any of the Canaanitish tribes, on advancing against it they were first of all to summon the inhabitants to a peaceable surrender and submission (cf. Judges 21:13). If this was complied with, the inhabitants were to become tributary to the Israelites and serve them; but if this was refused, the town was to be besieged, and, when taken, all the males were to be slain, and the women and children, as well as all the booty that was in the place, were to be taken as the prey of the conquerors, who were to appropriate the spoil to their own use. Verse 10. - Then proclaim peace unto it; i.e. invite it peaceably to surrender.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you approach
תִקְרַ֣ב (ṯiq·raḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

a city
עִ֔יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

to fight
לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם (lə·hil·lā·ḥêm)
Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

against it,
עָלֶ֑יהָ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

you are to make an offer
וְקָרָ֥אתָ (wə·qā·rā·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

of peace.
לְשָׁלֽוֹם׃ (lə·šā·lō·wm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace


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