Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 20:13
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
13. when the Lord thy God delivereth it ] As to this D has no doubt.
thou shalt smite, etc.] See on Deu 2:34.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A just punishment of their obstinate refusal of peace offered.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,…. When, what with pressures without, and calamities within, the city is obliged to surrender: this is not to be imputed to the methods and arts of war used in besieging, or to the courage and skill of the besiegers; but to the power and providence of God succeeding means used, and sending famine or pestilence among the besieged, and inclining their hearts to deliver up their city:
thou shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; the men in it, grown persons, as distinguished from little ones in the next verse; because it was owing to these it was not surrendered at once, when terms of peace were offered.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Is not this total destruction of the enemies of the church, a lively emblem of the everlasting overthrow of the ungodly in the day of GOD’S vengeance? 2Th 1:7-9 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Deu 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Ver. 13. Thou shalt smite every male thereof. ] Let them pay for their pervicacy. So Caesar answered the Adviatici, that he would have spared their city if they had yielded before he had assaulted. a And so the Duke of Alva much blamed Prosper Columnus, for receiving a castle upon condition after he had beaten it with the cannon. b Howbeit in the Lord Protector’s expedition into Scotland in the reign of Edward VI, one castle, when they understood they were not able to hold out, and that their obstinacy had excluded all hope of pardon, they made petition that they might not presently be slain, but have some time to recommend their souls to God, and afterwards be hanged. This respite being first obtained, their pardon did the more easily ensue. c
a Si priusquam aries murum attegisset se dedissent. – Coes. II. Gallic.
b Connestab VI.
c Life of Edward VI., by Sir John Heywood.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thou shalt smite: Num 31:7-9, Num 31:17, Num 31:18, 1Ki 11:15, 1Ki 11:16, Psa 2:6-12, Psa 21:8, Psa 21:9, Psa 110:1, Luk 19:27, 2Th 1:7-9
Reciprocal: Num 31:15 – General