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<p class="tab-1">This chapter settles the militia, and establishes the laws and ordinances of war, I. Relating to the soldiers. 1. Those must be encouraged that were drawn up to battle, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.1-Deut.20.4" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.1-Deut.20.4">Deut. 20:1-4</a>. 2. Those must be dismissed and sent back again whose private affairs called for their attendance at home (<a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.5-Deut.20.7" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.5-Deut.20.7">Deut. 20:5-7</a>), or whose weakness and timidity unfitted them for service in the field, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.8,Deut.20.9" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.8,Deut.20.9"><span class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.8">Deut. 20:8</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.9">9</span></a>. II. Relating to the enemies they made war with. 1. The treaties they must make with the cities that were far off, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.10-Deut.20.15" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.10-Deut.20.15">Deut. 20:10-15</a>. 2. The destruction they must make of the people into whose land they were going, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.16-Deut.20.18" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.16-Deut.20.18">Deut. 20:16-18</a>. 3. The care they must take, in besieging cities, not to destroy the fruit-trees, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.19,Deut.20.20" href="/passage/?search=Deut.20.19,Deut.20.20"><span class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.19">Deut. 20:19</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Deut.20.20">20</span></a>.</p>
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