Deuteronomy 20:8
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted ? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
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Gill's Exposition
And the officers shall speak further unto the people,.... According to Maimonides (n), the priest the anointed of war spoke to the end of Deu 20:7 and which the officers repeated after him to the…
Israel was at this time to be considered rather as a camp than as a kingdom, entering upon an enemy's country, and not yet settled in a country of their own; and, besides the war they were now…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
shall speak further The change in the formula is no proof that this is a later addition to the law (as Steuern. avers).
fearful and fainthearted It is true that such were also supposed to be possessed…
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