Introduction
Directions concerning campaigns, Deuteronomy 20:1 . The priest shall encourage the people with the assurance that God will accompany and fight for them, Deuteronomy 20:2-4 . The officers shalt dismiss from the army all who had just built a new house, but had not dedicated it, Deuteronomy 20:5 . All who had planted a vineyard, but had not yet eaten of its fruits, Deuteronomy 20:6 . All who had betrothed a wife, but had not brought her home, Deuteronomy 20:7 . And all who were timid and faint-hearted, Deuteronomy 20:8 . The commanders to be chosen after the timid, etc., had retired, Deuteronomy 20:9 . No city to be attacked till they had proclaimed conditions of peace to it, provided it be a city beyond the bounds of the seven Canaanitish nations; if it submitted, it was to become tributary; if not, it was to be besieged, sacked, and all the males put to the sword; the women, children, and cattle to be taken as booty, Deuteronomy 20:10-15 . No such offers to be made to the cities of the Canaanites; of them nothing shall be preserved, and the reason, Deuteronomy 20:16-18 . In besieging a city no trees to be cut down but those which do not bear fruit, Deuteronomy 20:19 , Deuteronomy 20:20 .
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