Deuteronomy 20:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.

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  • Neh 12:27 : 27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.
  • Num 31:14 : 14 And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
  • Num 31:48 : 48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,
  • Deut 1:15 : 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
  • 1 Sam 17:18 : 18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.
  • Ps 30:1 : 1 <A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

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  • Deut 20:6-13
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    6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

    7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

    8 And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.

    9 Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.

    10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.

    11 And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

    12 If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

  • 5 A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

  • 8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

  • Deut 20:1-4
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    1 When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

    2 And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,

    3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

    4 For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

  • 19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

  • 44 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:

  • 34 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayers to you turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have put up for your name:

  • 10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • 10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • 12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

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    19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

    20 Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

  • 27 From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

  • 15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

  • 7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • 5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

  • 20 Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • 1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • 10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

  • 4 A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

  • Lev 27:14-15
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    14 And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed.

    15 And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.

  • 30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • 19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

  • Deut 12:9-10
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    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

    10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;

  • 27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Deut 3:18-20
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    18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

    19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

    20 Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

  • 3 But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

  • 23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

  • 5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

  • Num 31:27-28
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    27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

    28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:

  • 18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

  • 13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • 10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

  • 26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • 3 You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.