Deuteronomy 21:10

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and your God YHWH has given them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

In Context

9and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.

11and have seen a woman of beautiful form in the captivity, and have delighted in her, and have taken [her] to yourself for a wife,

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Cross References

Joshua 21:44and YHWH gives rest to them all around, according to all that which He has sworn to their fathers, and there has not stood a man in their presence of all their enemies, YHWH has given the whole of their enemies into their hand;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10

Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →

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