Deuteronomy 21:10

When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

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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

9So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord.

11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

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Cross References

Joshua 21:44The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. The Lord delivered all 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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