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Deuteronomy 20:16-18
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http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/2763.htmA primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose -- make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
People should beware. A person needs no sword to be living by the sword.
Shermana
Heretic
Notice that it says "destroy" as one of its uses.
Now are you denying that it can and is used as "Destroy" in several instances of that word? I'm very interested to what you think "put to the sword" means.
Verse and translation please?
Wickedness should be destroyed, don't you think? "Breath" means spirit. To conclude it means kill the people is evil imo.
"Kill" Strong's 5221 If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us. 1 Samuel 17:9
beat, cast forth, clap, give wounds, go forward, indeed, kill, make slaughter,
A primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively) -- beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Very interesting the word for sword comes from root word drought.
The sword is for protection.
Luke 22:36
OK Now you're funny. Dead people working? I think not!
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Interesting. Strong's...lexicon(or perhaps the use if it) is attempting to change history.
The Hebrews were not a barbaric race, but rather a loving race that convinced nations to abandon their lands.
Just cuz.
Uh,no! By the power of God.
Shermana
Heretic
What's funny is your attempt to dodge the subject of the Forced labor for those who surrender.
Shermana
Heretic
Okay, so what then is your interpretation of put them to the sword. Ask God to bring drought on them so they have to move?
You should seriously make a Bible commentary, I think there's a big market for your interpretations.
Levite
Higher and Higher
One more reason not to read the Written Torah in the absence of the Oral Torah: the Rabbis of the Talmud clarify that this meant that when engaged in the Wars of Conquest with the Canaanite tribes, the People Israel were to give their enemies a choice: surrender, remain where they were, but cease practicing idolatry (i.e., become gerei toshav, resident aliens who have formally abjured idolatry and pagan practices); surrender and become gerei tzedek (i.e., converts to Israelite Judaism); leave the land of Canaan with a portion of their livestock and as much property as they could carry with them; or fight to the death. If they chose the last option, the Israelites were then to have no mercy, and to battle them to eradication. If they chose any of the former, the Israelites were to spare their lives, their livestock, and their property, and were not to harm them.
It is also worth noting that the Wars of Conquest were one-time affairs: the only time that we are taught that God has commanded or will command us directly to engage in warfare.
Was it clarification or rationalization, unique insight or eisegesis?
I will accept this as sarcasm. I do know what the writers of anything thought. I am just proving to myself that you do not know either. Nobody knows. Nobody can tell. If you do tell and you are wrong, you are doing what the goats who go off into destruction are doing. It's true.
But not lifting a sword against anyone will not prevent a sword being lifted up toward me.
You will reap what you sow. This is a law before Christ. 'Jesus' did not bring this law with him. If you sow peace, you will reap peace. If you sow war, you will reap war.