Deuteronomy 20

Verse 27.

A most similar construction occurs, Deuteronomy 20, verse 5, etc.

Also Genesis 27 verse 12, Matthew 5 verse 25, chapter 26 verse 53, chapter 27 verse 64, Romans 9 verses 25, 26 and 35 Also Mark 5 verse 23 at the end of the verse, Luke 13 verse 25, chapter 18 verse 7, John 12 verse 35 twenty eight to the sons of men ordinary sins are the sins of man but blasphemy against the holy spirit is the sin of satan the omission of the article in some editions gives great force to the language Verse 29.

EONIU AMARDIAS.

Let me end on a positive note here.

Deuteronomy 20.

It says, when you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and the army larger than your own, like the Chaldeans we were just talking about.

This is what God says.

The, the Old Testament has a variety of profiles, basic anthropological profiles or conceptions of agency.

So in certain texts, uh, you have the idea that to, to embody yira or fear is just a natural function of the human heart, right? Uh, I can list off texts like Deuteronomy 20 verse one seems to assume this, Isaiah 7:3-4, Psalm 27, and so forth.

You have other texts that get more explicitly into agency, I think, uh, where you have the idea that, um, the human heart properly regulated by a human being will generate, um, uh, fear, right? So, uh, it basically requires, um, uh, certain types of effort, whether that's disciplining the passions, whether that's, you know, um, gaining wisdom and growing in wisdom, something along these lines.

Sometimes this is the kind of agency that allows fear to, to, uh, to emerge, right? Uh, whereas other texts have a much more limited idea of human agency, that, that human beings aren't really good at, uh, uh, conducting themselves in the ways that would properly generate fear of God, right? Uh, and so you have to have a divinely regulated heart, uh-

We're going to harem these seven Canaanite nations.

Deuteronomy 20 gives some more.

It's interesting that in Deuteronomy 20, cities outside the land are allowed to go into a peace negotiation with Israel.

They're allowed to negotiate a treaty.

But cities or polities in the land of Canaan, they are told to be haremmed by the Israelites, right? And that includes killing the men, women, and children, taking the goods, all that kind of stuff.

This is where we get the language that Israel is told to leave nothing alive that breeds in the land of Canaan.

That's there in Deuteronomy 20.

That's pretty

Which is one reason just war theorists will say is a right to intervene in another nation, to prevent that kind of bloodshed or genocide.

And then on the other hand, on crusade, in Deuteronomy 20:16-18, crusade one time in Scripture is commanded.

As Israel goes into the promised land, they are to completely devote to destruction the nations who are there.

The problem with both views is they like those passages, but they don't look at others.

Those are harsh words.

In verse 13, "They ripped open pregnant women that they may enlarge their borders." They ripped open pregnant women that they may enlarge their borders.

War for conquest is never authorized in Scripture outside of Deuteronomy 20.

And then finally, in chapter two, "They burned to lime the bones of a neighboring king." So you have, like, this sacrilege that's there, too.

and yet they're referenced beyond Genesis 6.

Genesis 6 is really kind of the main area of debate, but they're mentioned in Numbers 13, Deuteronomy 2, Deuteronomy 20 as well.

We see a reference of giants and Goliath being descendants of...

These types of larger-than-life characters.