Ulangan 20:5
Konteks20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, 1 “Who among you 2 has built a new house and not dedicated 3 it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else 4 dedicate it.
Ulangan 24:19
Konteks24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, 5 you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. 6
[20:5] 1 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
[20:5] 2 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
[20:5] 3 tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).
[20:5] 4 tn Heb “another man.”
[24:19] 5 tn Heb “in the field.”
[24:19] 6 tn Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:1-13).