Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:17 
Context1:17 They 1 must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly 2 and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.
Deuteronomy 20:5
Context20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, 3 “Who among you 4 has built a new house and not dedicated 5 it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else 6 dedicate it.
1 tn Heb “you,” and throughout the verse (cf. NASB, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “the small,” but referring to social status, not physical stature.
3 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
4 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
5 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).
6 tn Heb “another man.”
