Deuteronomy 20:11
Context| NETBible | If it accepts your terms 1 and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. 2 |
| XREF | Le 25:42-46; Jos 9:22,23,27; Jos 11:19,20; Jos 16:10; Jud 1:28,30-35; 1Ki 9:21,22; Ps 120:7; Lu 19:14 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “if it answers you peace.” 2 tn Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves (מַס, mas) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude (Josh 9:3-27; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13; Judg 1:28, 30-35; Isa 31:8; Lam 1:1). |
