War, wickedness, wives and wayward children
- The pre-battle encouragement to faith (20:1-4)
- Draft exemptions (20:5-9)
- Peace or destruction (20:10-18)
- Save the trees (20:19-20)
- Unsolved murders (21:1-9)
- To take a wife – literally (21:10-14)
- Polygamy and the estate (21:15-17)
- An incorrigible son (21:18-21)
- The curse of hanging (21:22-23)
Meditation Points:
- Fear not, for the Lord your God is with you (20:1).
- The soldier cannot be thinking about his new home, his new business or his new wife when he’s facing the enemy.
- Distant enemies should be avoided if possible; but near enemies cannot be tolerated. Pick your battles.
- Food trees had more future value than lumber trees.
- Society is held accountable for wrongful deaths.
- The foreign bride must be treated with respect.
- Is it ever possible for man to love two people equally?
- Parents must not deny the obvious recalcitrance of their children.
- The Romans might leave a man hanging and suffering on a cross for days; but Jesus, once dead, was taken down from the cross.
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