Deuteronomy 20

^{1 !} The exhortacion of the Priest when the Israelites go to battel.

^{1 a} Meaning vpon juste occasion: for God permitteth not his people to fight when it semeth good to them.

^{4 b} Is present to defend you with his grace and power.

^{5 c} For when thei entred first to dwel in an house, they gaue thenkes to God, acknowledging that they had that benefit by his grace.

^{5 !} The exhortacion of the officers shewing who shulde go to battel.

^{6 d} The Ebrewe worde signifieth to make commune or profane, {Leu. 19:25}.

^{10 e} If it accept peace.

^{10 !} Peace must first be proclaimed.

^{15 f} For god had appointed that the Canaanites shulde be destroyed, & made the Israelites executors of his wil. {Chap. 7,1}.

^{19 g} Some read, For man shalbe in steade of the tre of the field, to come out in the siege against thee.

^{19 !} The trees that beare frute, must not be destroyed.