Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The priest - Not the high priest, but one appointed for the purpose, and called, according to the rabbis, "the anointed of the war" : hence, perhaps the expression of Jeremiah 6:4, etc. "prepare ye" (literally consecrate) "war." Thus, Phinehas went with the warriors to fight against Midian (Numbers 31:6; compare I Samuel 4:4, I Samuel 4:11; II Chronicles 13:12).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 20:2:
Jeremiah 6:4
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