Deuteronomy 20:5
5Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ▼ “Who among you ▼ has built a new house and not dedicated ▼▼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 (חֲנֻכָּה, khanukkah) 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).
it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ▼▼tn Heb “another man.”
dedicate it.
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