The Lord’s instruction is in keeping with a principle given in Deuteronomy 20:8, which has a military logic attached to it: let the fearful and fainthearted go back to his house, “lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.”
The Lord’s instruction is in keeping with a principle given in Deuteronomy 20:8, which has a military logic attached to it: let the fearful and fainthearted go back to his house, “lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.”
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.