NITHYAM SONGSDeuteronomy 20
World English Bible (WEB) • 20 verses
1When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
Related2 Chronicles 32:7-8 · Deuteronomy 31:8 · Psalms 20:7 · Deuteronomy 31:6 · Romans 8:31 · Isaiah 43:2
2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
Related2 Chronicles 13:12 · Numbers 31:6 · Numbers 10:8-9 · 1 Samuel 30:7-8 · Judges 20:27-28 · 1 Samuel 14:18
3and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
4for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
RelatedExodus 14:14 · Deuteronomy 3:22 · Deuteronomy 1:30 · Joshua 23:10 · Deuteronomy 11:25 · Romans 8:37
5The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
RelatedNehemiah 12:27 · Numbers 31:48 · Deuteronomy 1:15 · 1 Samuel 17:18 · Deuteronomy 16:18 · Numbers 31:14
6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
7What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 24:5 · Deuteronomy 28:30 · 2 Timothy 2:4 · Deuteronomy 22:23-25 · Luke 14:18-20 · Matthew 1:18
8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
RelatedJudges 7:3 · Revelation 21:8 · Deuteronomy 1:28 · Acts 15:37-38 · Luke 9:62 · Deuteronomy 23:9
9It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
RelatedLuke 10:5-6 · 2 Corinthians 5:18-6:1 · Ephesians 2:17 · Zechariah 9:10 · Acts 10:36 · Isaiah 57:19
11It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
RelatedJoshua 9:22-23 · 1 Kings 9:21-22 · Leviticus 25:42-46 · Judges 1:30-35 · Joshua 11:19-20 · Joshua 9:27
12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
RelatedPsalms 2:6-12 · Numbers 31:7-9 · 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 · Psalms 21:8-9 · Luke 19:27 · Numbers 31:17-18
14but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
RelatedJoshua 11:14 · Numbers 21:2-3 · Joshua 6:17-21 · Deuteronomy 7:16 · Deuteronomy 7:1-4 · Joshua 10:40
17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you;
RelatedIsaiah 34:5-6 · Jeremiah 50:35-40 · Deuteronomy 7:1-2 · Jeremiah 48:10 · Ezekiel 38:21-23 · Revelation 19:18
18that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:30-31 · Exodus 23:33 · Ephesians 5:11 · 1 Corinthians 15:33 · 2 Corinthians 6:17 · Exodus 34:16
19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
RelatedMatthew 3:10 · Matthew 21:19 · Luke 13:7-9 · John 15:2-8 · Matthew 7:15-20 · Deuteronomy 26:6
20Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
RelatedIsaiah 37:33 · Jeremiah 6:6 · Deuteronomy 1:28 · Ecclesiastes 9:14 · Ezekiel 17:17 · Jeremiah 33:4
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