Deuteronomy 20
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When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

goest out

Deuteronomy 3:21,22 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen …

Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go …

horses

Joshua 10:5-8 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, …

Joshua 11:4-6,9 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, …

Judges 4:3-9 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred …

2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …

2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against …

Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …

Psalm 33:16,17 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …

Isaiah 37:24,25 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By …

the Lord

Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: …

Deuteronomy 31:6,8 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: …

Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …

Numbers 23:21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness …

Joshua 1:5,9 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days …

Judges 6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD …

2 Chronicles 32:7,8 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king …

Psalm 46:7,11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah…

Psalm 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin …

Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …

Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through …

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

let not

Psalm 27:1-3 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…

Isaiah 41:10-14 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Matthew 10:16,28,31 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …

Ephesians 6:11-18 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against …

1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that …

Hebrews 12:12,13 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees…

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil …

faint [heb] be tender
tremble [heb] make haste

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation …

be ye terrified

Psalm 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves …

Isaiah 8:12,13 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall …

Isaiah 57:7,8 On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither …

Matthew 8:26 And he said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? …

Mark 16:6,18 And he said to them, Be not affrighted: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, …

Acts 18:9,10 Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, …

Acts 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, see, …

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto …

Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not …

For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

betrothed a wife It was customary among the jews to contract matrimony, espouse, or betroth, and for a considerable time to leave the parties in the houses of the respective parents; and when the bridegroom had made proper preparations, then the bride was brought home to his house, and the marriage consummated. The provisions in this verse refer to a case of this kind; though the Jews extend it to him who had newly consummated his marriage, and even to him who had married his brother's wife. It was deemed a peculiar hardship for a person to be obliged to go to battle, who had left a house unfinished, newly purchased land half tilled, or a wife with whom he had just contracted marriage.

Deuteronomy 22:23-25 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man …

Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither …

Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother …

lest he die

Deuteronomy 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you …

Luke 14:18-20 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said …

2 Timothy 2:4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; …

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

to lead the people [heb] to be in the head of the people

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

thou shalt not

Matthew 3:10 And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every …

Matthew 7:15-20 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, …

Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing …

Luke 13:7-9 Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three …

John 15:2-8 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every …

for the tree, etc. or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege. The original is exceedingly difficult. The LXX. has it, `Is the tree in the field a man, to enter the trench before thee?' The Latin Vulgate:`For it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of those who war against thee;' Onkelos, `For the tree of the field is not as a man, that it should come against thee in the siege;' and to the same purpose the Arabic, Philo, and Josephus who say, `If trees could speak, they would cry out, that it is unjust that they, who were no cause of the war, should suffer the miseries of it.' However rendered, the sense is sufficiently clear: and it is a merciful provision to spare all the fruit trees for the support of both the besieged and besiegers.

Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid on …

to employ, etc. [heb] to go from before thee

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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