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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.
- 2
- And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,
that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
- 3
- 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;
- 4
- For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to
fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
- 5
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 8
- 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.
- 9
- 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.
- 10
- When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,
then proclaim peace unto it.
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- 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.
- 12
- And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make
war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
- 13
- And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine
hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
- 14
- 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.
- 15
- Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very
far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- 16
- 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:
- 17
- 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:
- 18
- 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.
- 19
- 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:
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- 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.
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