DE-20:1  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.

DE-20:2  And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, 
that the

priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

DE-20:3  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;

DE-20:4  For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to 
fight for you

against your enemies, to save you.

DE-20:5  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.

DE-20:6  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.

DE-20:7  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.

DE-20:8  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.

DE-20:9  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.

DE-20:10  When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, 
then proclaim

peace unto it.

DE-20:11  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.

DE-20:12  And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make 
war against

thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

DE-20:13  And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine 
hands, thou

shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

DE-20:14  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.

DE-20:15  Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] 
very far off from

thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.

DE-20:16  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:

DE-20:17  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:

DE-20:18  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.

DE-20:19  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 ax 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:

DE-20:20  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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