These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Deuteronomy 20
Tanakh 20 verses
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When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for thy is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of .
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2 Chronicles 32:7-8 Psalm 20:7 Deuteronomy 31:8 Deuteronomy 31:6 Isaiah 31:1 Romans 8:31 Isaiah 8:9-10 Isaiah 7:14 Psalm 46:11 Joshua 1:9 Judges 6:12 2 Chronicles 14:11 Psalm 33:16-17 Joshua 1:5 Deuteronomy 3:21-22 Psalm 118:6 Isaiah 43:2 Psalm 46:7 2 Chronicles 20:12 Judges 4:3-9 Joshua 11:4-6 Numbers 23:21 Deuteronomy 7:1 Joshua 10:5-8 Joshua 11:9 Isaiah 37:24-25 Deuteronomy 2:7 Genesis 26:3 -
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And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the shall approach and speak unto the people,
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and shall say unto them: ‘Hear, O , ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your faint; not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them;
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Isaiah 35:3-4 Ephesians 6:11-18 Psalm 27:1-3 1 Timothy 6:12 Hebrews 13:6 Acts 27:24 Isaiah 57:7-8 Revelation 2:10 Matthew 10:31 Matthew 10:16 Mark 16:18 Mark 16:6 1 Thessalonians 5:15 Isaiah 41:10-14 Psalm 3:6 Isaiah 28:16 Joshua 23:10 Hebrews 12:12-13 Matthew 10:28 Isaiah 8:12-13 Acts 18:9-10 Matthew 8:26 - 4 for your is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to you.’
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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 there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.
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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.’
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- 8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: ‘What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s melt as his .’
- 9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people.
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When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim unto it.
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- 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of , and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall thee.
- 12 And if it will make no with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it.
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And when thy delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;
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- 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 for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which thy 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 Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that thy giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt alive nothing that breatheth,
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but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as thy hath commanded thee;
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- 18 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their Elohims, and so ye sin against your .
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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 wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, but thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?
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Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.
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