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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