Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
When you go out
to war
against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an
army
larger
than yours
, do
not be afraid of them; for the
LORD
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt ,
is
with
you
.
When you go forth
to battle
against your enemies ,
and see horses, and
chariots, [
and ]
a
people
more
than you
, you
shall
not be afraid of them; for Yahweh
your God is
with
you
, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt.
When you are
about
to go
into
battle, the priest is
to
come
forward
and address
the army
,
It
shall
be,
when you draw
near
to the
battle, that
the priest shall
approach
and speak
to
the people
,
saying
to
them, “
Hear, O
Israel, today
you are
going
into
battle with
your enemies .
Do
not
be fainthearted
or
afraid ;
do
not
be alarmed
or
terrified
because
of them .
and
shall
tell
them, Hear, Israel, you draw
near
this
day
to
battle against
your enemies :
don't
let
your
heart
faint;
don't
be afraid ,
nor
tremble,
neither
be scared
of them ;
For the
LORD
your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give
you the
victory
. ”
for Yahweh
your God is
he
who
goes with you ,
to fight for you against your enemies, to save
you.
Furthermore,
the officers are
to address
the army
, saying, “Has
any
man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home
, or
he may
die in battle and another man dedicate it.
The officers shall
speak
to the people
, saying, What
man is
there
who
has
built a new house ,
and has
not dedicated it? let him go
and
return to
his
house
, lest
he die in the
battle ,
and another man dedicate it.
Has
any
man planted a vineyard and not begun
to
enjoy
its
fruit? Let him return home
, or
he may
die in battle and another man enjoy
its
fruit.
What
man is
there
who
has
planted a vineyard ,
and has
not used
the
fruit of
it
? let him go
and
return to
his
house
, lest
he die in the
battle ,
and another man use
the
fruit of
it
.
Has
any
man become
pledged to a woman
and not married
her? Let him return home
, or
he may
die in battle and another man marry
her. ”
What
man is
there
who
has
pledged to be
married
a wife,
and has
not taken
her? let him go
and
return to
his
house
, lest
he die in the
battle ,
and another man take
her.
Then
the officers shall speak further to the army
, saying
, “Is
any
man afraid
or
fainthearted
? Let him return home
, so
that
the
hearts
of
his brothers
will
not
melt like
his own
. ”
The officers shall speak further to the people
, and
they
shall
say
, What
man is
there
who
is
fearful
and
faint-hearted
? let him go
and
return to
his
house
, lest
his brother's
heart
melt as
his heart
.
When the officers have finished
addressing
the army
, they are
to
appoint commanders
to
lead
it
.
It
shall
be,
when the officers have made
an
end
of
speaking
to
the people
, that
they shall
appoint captains
of
hosts
at
the
head
of
the
people
.
When you approach
a city to fight against it, you
are
to
make
an
offer
of
peace.
When you draw
near
to
a city to fight against it, then
proclaim
peace to
it
.
If they
accept
your
offer
of peace and open their
gates
, all the people there
will
become forced
laborers
to serve you.
It
shall
be,
if it
make
you
answer
of peace ,
and open to
you
, then
it
shall
be,
that
all the people who
are
found
therein
shall
become tributary
to you,
and
shall
serve you.
But
if they
refuse
to
make peace with you and
wage
war against you, lay
siege
to
that
city.
If it
will
make no
peace with you ,
but
will
make
war against you, then
you
shall
besiege
it:
When the
LORD
your God has
delivered
it into your hand, you must
put
every male to
the sword .
and
when Yahweh
your God delivers
it into your hand, you shall
strike
every male of
it
with
the edge
of
the
sword :
But the women, children
, livestock
, and whatever
else
is in the city —
all its
spoil —
you may
take as
plunder,
and you shall use
the spoil of your enemies that
the
LORD
your God gives
you.
but the women, and
the
little
ones
, and
the
cattle
, and all
that
is in the city ,
even
all the
spoil of
it,
shall
you take for
a
prey
to
yourself;
and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies ,
which
Yahweh
your God has
given
you.
This
is
how
you are
to treat
all the cities that
are far away
from you and
do
not belong
to
the nations nearby
.
Thus
shall
you do
to all the cities which
are very
far off
from you ,
which
are
not of
the cities
of
these
nations.
However,
in
the cities of the
nations
that the
LORD
your God is
giving
you as
an inheritance, you must
not
leave
alive anything
that breathes .
But
of
the cities of these
peoples,
that Yahweh
your God gives
you for
an inheritance, you shall
save
alive nothing
that breathes ;
For
you must
devote
them to
complete
destruction
—
the Hittites
, Amorites
, Canaanites
, Perizzites
, Hivites
, and Jebusites—as
the LORD
your God has commanded you ,
but
you shall
utterly
destroy
them :
the Hittite
, and
the
Amorite
, the
Canaanite
, and
the
Perizzite
, the
Hivite
, and the Jebusite;
as
Yahweh
your God has commanded you ;
so
that they cannot
teach you to do all the
detestable
things
they do
for
their gods ,
and
so cause
you to
sin against the
LORD
your God.
that they not
teach you to do after
all their
abominations,
which
they have
done
to
their gods ;
so would
you sin against Yahweh
your God.
When you lay
siege
to
a city for
an
extended
time while
fighting
against it to capture
it, you must
not destroy its
trees by putting
an axe to
them ,
because
you can
eat their
fruit.
You must
not cut them down .
Are
the trees
of the field human
, that you
should besiege
them
?
When you shall
besiege
a city a
long
time ,
in
making
war
against it to take
it, you shall
not destroy the
trees of
it
by wielding
an axe against
them ;
for
you may
eat of
them,
and
you shall
not cut them down ;
for
is
the tree
of the field man
, that it
should be
besieged
of
you
?
But
you
may
destroy
the trees that
you know do
not produce
fruit.
Use
them to
build siege
works
against the city that is
waging
war against
you, until it falls
.
Only
the trees of
which
you know that
they
are
not trees
for
food,
you
shall
destroy
and
cut
them down;
and
you
shall
build bulwarks
against the city that makes
war with
you, until it fall
.
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