Thematic Bible
Deuteronomy 20:1 (show verse)
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 20:2 (show verse)
And it shall be, when ye are come near unto the battle that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people
Deuteronomy 20:3 (show verse)
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,
Deuteronomy 20:4 (show verse)
for the LORD your God is he that goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Deuteronomy 20:5 (show verse)
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:6 (show verse)
And who has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? Let him also go and return unto his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man eat of it.
Deuteronomy 20:7 (show verse)
And what man is there that has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man take her.
Deuteronomy 20:8 (show verse)
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and a coward at heart? Let him go and return unto his house that he not cause his brethren's hearts to become as his heart.
Deuteronomy 20:9 (show verse)
And it shall be when the officers have finished speaking unto the people that the captains of the armies shall lead before the people.
Deuteronomy 20:10 (show verse)
When thou comest near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy 20:11 (show verse)
And it shall be, if it makes thee an answer of peace and opens unto thee, that all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
Deuteronomy 20:12 (show verse)
And if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee, and if thou should besiege it,
Deuteronomy 20:13 (show verse)
and if the LORD thy God should deliver it into thine hands, then thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:14 (show verse)
Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God has given thee.
Deuteronomy 20:15 (show verse)
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these Gentiles.
Deuteronomy 20:16 (show verse)
Only of the cities of these peoples, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breathes;
Deuteronomy 20:17 (show verse)
but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee,
Deuteronomy 20:18 (show verse)
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they do unto their gods, lest ye should sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 20:19 (show verse)
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 may 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.
Deuteronomy 20:20 (show verse)
Only the trees which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that makes war with thee, until it is subdued.