strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
.
strkjv@Deuteronomy:20:2
@ And it shall be, when ye are come
nigh
unto the
battle
, that the
priest
shall
approach
and
speak
unto the
people
,
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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;
strkjv@Deuteronomy:20:4
@ For the
LORD
your
God
is he that
goeth
with you, to
fight
for you against your
enemies
, to
save
you.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
brethrens
heart
faint
as well as his
heart
.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
.
strkjv@Deuteronomy:20:10
@ When thou comest
nigh
unto a
city
to
fight
against it, then
proclaim
peace
unto it.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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.
strkjv@Deuteronomy:20:12
@ And if it will make no
peace
with thee, but will
make
war
against thee, then thou shalt
besiege
it:
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
:
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
:
strkjv@Deuteronomy:20:17
@ But thou shalt
utterly
destroy
them; namely, the
Hittites
, and the
Amorites
, the
Canaanites
K@, and the
Perizzites
, the
Hivites
, and the
Jebusites
; as the
LORD
thy
God
hath
commanded
thee:
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
.
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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
axe
against them: for thou mayest
eat
of them, and thou shalt not cut them
down
(for the
tree
of the
field
is
mans
life) to
employ
them in the
siege
:
strkjv@Deuteronomy: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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