Deuteronomy 20:4

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

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In The King James Version

For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

In Context

3Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

5And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:14The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

Deuteronomy 3:22Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

Deuteronomy 32:30How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

Joshua 10:42And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

1 Samuel 14:23So the Lord made Israel safe that day: and the fight went over to Beth-aven.

2 Chronicles 13:12And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 20:2-10

Directions Concerning War; Persons Excused from War. ( b. c. 1451.) 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. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your… Read the whole commentary →

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