Deuteronomy 20:4

For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to saue you

Geneva Bible 1599

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

3And shall say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them.

5And let the officers speake vnto the people, saying, What man is there that hath buylt a new house, and hath not dedicate it? let him go and returne to his house, least he dye in the battel, and an other man dedicate it.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:14The Lord shall fight for you: therefore hold you your peace.

Deuteronomy 3:22Ye shall not feare them: for the Lord your God, he shall fight for you.

Deuteronomy 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold the, and the Lord had shut them vp?

Joshua 10:42And all these Kings, and their land did Ioshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

1 Samuel 14:23And so the Lord saued Israel that day: and the battell continued vnto Beth-auen.

2 Chronicles 13:12And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

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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