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Deuteronomy Chapter 20

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DEUTERONOMY

Deuteronomy 20

1When thou shalt go forth to warre against thine enemies, and shalt see horses and charets, and people moe then thou, be not afrayde of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 32:7, 2 Chronicles 32:8, 2 Chronicles 32:7, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Deuteronomy 31:8
2And when ye are come neere vnto the battel, then the Priest shall come forth to speake vnto the people,
Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12, Numbers 31:6, Numbers 10:8
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.
Hebrews 13:6, Psalms 3:6, Hebrews 13:6, Psalms 3:6, Revelation 2:10
4For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to saue you
Exodus 14:14, Exodus 14:14, Deuteronomy 3:22, Deuteronomy 3:22, Joshua 23:10
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.
Nehemiah 12:27, Nehemiah 12:27, Numbers 31:48, 1 Samuel 17:18, Deuteronomy 1:15
6And what man is there that hath planted a vineyarde, and hath not eaten of the fruite? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, least he die in the battel, and another eate the fruite.
Leviticus 19:23, Leviticus 19:25, Leviticus 19:23, Leviticus 19:25, Jeremiah 31:5
7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy 24:5, Deuteronomy 24:5, Deuteronomy 28:30, Deuteronomy 28:30, 2 Timothy 2:4
8And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say, Whosoeuer is afrayde and faynt hearted, let him go and returne vnto his house, least his brethrens heart faynt like his heart.
Judges 7:3, Judges 7:3, Revelation 21:8, Deuteronomy 1:28, Revelation 21:8
9And after that the officers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, they shall make captaines of the armie to gouerne the people.
10When thou commest neere vnto a citie to fight against it, thou shalt offer it peace.
2 Corinthians 5:18, 2 Corinthians 6:1, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Ephesians 2:17
11And if it answere thee againe peaceably, and open vnto thee, then let all the people that is founde therein, be tributaries vnto thee, and serue thee.
Joshua 9:27, Judges 1:28, Joshua 9:22, Joshua 9:23, 1 Kings 9:21
12But if it will make no peace with thee, but make war against thee, then shalt thou besiege it.
13And the Lord thy God shall deliuer it into thine handes, and thou shalt smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sworde.
Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:12, Numbers 31:17
14Onely the women, and the children, and the cattel, and all that is in the citie, euen all the spoyle thereof shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and shalt eate the spoyle of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee.
Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 22:8, Joshua 22:8, Numbers 31:9
15Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.
16But of the cities of this people, which the Lord thy God shall giue thee to inherite, thou shalt saue no person aliue,
Joshua 11:14, Joshua 11:14, Numbers 21:2, Numbers 21:3, Numbers 21:2
17But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,
Isaiah 34:5, Isaiah 34:6, Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:2, Jeremiah 50:35
18That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, and so ye should sinne against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Exodus 23:33
19When thou hast besieged a citie long time, and made warre against it to take it, destroy not the trees therof, by smiting an axe into them: for thou mayest eate of them: therfore thou shalt not cut them downe to further thee in the siege, (for the tree of the field is mans life)
John 15:2, John 15:8, Matthew 3:10, Deuteronomy 26:6, John 15:2
20Onely those trees, which thou knowest are not for meate, those shalt thou destroy and cut downe, and make fortes against the citie that maketh warre with thee, vntil thou subdue it.
Deuteronomy 1:28, Ecclesiastes 9:14, Jeremiah 33:4, Ezekiel 17:17, Jeremiah 6:6

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