1When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

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2 Chronicles 32:7, 2 Chronicles 32:8, 2 Chronicles 32:7, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Deuteronomy 31:8

2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

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Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12, Numbers 31:6, Numbers 10:8

3and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: do not let your heart faint; do not be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

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Hebrews 13:6, Psalms 3:6, Hebrews 13:6, Psalms 3:6, Revelation 2:10

4for the Lord your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

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Exodus 14:14, Exodus 14:14, Deuteronomy 3:22, Deuteronomy 3:22, Joshua 23:10

5The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

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Nehemiah 12:27, Nehemiah 12:27, Numbers 31:48, 1 Samuel 17:18, Deuteronomy 1:15

6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

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Leviticus 19:23, Leviticus 19:25, Leviticus 19:23, Leviticus 19:25, Jeremiah 31:5

7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

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Deuteronomy 24:5, Deuteronomy 24:5, Deuteronomy 28:30, Deuteronomy 28:30, 2 Timothy 2:4

8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."

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Judges 7:3, Judges 7:3, Revelation 21:8, Deuteronomy 1:28, Revelation 21:8

9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

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10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

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2 Corinthians 5:18, 2 Corinthians 6:1, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Ephesians 2:17

11It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

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Joshua 9:27, Judges 1:28, Joshua 9:22, Joshua 9:23, 1 Kings 9:21

12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

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13and when the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:12, Numbers 31:17

14but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.

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Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 22:8, Joshua 22:8, Numbers 31:9

15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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16But of the cities of these peoples, that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

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Joshua 11:14, Joshua 11:14, Numbers 21:2, Numbers 21:3, Numbers 21:2

17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the Lord your God has commanded you;

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Isaiah 34:5, Isaiah 34:6, Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:2, Jeremiah 50:35

18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against the Lord your God.

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Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Exodus 23:33

19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

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John 15:2, John 15:8, Matthew 3:10, Deuteronomy 26:6, John 15:2

20Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build siege works against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

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Deuteronomy 1:28, Ecclesiastes 9:14, Jeremiah 33:4, Ezekiel 17:17, Jeremiah 6:6