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. 2Ch 32:7-8Deu 31:8Psa 20:7Deu 31:6Isa 43:2Rom 8:31Jos 1:5Isa 31:1 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 2Ch 13:12Num 10:8-9Num 31:61Sa 14:181Sa 30:7-8Jdg 20:27-28 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; 1 2 Heb 13:6Psa 3:6Rev 2:10Isa 8:12-13Jos 23:10Psa 27:1-31Ti 6:12Eph 6:11-18 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. Exo 14:14Deu 1:30Deu 3:22Jos 23:10Deu 11:25Rom 8:37Psa 144:1-22Ch 32:7-8
¶ 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. Neh 12:271Sa 17:18Deu 1:15Deu 16:18Num 31:14Num 31:48Psa 30:1 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. 3 Lev 19:23-25Deu 28:1-30Isa 65:22Jer 31:5Zep 1:13 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. Deu 24:5Deu 28:302Ti 2:4Deu 22:23-25Luk 14:18-20Mat 1:18 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 brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart. 4 Jdg 7:3Deu 1:28Rev 21:8Act 15:37-38Deu 23:9Luk 9:62Num 32:91Co 15:33 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. 5
¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. Luk 10:5-62Co 5:18Eph 2:172Sa 20:18-22Act 10:36Isa 57:19Zec 9:10 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. 1Ki 9:21-22Jdg 1:28Jdg 1:30-35Jos 11:19-20Jos 16:10Jos 9:22-23Jos 9:27Lev 25:42-46 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: Psa 2:6-121Ki 11:15-162Th 1:7-9Luk 19:27Num 31:17-18Num 31:7-9Psa 110:1Psa 21:8-9 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. 6 Jos 8:2Jos 22:8Num 31:92Ch 14:13-152Ch 20:25Jos 11:14Num 31:12Num 31:18 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 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: Jos 11:14Num 21:2-3Deu 7:1-4Deu 7:16Jos 6:17-21Exo 23:31-33Jos 10:28Jos 10:40 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: Isa 34:5-6Deu 7:1-2Ezk 38:21-23Jer 48:10Jer 50:35-40Rev 19:18 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. Deu 12:30-31Exo 23:33Eph 5:111Co 15:332Co 6:172Th 3:14Deu 7:4-5Exo 34:16
¶ 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 man’s life) to employ them in the siege: 7 8 Mat 3:10Mat 21:19Deu 26:6Jhn 15:2-8Luk 13:7-9Mat 7:15-20 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. 9 Isa 37:332Ch 26:15Deu 1:28Ecc 9:14Ezk 17:17Jer 33:4Jer 6:6