When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. 2Ch 32:7-8Deu 31:8Psa 20:7Deu 31:6Isa 43:2Rom 8:31Jos 1:5Isa 31:1 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 2Ch 13:12Num 10:8-9Num 31:61Sa 14:181Sa 30:7-8Jdg 20:27-28 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; 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 who goes 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
The 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. Neh 12:271Sa 17:18Deu 1:15Deu 16:18Num 31:14Num 31:48Psa 30:1 What 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. Lev 19:23-25Deu 28:1-30Isa 65:22Jer 31:5Zep 1:13 What man is there who has pledged to be married to 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.” Deu 24:5Deu 28:302Ti 2:4Deu 22:23-25Luk 14:18-20Mat 1:18 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.” Jdg 7:3Deu 1:28Rev 21:8Act 15:37-38Deu 23:9Luk 9:62Num 32:91Co 15:33 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. Luk 10:5-62Co 5:18Eph 2:172Sa 20:18-22Act 10:36Isa 57:19Zec 9:10 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you. 1Ki 9:21-22Jdg 1:28Jdg 1:30-35Jos 11:19-20Jos 16:10Jos 9:22-23Jos 9:27Lev 25:42-46 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it 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, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Jos 8:2Jos 22:8Num 31:92Ch 14:13-152Ch 20:25Jos 11:14Num 31:12Num 31:18 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; Jos 11:14Num 21:2-3Deu 7:1-4Deu 7:16Jos 6:17-21Exo 23:31-33Jos 10:28Jos 10:40 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you; Isa 34:5-6Deu 7:1-2Ezk 38:21-23Jer 48:10Jer 50:35-40Rev 19:18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you 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 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 ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? Mat 3:10Mat 21:19Deu 26:6Jhn 15:2-8Luk 13:7-9Mat 7:15-20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. Isa 37:332Ch 26:15Deu 1:28Ecc 9:14Ezk 17:17Jer 33:4Jer 6:6