Deuteronomy 20 NKJV

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Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God <i>is</i> He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man <i>is there</i> 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. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Also what man <i>is there</i> who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And what man <i>is there</i> who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘What man <i>is there who is</i> fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people <i>who are</i> found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now if <i>the city</i> will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thus you shall do to all the cities <i>which are</i> very far from you, which <i>are</i> not of the cities of these nations.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But of the cities of these peoples which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives you <i>as</i> an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God has commanded you, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>lest they teach you to do according to all their <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field <i>is</i> man’s <i>food.</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Only the trees which you know <i>are</i> not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-5436a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 20:8">Deuteronomy 20:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; Sam., LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>lest he make his brother’s heart faint</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5446b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 20:18">Deuteronomy 20:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>detestable things</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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