Deuteronomy Chapter 20

• Deuteronomy 20:1
  Deuteronomy.
• Deuteronomy 20:2
  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 th...
• Deuteronomy 20:3
  It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
• Deuteronomy 20:4
  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, neit...
• Deuteronomy 20:5
  for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
• Deuteronomy 20:6
  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 h...
• Deuteronomy 20:7
  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 m...
• Deuteronomy 20:8
  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 a...
• Deuteronomy 20:9
  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 ...
• Deuteronomy 20:10
  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.
• Deuteronomy 20:11
  When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
• Deuteronomy 20:12
  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...
• Deuteronomy 20:14
  When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
• Deuteronomy 20:15
  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...
• Deuteronomy 20:16
  Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
• Deuteronomy 20:17
  But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
• Deuteronomy 20:18
  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 com...
• Deuteronomy 20:19
  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.
• Deuteronomy 20:20
  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 yo...
• Deuteronomy 20:21
  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 wit...