for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
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for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
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For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
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for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 20:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
- Deuteronomy 1:30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
- Deuteronomy 3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
- Joshua 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
- Deuteronomy 11:25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Romans 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Psalms 144:1-2 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
- Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
- 2 Chronicles 13:12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:7-8 “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- Joshua 10:42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Is present to defend you with his grace and…
Is present to defend you with his grace and power.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he…
Deu 20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Ver. 5. And hath not dedicated it.] By prayers, hymns, and other holy solemnities then usual; {Neh 12:27 Psa 30:1 title} that "the house of David might be as God, as the Angel of the Lord before them." {Zec 12:8}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For the Lord your God is he that goeth…
For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you,.... To battle, and therefore they had no reason to fear and be dismayed, to be fainthearted, terrified, and tremble:
fear not, I am with thee,.... Isa 41:10, this, according to the Misnah (f), respects the ark, and so Jarchi, which was a symbol of the divine Presence, and went with them to battle; see Jos 6:4.
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to fight for you against your enemies, to save you; to annoy and destroy the one, and to protect and save the other; thus far the anointed priest addressed the people in an oration to this purpose: the account Maimonides gives of it is, that"when they have set their ranks, and are near to a battle, the anointed of war stands on an high place, and all the ranks before him, and says to them in the holy tongue, "hear, O Israel", &c. unto to save you; and then another priest under him causes it to be heard by all the people with an high voice (g);''he repeated what the anointed of war had said, and expressed it with a loud voice, that all might hear.
(f) Ut supra. (Misn. Sotab, c. 8. sect. 1.) (g) Hilchot Melachim, c. 7. sect. 3.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain God. All must be done in his name, by…
God. All must be done in his name, by the direction of his ministers. The Jews pretend that the ark was carried in the midst of the army. But this does not seem to have been generally the case. (Calmet) --- Of you. "We must co-operate, being assisted" by God, as St. Augustine (q. 30,) observes, in our spiritual conflicts. (Du Hamel)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain your God is he that goeth with you, to…
your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you--According to Jewish writers, the ark was always taken into the field of combat. But there is no evidence of this in the sacred history; and it must have been a sufficient ground of encouragement to be assured that God was on their side.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. to save you] Better, to give you the…
4. to save you] Better, to give you the victory.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) For the Lord your God is he that…
(4) For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you.—“They come in the might of flesh and blood; but ye come in the might of the Eternal” (Rashi). So David to Goliath: “Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied” (1Sa_17:45). And so the Psalmist: “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God” (Psa_20:7).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 20:4 He will fight for you: This promise affirms…
20:4 He will fight for you: This promise affirms that God initiates wars, carries them out, and brings them to successful conclusion against his enemies. The purpose of war initiated by God was to eradicate hopelessly unrepentant enemies and prevent them from contaminating his people (see 1:30).
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