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DEUTERONOMY
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Chapter 20
Deut AB 20:1  And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see a horse and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deut AB 20:2  And it shall come to pass whenever you shall draw near to battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak to the people, and shall say to them,
Deut AB 20:3  Hear, O Israel; you are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.
Deut AB 20:4  For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.
Deut AB 20:5  And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it.
Deut AB 20:6  And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it.
Deut AB 20:7  And what man is there that has betrothed 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.
Deut AB 20:8  And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is there that fears, and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.
Deut AB 20:9  And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.
Deut AB 20:10  And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
Deut AB 20:11  If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.
Deut AB 20:12  But if they will not hearken to you, but wage war against you, you shall besiege it;
Deut AB 20:13  until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword;
Deut AB 20:14  except the women and the stuff; and all the livestock, and whatsoever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.
Deut AB 20:15  Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.
Deut AB 20:17  but you shall surely curse them, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; as the Lord your God commanded you:
Deut AB 20:18  that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and so you should sin before the Lord your God.
Deut AB 20:19  And if you should besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down. Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before you into the work of the siege?
Deut AB 20:20  But the tree which you know to be not fruit-bearing, this you shall destroy and cut down; and you shall construct a mound against the city, which makes war against you, until it is delivered up.