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4For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Deuteronomy 20:4

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

  • Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

  • One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

  • The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

  • There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Israel was at this time to be considered rather as a camp than as a kingdom, entering upon an enemy’s country, and not yet settled in a country of their own; and, besides the war they were now entering upon in order to their settlement, even after their settlement they could neither protect nor enlarge their coast without hearing the alarms of war. It was therefore needful that they should have di…

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