Deuteronomy 20:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 14:14
The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Deuteronomy 3:22
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
Joshua 23:10
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.
Deuteronomy 1:30
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;
Deuteronomy 11:25
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.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

2-4. when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people--Jewish writers say that there was a war priest appointed by a special ceremonial to attend the army. It was natural that the solemn objects and motives of religion should have been applied to animate patriotism, and so give additional impulse to valor; other people have done this. But in the case…