Deuteronomy 20

    Chapter 20


    1 When thou goest out to abattle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and bchariots, and a people more than thou, be not cafraid of them: for the dLord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.



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


    6 And what man is he that hath planted a avineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

    7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a awife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

    8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is afearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart bfaint as well as his heart.


    10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to afight against it, then proclaim bpeace unto it.

    11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be atributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.



    14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt aeat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.


    16 But of the acities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

    17 But thou shalt utterly adestroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:


    19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (afor the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:

    20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for ameat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.