Deuteronomy 20:4

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.’

Hebrew Names Version
for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

King James Version
For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Lexham English Bible
for Yahweh your God is going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.'

English Standard Version
for the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

New Century Version
because the Lord your God goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies and to save you."

New English Translation
for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory."

Amplified Bible
for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

New American Standard Bible
for the LORD your God is the One who is going with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, & to saue you

Legacy Standard Bible
for Yahweh your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

Contemporary English Version
The Lord your God will fight alongside you and help you win the battle."

Complete Jewish Bible
because Adonai your God is going with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies and give you victory.'

Darby Translation
for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord your God is going with you to help you fight against your enemies. He will help you win!'

George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and it is he who shall fight for you with your enemies, and he shall save you.

Good News Translation
The Lord your God is going with you, and he will give you victory.'

Literal Translation
For Jehovah your God is He who is going before you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE youre God goeth with you, to fyghte for you agaynst youre enemies, yt he maye saue you.

American Standard Version
for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lord your God goeth with you, to fyght for you agaynst your enemies, and to saue you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord your God is hee that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to saue you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.

English Revised Version
for the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is He who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for youre Lord God is in the myddis of you, and he schal fiyte for you ayens aduersaries, that he delyuere you fro perel.

Young's Literal Translation
for Jehovah your God [is] He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies -- to save you.

Update Bible Version
for Yahweh your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

World English Bible
for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

New King James Version
for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

New Living Translation
For the Lord your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!'

New Life Bible
For the Lord your God is the One Who goes with you. He will fight for you against those who hate you. And He will save you.'

New Revised Standard
for it is the Lord your God who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you victory."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Yahweh your God, is he that is going with you, - to fight for you against your enemies to save you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.

Revised Standard Version
for the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

Contextual Overview

¹ When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt. ² And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people, ³ Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you; ⁴ For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you. ⁵ And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself. ⁶ Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit. ⁷ Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her. ⁸ And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble. ⁹ Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.

Bible Verse Review
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to fight: Deuteronomy 1:30, Deuteronomy 3:22, Deuteronomy 11:25, Deuteronomy 32:30, Exodus 14:14, Joshua 10:42, Joshua 23:10, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 32:7, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Psalms 144:1, Psalms 144:2, Romans 8:37

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:3 - goeth over Deuteronomy 31:6 - Be strong Joshua 1:5 - There shall Joshua 23:3 - for the 1 Samuel 7:10 - discomfited 2 Kings 19:6 - Be not afraid 1 Chronicles 22:18 - before the Lord 2 Chronicles 20:15 - Be not afraid Nehemiah 4:14 - General Nehemiah 4:20 - our God Psalms 60:10 - didst Psalms 108:11 - go forth Isaiah 28:6 - and for strength Isaiah 52:12 - for Jeremiah 42:11 - for I Ephesians 6:10 - be

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

Genesis 20:17
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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,.... Isaiah 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 Joshua 6:4

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.