Deuteronomy 20:4

Green's Literal Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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.'

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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

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.

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

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!'

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.'

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.

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.'

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

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 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.'

Legacy Standard Bible
for Yahweh 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 battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots, a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ² And it shall be, when you draw near to battle, the priest shall come and speak to the people, ³ and say to them. Hear, Israel, you are drawing near today to battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart be faint; do not fear nor tremble, nor be terrified before their faces. ⁴ For Jehovah your God is He who is going before you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. ⁵ And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, Who is the man that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, that he not die in battle and another man dedicate it. ⁶ And who is the man that has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, that he not die in battle, and another man use its fruit. ⁷ And who is the man who has betrothed a woman, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, that he not die in the battle, and another man take her. ⁸ And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, Who is the man who is afraid, and faint of heart? Let him go and return to his house; then the heart of his brothers will not melt like his heart. ⁹ And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, commanders of the armies shall be appointed at the head of the people.

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
And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of the heavens.

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.

Genesis 20:17
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his concubines, and they gave birth.

Genesis 20:18
For Jehovah had completely closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

2 Samuel 4:11
And when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not even now seek his blood from your hand, and glean you from the earth?

1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said to God, Was it not I, I who said to number the people? Yea, it was I who sinned, and truly have done evil; and these, the flock, what have they done? O Jehovah, my God, I prayYou, let Your hand be on me and on my father'shouse, and not on Your people, to be plagued.

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.