Deuteronomy 20:8

Overview - Deuteronomy 20
The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle.
The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war.
10 How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace.
16 What cities must be devoted.
19 Trees of man's meat must not be destroyed in the siege.
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Deuteronomy 20:8  (King James Version)
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
 


fearful
1:28 23:9 Judges 7:3 ; Luke 9:62 ; Acts 15:37 Acts 15:38 ; Revelation 3:16 ; 21:8

lest his brethren's
Numbers 13:31-33 ; 14:1-3 32:9 1 Corinthians 15:33

faint
Hebrew melt.
1:28 *marg:
Exodus 15:15