Deuteronomy 1:42

1:42 But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”

Deuteronomy 12:10

12:10 When you do go across the Jordan River ¹  and settle in the land he ²  is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety. ³ 

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ⁴  and troops ⁵  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 20:14

20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:7

28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack ⁶  you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction ⁷  but flee from you in seven different directions.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror ⁸  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:48

28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ⁹  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ¹⁰  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ¹¹  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ¹²  by which your enemies will constrict you.

Deuteronomy 32:43

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

Deuteronomy 33:29

33:29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you?

You are a people delivered by the Lord,

your protective shield

and your exalted sword.

May your enemies cringe before you;

may you trample on their backs.

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¹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

³ tn In the Hebrew text vv. 10-11 are one long, complex sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides this into two sentences.

⁴ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

⁵ tn Heb “people.”

⁶ tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

⁷ tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

⁸ tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).

⁹ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

¹¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

¹² tn Heb “siege and stress.”