Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:42 
Context1:42 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
Context12:10 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
Context20:1 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
Context20:14 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
Context28:7 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
Context28:25 “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
Context28:48 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
Context28:53 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
Context32:43 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
Context33:29 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.
1 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the
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
11 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
12 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
