Timely Chapter in Deuteronomy with the Current Situation in Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel)

Wondering Why Many Are In False Religion Or False Spiritual Groups?

As it is in going to war, Hashem grants free will to everyone.

If you wish to continue to ignore His Truths or disregard His Commands, He will allow you (vs. 5-8).

Warning against “Idol Worship” is still as always emphasized all throughout the Hebrew Scripture (v. 18).

The opposite is true with the Greek book – New Testament teaching people to worship other G-d in the person of Jesus.

“When Israel Goes to War”
“The Kohen (Priest) Anointed for Battle Speaks to the People”
“Those Unqualified to Fight”
“Overtures for Peace”
“Preservation of Fruit Trees”

When you go out to the battle against your enemy, and you see horse and chariot – a people more numerous than you – you shall not fear them, for Hashem, your God, is with you, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
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He shall say to them, “Hear, O Israel, you are coming near to the battle against your enemies; let your heart not be faint; do not be afraid, do not panic, and do not be broken before them.
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For Hashem, your God, is the One Who goes with you, to fight for you with your enemies to save you.”
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Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not inaugurated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war and another man will inaugurate it.
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And who is the man who has betrothed a woman and not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war and another man will marry her.”
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The officers shall continue speaking to the people and say, “Who is the man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, and let him not melt the heart of his fellows, like his heart.”
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It shall be that if it responds to you in peace and opens for you, then the entire people found within it shall be as tribute for you, and they shall serve you.
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But if it does not make peace with you, but makes war with you, you shall besiege it.
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Hashem shall deliver it into your hand, and you shall smite all its males by the blade of the sword.
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Only the women, the small children, the animals, and everything that will be in the city – all its booty – may you plunder for yourselves; you shall eat the booty of your enemies, which Hashem, your God, gave you.
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But from the cities of these people that Hashem, your God, gives you as an inheritance, you shall not allow any person to live.
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Rather you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite,the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivvite, and the Jebusite, as Hashem, your God, has commanded you,
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so that they will not teach you to act according to all their abominations that they performed for their gods, so that you will sin to Hashem, your God.
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… do not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for from it you will eat, and you shall not cut it down; …
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1 When you go out to war against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot, a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord, your God is with you Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 And it will be, when you approach the battle, that the kohen shall come near, and speak to the people.
3 And he shall say to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are approaching the battle against your enemies. Let your hearts not be faint; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be alarmed, and you shall not be terrified because of them.
4 For the Lord, your God, is the One Who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
5 And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not [yet] inaugurated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man inaugurate it.
6 And what man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not [yet] redeemed it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man redeem it.
7 And what man is there who has betrothed a woman and has not [yet] taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.”
8 And the officers shall continue to speak to the people and say, “What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, that he should not cause the heart of his brothers to melt, as his heart.”
9 And it shall be, that when the officials finish speaking to the people, they shall appoint officers of the legions at the edges of the people.
10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, you shall propose peace to it.
11 And it will be, if it responds to you with peace, and it opens up to you, then it will be, [that] all the people found therein shall become tributary to you, and they shall serve you.
12 But if it does not make peace with you, and it wages war against you, you shall besiege it,
13 and the Lord, your God, will deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike all its males with the edge of the sword.
14 However, the women, the children, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoils you shall take for yourself, and you shall eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you.
15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 However, of these peoples’ cities, which the Lord, your God, gives you as an inheritance, you shall not allow any soul to live.
17 Rather, you shall utterly destroy them: The Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivvites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord, your God, has commanded you.
18 So that they should not teach you to act according to all their abominations that they have done for their gods, whereby you would sin against the Lord, your God.
19 When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them, for you may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Is the tree of the field a man, to go into the siege before you?
20 However, a tree you know is not a food tree, you may destroy and cut down, and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until its submission.