The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

“Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.

And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’

You shall not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.’

for the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’

“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

Miscellaneous Laws

“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,