for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
- BSB For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
- NKJV for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
- NASB for the Lord your God is the One who is going with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
- NLT For the Lord your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!’
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Quick answer
The LORD Himself goes with Israel to fight for them and save them. Victory ultimately belongs to God, who battles on His people's behalf.
Overview
The ground of Israel's courage is that God accompanies them to fight their enemies and grant deliverance. The battle is the LORD's, and salvation is His work. This points to the gospel pattern in which God fights for His people and wins the decisive victory through Christ over sin, death, and the powers of darkness.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 14:14Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
- Deut 1:30Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
- Josh 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
- Deut 3:22You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
- Deut 11:25No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Ps 144:1–2By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:
- 2 Chr 32:7–8“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.
- Deut 32:30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
- 2 Chr 13:12Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
- Josh 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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