Deuteronomy 20:4
New International Version
For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

New Living Translation
For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!’

English Standard Version
for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

King James Bible
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

New King James Version
for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

New American Standard Bible
for the LORD your God is the One who is going with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

NASB 1995
for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

NASB 1977
for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Legacy Standard Bible
for Yahweh your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Amplified Bible
for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Christian Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.’”

American Standard Version
for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because LORD JEHOVAH your God goes with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and he fought for your persons with your enemies and he saved you'.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD your God will fight alongside you and help you win the battle."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.

English Revised Version
for the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD your God is going with you. He will fight for you against your enemies and give you victory."

Good News Translation
The LORD your God is going with you, and he will give you victory.'

International Standard Version
For the LORD your God will be with you, fighting on your behalf against your enemies in order to grant you victory.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

Literal Standard Version
for your God YHWH [is] He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies—to save you.

Majority Standard Bible
For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

New American Bible
For it is the LORD, your God, who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and give you victory.”

NET Bible
for the LORD your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory."

New Revised Standard Version
for it is the LORD your God who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you victory.”

New Heart English Bible
for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

World English Bible
for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

Young's Literal Translation
for Jehovah your God is He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies -- to save you.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Laws of Warfare
3saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them. 4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.” 5Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:30
The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

Deuteronomy 3:22
Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you."

Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you."

Joshua 23:10
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.


Treasury of Scripture

For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

to fight

Deuteronomy 1:30
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

Deuteronomy 3:22
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

Deuteronomy 11:25
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

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(4) For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you.--"They come in the might of flesh and blood; but ye come in the might of the Eternal" (Rashi). So David to Goliath: "Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied" (1Samuel 17:45). And so the Psalmist: "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God" (Psalm 20:7).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

[is] He who goes
הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ (ha·hō·lêḵ)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

with you
עִמָּכֶ֑ם (‘im·mā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

to fight
לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם (lə·hil·lā·ḥêm)
Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

for you
לָכֶ֛ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

against
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

your enemies,
אֹיְבֵיכֶ֖ם (’ō·yə·ḇê·ḵem)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

to give you the victory.”
לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ (lə·hō·wō·šî·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor


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