Deuteronomy 20:8

Modern English Version

The officers are to speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart faint as well as his heart.”

Cross References

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom were amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling takes hold of them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Numbers 13:31

But the men that went up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people because they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 32:9

When they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites so they would not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

Luke 9:62

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back at things is fit for the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.’ ”

Deuteronomy 20:9

It will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they must make captains of the armies to lead the people.

Deuteronomy 23:9

When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

Revelation 3:16

So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Judges 7:3

So now, call out so the people can hear, ‘Whoever is afraid or anxious may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand from among the people turned back, and ten thousand were left.