Deuteronomy 20:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The officials shall continue to speak to the army: “Is there anyone who is afraid and weakhearted? Let him return home, or else he might make the hearts of his fellows melt as his does.”

Cross References

Exodus 15:15

Then were the chieftains of Edom dismayed, the nobles of Moab seized by trembling; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away;

Proverbs 24:10

Did you fail in a day of adversity, did your strength fall short?

Numbers 13:31

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us.”

Numbers 32:9

They went up to the Wadi Eshcol and reconnoitered the land, then so discouraged the Israelites that they would not enter the land the Lord had given them.

Luke 9:62

[To him] Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

Deuteronomy 1:28

What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 20:9

When the officials have finished speaking to the army, military commanders shall be appointed over them. Cities of the Enemy.

Deuteronomy 23:9

Children born to them may come into the assembly of the Lord in the third generation. Cleanliness in Camp.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.

Revelation 3:16

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

Judges 7:3

So announce in the hearing of the soldiers, “If anyone is afraid or fearful, let him leave! Let him depart from Mount Gilead!” Twenty-two thousand of the soldiers left, but ten thousand remained.