Deuteronomy 20:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The officers shall continue to address the troops, saying, ‘Is anyone afraid or disheartened? He should go back to his house, or he might cause the heart of his comrades to melt like his own.’

Cross References

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; trembling seized the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small;

Numbers 13:31

Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 32:9

When they went up to the Wadi Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land that the Lord had given them.

Luke 9:62

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

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Deuteronomy 20:9

When the officers have finished addressing the troops, then the commanders shall take charge of them.

Deuteronomy 23:9

“When you are encamped against your enemies, you shall guard against every evil thing.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 3:16

So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Judges 7:3

Now, therefore, proclaim this in the hearing of the troops, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.’ ” Thus Gideon sifted them out; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained.