Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 20:4
For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
4. to save you ] Better, to give you the victory.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
4. your God is he that goeth withyou, to fight for you against your enemies, to save youAccordingto Jewish writers, the ark was always taken into the field of combat.But there is no evidence of this in the sacred history; and it musthave been a sufficient ground of encouragement to be assured that Godwas on their side.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you,…. To battle, and therefore they had no reason to fear and be dismayed, to be fainthearted, terrified, and tremble:
fear not, I am with thee,…. Isa 41:10, this, according to the Misnah f, respects the ark, and so Jarchi, which was a symbol of the divine Presence, and went with them to battle; see Jos 6:4
to fight for you against your enemies, to save you; to annoy and destroy the one, and to protect and save the other; thus far the anointed priest addressed the people in an oration to this purpose: the account Maimonides gives of it is, that
“when they have set their ranks, and are near to a battle, the anointed of war stands on an high place, and all the ranks before him, and says to them in the holy tongue, “hear, O Israel”, c. unto to save you and then another priest under him causes it to be heard by all the people with an high voice g;”
he repeated what the anointed of war had said, and expressed it with a loud voice, that all might hear.
f Ut supra. (Misn. Sotab, c. 8. sect. 1.) g Hilchot Melachim, c. 7. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(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 (1Sa. 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 (Psa. 20:7).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Ver. 4. For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you The ark, the symbol of God’s presence, went sometimes before them, and sometimes in the midst of them; Jos 3:10-11; Jos 6:9. So that God was then properly said to go with them; and at all other times he was present to aid them, especially against the people of Canaan, their battles with whom were called the wars of the Lord. See Eusebius’s Life of the Emperor Constantine, lib. 4: cap. 20. The word rendered tremble, in the 3rd verse, is the same which is elsewhere rendered to make haste, 2Sa 4:4. Psa 48:5. It signifies to be in haste, or hurry through fear.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Deu 20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Ver. 5. And hath not dedicated it. ] By prayers, hymns, and other holy solemnities then usual; Neh 12:27 Psa 30:1 title that “the house of David might be as God, as the Angel of the Lord before them.” Zec 12:8
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
to fight for you. Compare Exo 14:25. Psa 3:8; Psa 35:1.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
to fight: Deu 1:30, Deu 3:22, Deu 11:25, Deu 32:30, Exo 14:14, Jos 10:42, Jos 23:10, 2Ch 13:12, 2Ch 32:7, 2Ch 32:8, Psa 144:1, Psa 144:2, Rom 8:37
Reciprocal: Deu 9:3 – goeth over Deu 31:6 – Be strong Jos 1:5 – There shall Jos 23:3 – for the 1Sa 7:10 – discomfited 2Ki 19:6 – Be not afraid 1Ch 22:18 – before the Lord 2Ch 20:15 – Be not afraid Neh 4:14 – General Neh 4:20 – our God Psa 60:10 – didst Psa 108:11 – go forth Isa 28:6 – and for strength Isa 52:12 – for Jer 42:11 – for I Eph 6:10 – be
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that {b} goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
(b) Is present to defend you with his grace and power.