OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 7:21

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You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

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Verse 21. Fear. Septuagint “be wounded.” In the war with the Madianites, not one was killed, (Numbers 31:49,) as Josephus (iii. 2) informs us, was also the case when king Amalec and his people attacked the Hebrews. Exodus 17:13. The people seem to have expected such a miraculous interference of Providence in their favour; and hence, when 36 were slain at the siege of Hai, all were greatly dejected. Joshua 7:5. Bible.

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