THEOSISDeuteronomy 1:42Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י אֱמֹ֤ר לָהֶם֙ לֹ֤א תֽ͏ַעֲלוּ֙ וְלֹא־תִלָּ֣חֲמ֔וּ כִּ֥י אֵינֶ֖נִּי בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וְלֹא֙ תִּנָּ֣גְפ֔וּ לִפְנֵ֖י אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Josh 7:8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?
- Josh 7:13Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.
- Num 14:41And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?
- Num 14:43The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.
- Hos 9:12And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.
- Lev 26:17I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.
- 1 Sam 4:2And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four thousand men.
- Isa 59:1Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.