Deuteronomy 23:9
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy 23:9 in other translations
| BSB | When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. |
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| WEB | When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. |
| ASV | When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. |
| YLT | ‘When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing. |
| DARBY | When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing. |
| BBE | When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing. |
| Webster | When the host goeth forth against thy enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. |
What does Deuteronomy 23:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:9-14
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:9-14
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Deuteronomy 23:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 23:9
- Joshua 6:18
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
- Revelation 19:11-14
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
- Joshua 7:11-13
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
- Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 20:3-13
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? …
- 2 Chronicles 31:20-32:22
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, …
- 2 Chronicles 19:4
And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer–sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 23:8
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:9
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
- Deuteronomy 23:10
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
Deuteronomy 23:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando salieres á campaña contra tus enemigos, guárdate de toda cosa mala. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les fils qui leur naîtront, à la troisième génération, entreront dans la congrégation de l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn du wider deine Feinde ins Lager ausziehst, so sollst du dich vor allem Bösen hüten: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quando egressus fueris adversus hostes tuos in pugnam, custodies te ab omni re mala. |