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If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward πthe city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

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the way of the city.

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go out to battle.

Deut. 20:1‑4• ¹When thou goest out to war against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more numerous than thou, thou shalt not fear them; for Jehovah thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
²And it shall be, when ye approach unto the battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak unto the people,
³and shall say unto them, Hear, Israel, ye are approaching this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be afraid of them;
⁴for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. (Deut. 20:1‑4)

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Deut. 31:3‑6• ³Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee, he will destroy these nations from before thee, that thou mayest take possession of them: Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath said.
⁴And Jehovah will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
⁵And when Jehovah giveth them up before you, ye shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
⁶Be strong and courageous, fear them not, neither be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God, he it is that goeth with thee; he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. (Deut. 31:3‑6)

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Josh. 1:2‑5• ²Moses my servant is dead; and now, rise up, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land which I give unto them, to the children of Israel.
³Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.
⁴From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
⁵None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. (Josh. 1:2‑5)

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2 Chron. 6:34• ³⁴If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name; (2 Chron. 6:34)

whithersoever.

Num. 31:1‑12• ¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
²Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.
³And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm from amongst you men for military service, that they go against Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance upon Midian.
⁴Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
⁵And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
⁶And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand by the tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, and the holy instruments, even the alarm-trumpets in his hand.
⁷And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.
⁸And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the others slain, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
⁹And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took for a spoil all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods;
¹⁰and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
¹¹And they took all the booty, and all the prey, of man and of cattle;
¹²and they brought to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the children of Israel, the captives and the prey and the booty, to the camp in the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan of Jericho. (Num. 31:1‑12)

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Josh. 6:2‑5• ²And Jehovah said to Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the valiant men.
³And ye shall go round the city, all the men of war, encompassing the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
⁴And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven blast-trumpets; and on the seventh day ye shall go round the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
⁵And it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with the blast-horn, that all the people on hearing the sound of the trumpet shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall flat, and the people shall go up, each one straight before him. (Josh. 6:2‑5)

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Josh. 8:1‑2• ¹And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed. Take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.
²And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it. (Josh. 8:1‑2)

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Judg. 1:1‑2• ¹And it came to pass after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked Jehovah, saying, Which of us shall go up against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
²And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. (Judg. 1:1‑2)

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Judg. 4:6• ⁶And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said to him, Hath not Jehovah the God of Israel commanded? Go and draw towards mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun, (Judg. 4:6)

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Judg. 6:14• ¹⁴And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have not I sent thee? (Judg. 6:14)

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1 Sam. 15:3,18• ³Now go and smite Amalek, and destroy utterly all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
¹⁸And Jehovah sent thee on a way and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. (1 Sam. 15:3,18)

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1 Sam. 30:8• ⁸And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he said to him, Pursue; for thou shalt assuredly overtake them and shalt certainly recover. (1 Sam. 30:8)

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2 Sam. 5:19,23• ¹⁹And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou give them into my hand? And Jehovah said to David, Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into thy hand.
²³And David inquired of Jehovah; and he said, Thou shalt not go up; turn round behind them and come upon them opposite the mulberry-trees. (2 Sam. 5:19,23)

shall pray.

2 Chron. 14:9‑12• ⁹And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against him with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
¹⁰And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
¹¹And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, it maketh no difference to thee to help, whether there be much or no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name have we come against this multitude. Jehovah, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
¹²And Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. (2 Chron. 14:9‑12)

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2 Chron. 18:31• ³¹And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, That is the king of Israel; and they surrounded him to fight; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and Jehovah helped him; and God diverted them from him. (2 Chron. 18:31)

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2 Chron. 20:6‑13• ⁶and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none can withstand thee.
⁷Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and given it for ever to the seed of Abraham, thy friend?
⁸And they have dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
⁹If evil come upon us, sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, and we stand before this house and before thee--for thy name is in this house--and cry unto thee in our distress, then thou wilt hear and save.
¹⁰And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from them, and destroyed them not,)
¹¹behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.
¹²Our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might in presence of this great company which cometh against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee.
¹³And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons. (2 Chron. 20:6‑13)

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2 Chron. 32:20• ²⁰And because of this, king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven. (2 Chron. 32:20)

toward the city.

Heb. the way of the city.

1 Kings 8:16• ¹⁶Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel. (1 Kings 8:16)

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Psa. 78:67‑69• ⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever. (Psa. 78:67‑69)

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Psa. 132:13‑14• ¹³For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:
¹⁴This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have desired it. (Psa. 132:13‑14)

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Dan. 9:17‑19• ¹⁷And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
¹⁸Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.
¹⁹Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. (Dan. 9:17‑19)

• Here (1 Kings 8:44-45) we find, not the shortcomings of the people, but Israel acting according to the will of God and guided by this will to wage war against her enemies. (“The Dedication of the Temple: 1 Kings 8” by H.L. Rossier)

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If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;