His Words Are Life

Deuteronomy 20:1 - Deuteronomy 23:4

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:17 Hi, and welcome to His Words Are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you for joining with me to read the
00:22 word of God.
00:23 Let's pray together before we start.
00:25 Dear God, thank You so much for these wonderful words that guide
00:30 us on firm paths.
00:32 And as we read how You guided the Israelites long ago, may we
00:36 take the lessons that You gave to them and apply them to our
00:39 lives today to bear fruit to Your glory.
00:41 We love You so much.
00:42 Thank You for loving us.
00:43 Amen.
00:46 We were reading in the book of Deuteronomy.
00:47 Moses has called the children of Israel together and reviewed
00:50 with them God's leading, and is now giving them the commands
00:54 of the Lord and saying to them you have two choices.
00:56 You can choose to obey and live a wonderful blessed life,
01:00 or you can choose to turn from the Lord your God, and you will
01:03 pay the price for that decision.
01:05 We're picking up in chapter 20.
01:06 This is the King James Version.
01:08 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies,
01:12 and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou,
01:15 be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee,
01:20 which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
01:22 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,
01:25 that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
01:28 and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
01:33 unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts
01:36 faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified
01:41 because of them; for the Lord your God is he that goeth with
01:45 you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
01:49 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying,
01:53 What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not
01:56 dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die
02:00 in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
02:02 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
02:05 yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,
02:09 lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
02:12 And what man is there that hath bethrothed a wife, and hath not
02:16 taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in
02:20 the battle, and another man take her.
02:21 And the officers shall speak further unto the people,
02:26 and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful
02:29 and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house,
02:32 lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
02:36 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
02:39 speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the
02:42 armies to lead the people.
02:44 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,
02:48 then proclaim peace unto it.
02:51 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto
02:55 thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein
02:58 shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
03:01 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
03:05 against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: and when the Lord
03:09 thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite
03:13 every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
03:15 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle,
03:18 and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof,
03:21 shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of
03:25 thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
03:28 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
03:32 from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
03:35 But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God
03:39 doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save
03:42 alive nothing that breatheth: but thou shalt utterly destroy
03:47 them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites,
03:51 and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord
03:55 thy God hath commanded thee: that they teach you not to do
03:59 after all their abominations, which they have done unto their
04:02 gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
04:05 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
04:09 against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
04:13 thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of
04:16 them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
04:23 trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
04:26 thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build
04:30 bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
04:32 until it be subdued.
04:34 We're continuing in Deuteronomy, chapter 21.
04:37 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God
04:43 giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
04:47 known who hath slain him: then thy elders and thy judges shall
04:51 come forth and they shall measure unto the cities which
04:54 are round about him that is slain: and it shall be,
04:57 that the city which is next unto the slain man,
05:00 even the elders of that city shall take a heifer,
05:03 which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn
05:06 in the yoke; and the elders of that city shall bring down the
05:10 heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown,
05:13 and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the
05:17 valley: and the priests and sons of Levi shall come near;
05:21 for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him,
05:25 and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall
05:29 every controversy and every stroke be tried: and all the
05:33 elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
05:36 shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the
05:39 valley: and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed
05:43 this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
05:47 Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
05:51 redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people
05:55 of Israel's charge.
05:57 And the blood shall be forgiven them.
05:59 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
06:03 you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight
06:06 of the Lord.
06:07 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies,
06:11 and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands,
06:14 and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the
06:17 captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her,
06:20 that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; then thou shalt bring
06:23 her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare
06:27 her nails; and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from
06:30 off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her
06:34 father and her mother a full month: and after that thou
06:37 shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall
06:41 be thy wife.
06:42 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt
06:46 let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all
06:50 for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou
06:53 hast humbled her.
06:55 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated,
06:59 and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;
07:03 and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: then it
07:08 shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he
07:11 hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn
07:15 before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
07:19 but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,
07:23 by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he
07:27 is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
07:29 firstborn is his.
07:31 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
07:36 obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother,
07:39 and that, when they have chastened him, will not harken
07:42 unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold
07:46 on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto
07:49 the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his
07:53 city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not
07:57 obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
08:01 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones,
08:04 that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you;
08:09 and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
08:12 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
08:17 to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: his body
08:22 shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any
08:26 wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of
08:30 God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God
08:34 giveth thee for an inheritance.
08:36 We're continuing now in Deuteronomy, chapter 22.
08:40 This is the King James Version.
08:42 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
08:46 and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring
08:49 them again unto thy brother.
08:51 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
08:55 not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house,
08:58 and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it,
09:01 and thou shalt restore it to him again.
09:03 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou
09:08 do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy
09:11 brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou
09:15 do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
09:19 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the
09:24 way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him
09:27 to lift them up again.
09:29 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
09:33 neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that
09:37 do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
09:40 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any
09:46 tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs,
09:50 and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs,
09:53 thou shalt not take the dam with the young: but thou shalt in
09:58 any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee;
10:00 that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest
10:03 prolong thy days.
10:04 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
10:09 battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon
10:12 thine house, if any man fall from thence.
10:15 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the
10:19 fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy
10:22 vineyard, be defiled.
10:24 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
10:28 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen
10:32 and linen together.
10:33 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
10:37 vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
10:40 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
10:45 and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an
10:49 evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came
10:53 to her, I found her not a maid: then shall the father of the
10:58 damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the
11:03 damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
11:06 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
11:10 daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; and, lo,
11:15 he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying,
11:18 I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of
11:23 my daughter's virginity.
11:24 And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
11:28 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
11:31 him; and they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver,
11:36 and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath
11:39 brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
11:42 be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
11:47 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
11:52 found for the damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel
11:55 to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city
11:58 shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath
12:01 wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house:
12:05 so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
12:09 If a man be found lying with a women married to a husband,
12:13 then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with
12:17 the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away
12:20 evil from Israel.
12:21 If a damsel that is a virgin be bethrothed unto a husband,
12:26 and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; then ye shall
12:30 bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall
12:33 stone them with stones that they die; the damsel,
12:37 because she cried not, being in the city; and the man,
12:41 because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt
12:45 put away evil from among you.
12:47 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
12:51 force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with
12:54 her shall die: but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing;
12:58 man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this
13:04 matter: for he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel
13:08 cried, and there was none to save her.
13:11 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,
13:13 and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
13:18 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
13:21 father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife;
13:25 because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away
13:29 all his days.
13:32 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover
13:33 his father's skirt.
13:37 We're continuing in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 23,
13:38 and this is the King James Version.
13:42 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member
13:44 cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
13:51 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord;
13:54 even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the
13:57 congregation of the Lord.
14:02 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation
14:03 of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter
14:07 into the congregation of the Lord for ever: because they met
14:11 you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came
14:15 forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam
14:18 the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
14:22 Thank you for joining with me today to read the Bible
14:27 together.
14:31 And until next time goodbye, and God bless.


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