21 Bible Verses about Ready For War

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;

Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:

This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,

Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

See, then, that you have a change of heart; or I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him?

For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?