23 Bible Verses about Ready For War

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

Who [is] the king of glory? Yahweh, strong and mighty; Yahweh, mighty in war!

{It came about in the spring}, at the time {kings} go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the {Ammonites} and besieged Rabbah, but David [was] remaining in Jerusalem.

But Moses said to the descendants of Gad and to the descendants of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here?

Proclaim this among the nations: {Prepare for war}! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; [let] all the men of war approach.

in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those {who had not experienced it} before):

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war--

He trains my hands for the war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

[He] trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive."

I [am for] peace, but when I speak, they [are] for war.

Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they [are] mighty warriors and they {are enraged} as a bear robbed of [her] offspring in the field. Your father [is] a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops.

"You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, {in view of the warfare} which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them under the soles of his feet.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord Yahweh concerning Edom:

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are {safe}.

I am setting before you this instruction, Timothy [my] child, in accordance with the prophecies spoken long ago about you, in order that by them you may fight the good fight,

extinguished the effectiveness of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, put to flight enemy battle lines.

Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth.

And they worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who [is] like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?

For indeed, if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but to Yahweh [belongs] the victory.

which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?