23 Bible Verses about Ready For War

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.

It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive."

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

"You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.

"When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?