58 Bible Verses about War

Most Relevant Verses

Psalm 18:34

Teaching my hands to war, and a bow of brass was bent by mine arms.

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?

Numbers 10:9

And when ye shall go out to war in your land against the enemy pressing you, and ye sounded the signal in the trumpets; and ye were remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye were saved from your enemies.

Joel 3:9

Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.

Psalm 55:21

They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.

Isaiah 42:13

Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.

Joshua 14:11

Yet I this day strong as in the day Moses sent me; as my strength then and so my strength now, for war, to go out and to come in.

Deuteronomy 2:16

And it will be as when all the men of war were finished to die from the midst of the people,

1 Timothy 1:18

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;

Deuteronomy 20:1

When thou shalt go forth to war against thine enemy, and thou sawest horse and chariot, a multitude of people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God is with thee, he bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt

Jeremiah 51:20

Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee;

1 Kings 22:6

And the king of Israel will gather together the prophets, about four hundred men, and he will say to them. Shall I go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or shall I desist? and they will say, Go up; and Jehovah will give into the hand of the king.

Revelation 20:8

And he shall go forth to deceive the nations that in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for war: whose number as the sand of the sea.

Job 38:23

Which I kept back for the time of straits, for the day of encounter and war?

2 Samuel 3:1

And long war will be between the house of Saul and between the house of David: and David went and was strengthened, and the house of Saul went and was weakened.

2 Samuel 1:27

How have the powerful fallen and the vessels of war perished.

Job 5:20

In famine he redeemed thee from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.

Isaiah 41:12

Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; the man of thy contention, the men of thy war, shall be as nothing and as no more.

Luke 21:9

And when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these must first be; but the end not immediately.

Zechariah 14:3

And Jehovah went forth and waged war with these nations as the day of his warring in the day of encounter.

Numbers 31:27

And divide the spoil between them taking hold of the battle, going forth to war, and between all the assembly:

1 Samuel 14:20

And Saul will be convoked and all the people which were with him, and they will go even to the battle: and behold, the sword of a man will be against his neighbor, a very great confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:8

For also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

Micah 3:5

Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:

Mark 13:7

And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet.

2 Samuel 21:15

And yet there will be war to the rovers with Israel; and David will go down, and his servants with him, and they will fight with the rovers: and David will be faint

2 Samuel 22:35

Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

Psalm 140:7

O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.

1 Samuel 16:18

And one of his boys will answer and say, I saw a son to Jesse of the House of Bread, knowing to play, mighty of strength, and a man of war, and discerning the word, and a man of figure, and Jehovah with him.

Deuteronomy 20:4

For Jehovah your God goes with you to war with you against your enemies, to save you.

Job 38:22

Didst thou come into the treasures of snow? and shalt thou see the treasures of hail,

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

1 Chronicles 28:3

And God said to me, Thou shalt not build a house to my name, for thou a man of war, and thou didst pour out bloods.

From Thematic Bible


Camels » Used for » War

1 Samuel 30:17

And David will smite them from the dawn and even to the evening to their morrow: and a man escaped not from them, except four hundred men of youth who rode upon camels, and they will flee.

Judges 7:12

And Midain and Amalek, and all the sons of the east, encamping in the valley, as the locust for multiude; and to their camels no number, as the sand which is upon the lip of the sea for multitude.

David » King of israel » Message » Sent » Misunderstood » War

Israel » Under the judges » Scandal » Concubine » War

Israel » Asa » Treaty » King of syria » benhadad » War

1 Kings 15:16-24

And war was between Asa and between Baasha, king of Israel, all their days. And Baasha, king of Israel, will come up against Judah, and he will build Ramah, so that he will not give to go out or to come in to Asa king of Judah. And Asa will take all the silver and the gold being left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and he will give them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa will send them to the son of Hadad, son of Tabrimon, son of Hezion, king of Aram, dwelling in Damascus, saying, read more.
A covenant between me and between thee, between my father and between thy father: behold, I sent to thee a gift of silver and gold; go break thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he will go up from me. And the son of Hadad will hear to king Asa, and he will send the chiefs of the forces which were to him against the cities of Israel, and he will strike Ijon and Dan, and the meadow of the House of Oppression, and all Cinneroth with all the land of Naphtali. And it will be when Baasha heard, and he will leave off building Ramah, and he will dwell in Tirzah. And king Asa caused all Judah to hear; none free: and they will lift up the stones of Ramah and its woods which Baasha built, and king Asa will build with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpeh. And the remainder of all the words of Asa and all his power and all which he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written upon the book of the words of the days to the kings of Judah? only at the time of his old age, he hurt his feet And Asa will lie down with his fathers, and be buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son will reign in his stead.

Israel » Judah » Invaded » By samaria » War

2 Kings 16:5-9

Then Rezin king of Aram will go up, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to war: and they will press upon Ahaz, and they will not be able to fight In that time Rezin king of Aram turned back Elath to Aram, and he will cast out the Jews from Elath, and the Aramites came to Elath and dwelt there even to this day. And Ahaz will send messengers to lath-Pileser, king of Assur, saying, I thy servant and thy son: come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel rising up against me. read more.
And Ahaz will take the silver and the gold found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and send a gift to the king of Assur. And the king of Assur will hear to him and the king of Assur will come up to Damascus and seize it, and carry the city into exile; and he killed Rezin.

Israel » Under the judges » War » Ephraimites » defeated » Jephthah

Judges 12:1-7

And a man of Ephraim will cry out and will pass over north, and they will say to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to war against the sons of Ammon and didst not call to us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah will say to them, I was a man of strife, I and my people and the sons of Ammon greatly; and I shall cry out to you, and ye saved me not from their hands. And I shall see that thou savest not, and I shall put my soul in my hand, and I shall pass over to the sons of Ammon, and Jehovah will give them into my hand: and wherefore came ye up to me this day to war against me? read more.
And Jephthah will gather together all the men of Gilead, and he will war with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead will strike Ephraim because they said, The escaped of Ephraim, ye of Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh. And Gilead will take the passages of Jordan before Ephraim: and it was that the escaped of Ephraim will say, I will pass over; and the men of Gilead will say to him, Thou an Ephrathite? and he will say, No. And they will say to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he will say, Sibboleth and he will not form to speak thus. And they will seize him and they will slaughter him at the passages of Jordan. And there will fall in that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand. And Jephthah will judge Israel six years: and Jephthah the Gileadite will die, and will be buried in the city of Gilead.

Israel » Hoshea » History of » War » Two kingdoms

1 Kings 14:30

And war was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.

Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » War

Leviticus 26:25

And I brought upon you the sword to avenge vengeance of the covenant: and ye were gathered into your cities and I sent death in the midst of you, and ye were given into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:32-33

And I laid the land waste, and your enemies were astonished at it, they dwelling upon it And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation.

Ships » Employed in » War

Numbers 24:24

And ships from the hand of the Cyprians, and they afflicted Assyria, and they afflicted Heber, and he also perished forever.

Daniel 11:30

And the inhabitants of the desert, the Chittims came against him: and he was dejected, and he turned back, and was angry against the holy covenant: and he did, and turned back; and he shall understand for those forsaking the holy covenant

Daniel 11:40

And in the time of the end the king of the south shall wage war with him: and the king of the north shall rush on like a tempest against him, with chariot and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he came into the lands, and overflowed and passed through.

Song » War

Exodus 15:1-21

Then will Moses sing, and the sons of Israel, this song to Jehovah; and they will speak, saying, I will sing to Jehovah, for exalting himself, he was exalted: the horse and his horsemen he threw into the sea. Jehovah my strength and song, and he shall be to me for salvation: this my God, and I will cause him to rest; the God of my father, and I will exalt him. Jehovah, a man of war: Jehovah his name. read more.
The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he threw into the sea; his chosen rulers sank in the sea of sedge. The depths will cover them: they will go down into the deep as a stone. Thy right hand, Jehovah, was magnified in strength: thy right hand, Jehovah, will break in pieces the enemy. And in the multitude of thy majesty thou wilt destroy those rising up against thee: thou wilt send forth thine anger; it shall eat them as straw. And by the spirit of thine anger the waters shook them off, the flowings stood up as a heap: the depths were contracted in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will enclose, I will divide the spoil: my soul shall be filled with them: I will draw out my sword, my hand shall dispossess them. Thou didst blow with thy spirit; the sea covered them: they rolled down as lead in the great waters. Who like thee among the gods, O Jehovah? who like thee magnified in in holiness, wonderful in praise, doing a wonder? Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, the earth will swallow them. Thou didst lead in thy kindness this people thou didst redeem: thou didst conduct with thy strength to thy holy dwelling. The peoples heard, and they will be angry: pain took those inhabiting Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom trembled; the mighty of Moab, trembling, shall take them; all those dwelling in Canaan melted away. Dread shall fall upon them and terror: by the greatness of thine arm they shall be dumb as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Jehovah: till this people pass over, thou didst buy. Thou shalt bring them in and shalt plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, into the place of thy Sabbath, thou didst make, O Jehovah: a holy place, O Jehovah, which thy hands prepared. Jehovah shall reign forever and yet For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen, into the sea, and Jehovah will turn back over them the water of the sea: and the sons of Israel went on the dry land in the midst of the sea. And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, will take the drum in her hand; and all the women will go forth after her, with drums and with lutes. And Miriam will sing to them, Sing ye to Jehovah; for being lifted up, he was lifted up: the horse and his horseman he threw into the sea.

2 Samuel 1:19-27

The beauty of Israel was wounded upon thy heights: how have the powerful fallen Ye shall not announce in Gath, ye shall not announce the good news in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the rovers shall rejoice--lest the daughters of the uncircumcised shall exult Mountains of Gilboa, no dew and no rain upon you, and fields of offerings: for there the shield of the powerful was cast away--the shield of Saul as not anointed with oil. read more.
From the blood of the wounded and from the fat of the powerful, the bow of Jonathan drew not back in the rear, and the sword of Saul will not turn back empty. Saul and Jonathan beloved and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not separated: they were swift above eagles, they were strong above lions. Daughters of Israel weep for Saul, having clothed you with scarlet, with delights; bringing up ornaments of gold upon your garments. How have the powerful fallen in the midst of the battle Jonathan wounded upon the heights! Distress to me for thee, my brother Jonathan: thou wert sweet to me exceedingly: thy love to me was wonderful above the love of women. How have the powerful fallen and the vessels of war perished.

Numbers 21:27-30

For this they will say, using parables, Come ye to Heshbon; the city of Sihon shall be built and prepared. For a fire shall come forth from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of Arnon. Wo to thee, Moab! thou wert destroyed, O people of Chemosh: he gave his sons escaping, and his daughters, into captivity to the king of the Amorites, Sihon. read more.
And we shall shoot them; Heshbon was destroyed, even to Dibon, and the women even to Nophah, which is to Medeba

War » Horrors of

2 Samuel 12:31

And the people which were in it he brought forth, and he will put at the saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron, and at axes of iron, and caused them to pass over through the brick-kiln: and thus he will do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 20:3

And he brought out the people that were in it, and he will contend with the saw and with threshing-sledges of iron, and with saws. And David will do thus to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back and all the people, to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 13:16

And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, and their houses shall be plundered, and their wives shall be ravished.

Isaiah 19:2

And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 9:5

For every shoe of the shod with trembling, and a garment being rolled in bloods; and it was for burning the food of fire.

War » Of extermination

Joshua 6:24

And they burnt the city in fire and all which is in it: only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and iron they gave to the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 3:6

And we shall exterminate them as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, exterminating men, women, and little ones.

Joshua 6:21

And they will devote all which in the city, from man and even to woman, and from the youth even to the old man, and ox and sheep and ass, to the mouth of the sword.

Numbers 31:7-17

And they will go forth against Midian as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they killed every male. And they killed the kings of Midian upon those being slain: Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: and they killed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword. And the sons of Israel will take captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle, and all their possessions, and they plundered all their strength. read more.
And their cities with their dwellings, and all their walls they burnt in fire. And they will take all the plunder and all the spoil, in man and in cattle. And they will bring to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the sons of Israel, the captivity and the spoil and the plunder, to the camp to the desert of Moab, which is by Jordan of Jericho. And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the chiefs of the assembly will come forth to their meeting without the camp. And Moses will be angry against the officers of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds coming from the war of the battle. And Moses will say to them, Preserved ye alive every female? Behold, they were to the sons of Israel by the word of Balaam for separating treacherously against Jehovah, concerning the word of Peor; and there will be a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah. And now kill every male among the little ones; and every woman know in man by the bed of a male, do ye kill.

Deuteronomy 2:33-34

Jehovah our God will give him before us; and he smote him and his sons and all his people. And we shall take all his cities in that time, and we shall exterminate every city of men and women and the little ones; we left none to escape.

War » General references to

Genesis 14:2

Made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, this is Zoar.

2 Samuel 22:35

Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.

Psalm 27:3

If a camp shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: if war shall rise up against me, in this I trust

Revelation 6:4

And another horse came forth fiery red: and it was given to him sitting upon him to take peace from the earth, and that they should slaughter one another: and a great sword was given to him.

More verses: Matthew 24:6

War » Inflicts defeat in

Psalm 76:3

There he broke the lightnings of the bow, the shield and the sword, and war. Silence

Psalm 79:10

Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? He will make known among the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy servants being poured out.

2 Chronicles 24:23-24

And it will be at the circuit of the year, the power of Aram came up against him: and they will come to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroy all the chiefs of the people from the people, and all their spoil they sent to the king of Darmesek. For with a smallness of men came the army of Aram, and Jehovah gave into their hand an army to a great multitude, for they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers. And they did judgment with Joash.

Joshua 7:12-13

And the sons of Israel shall not be able to rise up before their enemies; they will turn the neck before their enemies for they were for a devoted thing: I will not add to be with you if ye ill not destroy the devoted thing from the midst of you. Arise, consecrate the people, and say, Be ye consecrated for the morrow: for thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, A devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou shalt not be able to rise up before thine enemy till your removing the devoted thing from the midst of you.

2 Chronicles 12:5-8

And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and the chiefs of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem from the face of Shishak, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Ye forsook me, and I also left you in the hand of Shishak. And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just. And in Jehovah's seeing that they humbled themselves, the word of Jehovah was to Shemaiah, saying, They humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, and I gave to them as a little for deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. read more.
For they shall be to him for servants; and they shall know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.

War » God » Gives the victory in

Numbers 21:3

And Jehovah will hear to the voice of Israel, and he will give the Canaanite, and he will exterminate them and their cities: and he will call the name of the place Hormah.

Deuteronomy 2:33

Jehovah our God will give him before us; and he smote him and his sons and all his people.

Deuteronomy 3:3

And Jehovah our God will give into our hand also Og, king of Bashan, and all his people: and we shall smite him till none remained to him escaping.

2 Samuel 23:10

He arose, and he will strike against the rovers till that his hand will be weary, and his hand will cleave to the sword: and Jehovah will do a great salvation in that day; and they sat down behind him only to strip off.

War » Counsels of

2 Samuel 16:20

And Absalom will say to Ahithophel, Bring counsel to yourselves what we shall do.

2 Samuel 17:1-15

And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, I will now choose twelve thousand men. and I will rise and pursue after David this night: And I shall come upon him and he being weary and relaxed in hands, and I made him afraid: and all the people which are with him, fleeing; and I struck the king alone, And I will turn back all the people to thee: as the turning back of all, the man whom thou seekest; and to all the people shall be peace. read more.
And the word will be straight in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the old men of Israel. And Absalom will say, Call now also for Hushai the Archite, and we will hear also, what is in his mouth. And Hushai will come to Absalom, and Absalom will say to him, saying, According to this word spake Ahithophel: shall we do his word? if not, speak thou. And Hushai will say to Absalom, The counsel which Ahithophel counseled is not good in this time. And Hushai will say, Thou knewest thy father and his men that they are mighty, and they bitter of soul as a bear bereaved of offspring in the field: and thy father a man of war, and he will not lodge with the people. Behold now, he hid in one of the pits, or in one of the places: and it being when there fell among them in the beginning, and he hearing heard and said, was a slaughter among the people which are after Absalom. And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him. For I counseled being gathered, all Israel shall be gathered to thee from Dan and even to the Well of the Oath, as the sand which is upon the sea for multitude; and thy face going in the midst of them. And we came upon him in one of the places which we shall find there, and we upon him as the dew will fall upon the earth: and we will not leave of him and of all the men which are with him, even one. And if he shall be gathered into the city, and all Israel shall lift up ropes to that city, and we dragged it even to the torrent, till we shall not find there even a stone. And Absalom will say, and every man of Israel, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is good above the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah commanded to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel so that Jehovah brought evil upon Absalom. And Hushai will say to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, According to this, and according to this, Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the old men of Israel; and according to this and according to this, I counseled.

Joshua 22:10-34

And they will come to the circuits of Jordan, which are in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh will build there an altar upon Jordan, a great altar for seeing. And the sons of Israel will hear saying, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar over against the land of Canaan, at the circuits of Jordan, at the passing over of the sons of Israel. And the sons of lIsrael will hear, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be gathered together at Shiloh to go up to war against them. read more.
And the sons of Israel will send to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest, And ten chiefs with him, one chief, one chief, to the house of a father for all the tribes of Israel; and each the head of the house of their fathers, these for the thousands of Israel. And they will come to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh to the land of Gilead, and they will speak with them, saying, Thus said all the assembly of Jehovah, What transgression this which ye transgressed against the God of Israel to turn back this day from after Jehovah, in your building to you an altar for your rebellion this day against Jehovah? Was the iniquity of Peor little for us, which we were not cleansed from it till this day, and there will be a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah? And will ye turn back this day from after Jehovah? and it will be ye will rebel this day against Jehovah, and to-morrow be will be angry towards all the assembly of Israel. And surely, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over for yourselves to the land of the possession of Jehovah, where the dwelling of Jehovah dwelt there, and take possession in the midst of us: and ye shall not rebel against Jehovah, and ye shall not rebel against us in your building to yourselves an altar beside the altar of Jehovah our God. Did not Achan transgress a transgression in the devoted thing, and upon all the assembly of Israel was wrath? and that man died not alone in his iniquity. And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh will answer and will speak to the heads of the thousands of Israel, The God of gods, Jehovah, the God of gods, Jehovah he will know, and Israel he will know; if in rebellion and if in transgression against Jehovah, thou shalt not save us this day; To build to us an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to bring up upon it a burnt-offering and a gift, and if to do upon it sacrifices of peace Jehovah he will search; And if we did not do this from fear of the word, saying, To-morrow your sons will say to our sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah the God of Israel Jehovah gave the bound of our sons and your sons, ye sons of Reuben and sons of Gad; Jordan not to you a part in Jehovah. And your sons caused our sons to cease from fearing Jehovah. And we shall say, We will do now for ourselves to build an altar, not for burnt-offerings and not for sacrifice: But this a witness between us and between you, and between our generations after us, to serve the service of Jehovah before him with our burnt-offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace-offerings; and your sons shall not say, To-morrow, to our sons, not to you, a part in Jehovah. And we shall say, and it was that they shall say to us and to our generations to-morrow, and we said, See the model of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering and not for sacrifice; but this a witness between us and between you. Wo to us from him to rebel against Jehovah, and to turn back this day from after Jehovah to build an altar for burnt-offering, for a gift and for sacrifice beside the altar of Jehovah our God which is before his tent And Phinehas the priest will hear, and the chiefs of the assembly, and the heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spake, and it will be good in their eyes. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest will say to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasseh, This day we knew that Jehovah is in the midst of us, because ye transgressed not this transgression against Jehovah: then ye delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of Jehovah. And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, will turn back, and the chiefs, from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and will turn back to them the word. And the word will be good in the eves of the sons of Israel; and the sons of Israel will bless God, and they said not to go up against them to war to destroy the land which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad dwelt in it And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad will call to the altar: for it is a witness between us that Jehovah is their God.

War » Bloody

1 Samuel 14:22

And every man of Israel being hid in mount Ephraim, heard that the rovers fled, and they will cleave together, also they after them in the battle.

1 Chronicles 5:22

For many fell down wounded, for the war was from God. And they dwelt in their stead even to the exile.

2 Chronicles 28:6

And Pekah son of Remaliah will kill in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, the whole sons of strength; in their forsaking Jehovah the God of their fathers

2 Chronicles 14:13

And Asa will pursue them, and the people which were with him, even to the lodging-place: and there will fall from the Cushites to nothing being to them, for they were broken before Jehovah, and before his camp; and they will lift up exceeding much spoil.

War » Threatens defeat in

1 Samuel 2:10

Jehovah, they contending against him, shall be broken; in the heavens he will break them in pieces: Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth, and he will give strength to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his Messiah.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword shall bereave without, And terror from the chambers, Also the youth, also the virgin, The suckling, with the man of gray hair.

2 Chronicles 18:12-16

And the messenger who went to call for Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets with one mouth good to the king; and now will thy word be as one of them, and speak good. And Micaiah will say, Jehovah lives, for what God shall say I shall speak it. And he will come to the king, and the king will say to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or shall I desist? And he will say, Go ye up and prosper, and they shall be given into your hand. read more.
And the king will say to him, Even how many times do I cause thee to swear that thou wilt speak to me only the truth in the name of Jehovah? And he will say, I saw all Israel being dispersed upon the mountains as sheep which not to them a shepherd: and Jehovah will say, No lords to these; they shall turn back each to his house in peace.

Isaiah 30:15-17

For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not. And ye will say, No; for upon horses we will flee: for this ye shall flee: and upon the swift will we ride; for this they pursuing you shall be swift. One thousand from before the rebuke of one; from before the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye were left as a mast upon the head of the mountain, and as a signal upon the hill.

Ezekiel 15:6-8

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the tree of the vine upon the tree of the forest which I gave it to the fire for consuming, thus I gave the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I gave my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, and the fire shall consume them; and they knew that I am Jehovah in my setting my face against them. And I gave the land a desolation, because they transgressed a transgression, says the Lord Jehovah.

More verses: Ezekiel 21:9-17

War » Jewish laws concerning

Deuteronomy 23:9

When the camp shall go forth against thine enemies, and watch thyself from every evil word.

Deuteronomy 20:2

And it was in your coming near to the war, and the priest approached and spake to the people,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?

War » Illustrative of » The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation

1 Timothy 1:18

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;

War » Civil

Isaiah 19:2

And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

2 Samuel 3:1

And long war will be between the house of Saul and between the house of David: and David went and was strengthened, and the house of Saul went and was weakened.

1 Kings 14:30

And war was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.

Judges 12:1-6

And a man of Ephraim will cry out and will pass over north, and they will say to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to war against the sons of Ammon and didst not call to us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah will say to them, I was a man of strife, I and my people and the sons of Ammon greatly; and I shall cry out to you, and ye saved me not from their hands. And I shall see that thou savest not, and I shall put my soul in my hand, and I shall pass over to the sons of Ammon, and Jehovah will give them into my hand: and wherefore came ye up to me this day to war against me? read more.
And Jephthah will gather together all the men of Gilead, and he will war with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead will strike Ephraim because they said, The escaped of Ephraim, ye of Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh. And Gilead will take the passages of Jordan before Ephraim: and it was that the escaped of Ephraim will say, I will pass over; and the men of Gilead will say to him, Thou an Ephrathite? and he will say, No. And they will say to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he will say, Sibboleth and he will not form to speak thus. And they will seize him and they will slaughter him at the passages of Jordan. And there will fall in that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

2 Samuel 2:12-31

And Abner son of Ner, will go forth. and the servants of the man of shame, son of Saul, from the two camps to the hill And Joab son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, will go forth and meet them at the pool of Gibeon together: and these will sit by the pool from hence, and those by the pool from thence. And Abner will say to Joab, Now shall the boys arise and play before us. And Joab will say, They shall arise. read more.
And they will rise and pass over by number, twelve to Benjamin, and to the man of shame, son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. And they will seize each upon the head of his neighbor, and his sword in the side of his neighbor, and they will fall together: and he will call, that place Helkath-Hazurim, which is in Gibeon. And the war will be hard even exceedingly, in that day; and Abner will be smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. And there will be there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as one of the roes which are in the field. And Asahel will pursue after Abner; and he turned not to the right or to the left from after Abner. And Abner will look behind him and say, This thou Asahel? And he will say, I. And Abner will say to him,. Turn to thyself to the right or to the left, and take hold for thyself from the boys and take to thee his spoils. And Asahel would not turn aside from after him. And Abner will add yet to say to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from after me: wherefore shall I strike thee to the earth? and how shall I lift up my face to Joab thy brother? And he will refuse to turn aside: and Abner will strike him with the extremity of the spear in the belly, and the spear will come forth from behind him, and he will fall there and die in his place: and it will be, all coming to the place where Asahel fell there and he will die, and they will stand. And Joab and Abishai will pursue after Abner: and the sun went down and they came even to the hill of terror, which was by the face of Giah, the way of the desert of Gibeon. And the sons of Benjamin will gather together after Abner, and they will be for one band, and they will stand upon the head of one hill. And Abner will call to Joab and say, Shall the sword consume forever? knewest thou not that it will be bitter at the last? and how long wilt thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren? And Joab will say, God lives if thou spakest not, for then from the morning the people went up, each from after his brother. And Joab will strike upon the trumpet, and all the people will stand, and no more pursue after Israel, and they will no more add to fight. And Abner and his men went in the sterile region all that night, and they will pass over Jordan and will go to all Bithron, and will come to the two camps. And Joab turned back from after Abner: and he will gather all the people together and they will review from the servants of David nineteen men and Asahel. And the servants of David struck from Benjamin and upon the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men died.

More verses: 1 Kings 16:21

War » To cease, an era of peace prophesied

Isaiah 2:4

And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Micah 4:3

And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Hosea 2:18

And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently.

Zechariah 9:10

And I cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war was cut off: and he spake peace to the nations: and his dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the end of the earth.

Psalm 46:9

Causing wars to cease even to the end of the earth; he will break the bow, and be cut off the spear, and he will burn the cars in fire.

War » Figurative » Is against » The Devil

Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went out to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

More verses: Ephesians 1:12

War » The jews » Frequently engaged in

1 Kings 15:16

And war was between Asa and between Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

1 Kings 14:30

And war was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.

1 Kings 15:7

And the remainder of the words of Abijam, and all which he did, are they not written upon the book of the words of the days to the kings of Judah? and war was between Abijam and Jeroboam.

War » Illustrative of » The contest between antiChrist and the church

Revelation 11:7

And when they should finish their testimony, the wild beast coming up out of the abyss shall wage war with them, and shall conquer them, and kill them.

Revelation 13:4

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the wild beast: and they worshipped the wild beast, saying, Who like the beast? who shall be able to war with him

War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh

1 Corinthians 9:25-27

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

War » Often attended by » Famine

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.

Jeremiah 14:15

For this, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets prophesying in my name, and I sent them not, and they saying, The sword and famine shall not be in this land; by the sword and by famine shall these prophets die.

Isaiah 51:19

These two encountering thee; who shall be moved for thee? desolation and breaking, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

War » The jews » Were expert in

1 Chronicles 12:33

From Zebulon coming forth to the army, setting the battle in array with all the utensils of war, fifty thousand to set in order, with not a heart and a heart.

1 Chronicles 12:35-36

And from the Danites setting the battle in array, twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. And from Asher those going forth to the army to set the battle in array, forty thousand.

War » Figurative » Armor for » Over death and the grave

Hosea 13:14

From the hand of hades will I redeem them; from death will I ransom them: I will be thy words, O death, I will be thy cutting off, O hades: consolation will be hid from mine eyes.

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory. Where thine, death, the sting? where thine, hades, the victory

War » Requires

Proverbs 21:22

The wise one ascended the city of the strong, and he will bring down the strength of its confidence.

Ecclesiastes 9:14-18

A little city, and men in it few; and a great king came against it, and surrounded it, and built against it great entrenchments: And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man. And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard. read more.
The words of the wise being heard in quiet more than the cry of him ruling among the foolish. Wisdom is good above the instruments of encounter: and one sinning will destroy much good.

Luke 14:31-32

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him? And if he, yet being far off, having sent an embassy, asks things for peace.

War » Repugnant to God

Psalm 68:30

Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the assembly of the strong ones, with the heifers of the peoples, prostrating themselves with pieces of salver: scatter the peoples, they will delight in wars.

Revelation 13:10

If any bring together to captivity he shall proceed into captivity: if any shall kill with sword, he shall be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faith of the holy.

1 Chronicles 22:8-9

And the word of Jehovah will be upon me, saying, Thou didst pour out blood for abundance, and didst make great wars: thou shalt not build a house for my name, for thou didst pour out many bloods in the earth before me. Behold, a son being born to thee, he shall be a man of rest; and I caused rest to him from all his enemies from round about: for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give peace and quiet upon Israel in his days.

Psalm 120:6-7

My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace. I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.

War » Figurative » Armor for » Through Christ

Romans 7:25

I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

War » Figurative » Encouraged in

Isaiah 51:12

I, I am he comforting you: who thou? and shalt thou be afraid of man he shall die, and of the son of man shall be given for grass?

Micah 7:8

Thou shalt not rejoice against me, O mine enemy: if I fell I arose: if I shall sit in darkness, Jehovah a light to me.

Isaiah 41:11-12

Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; the man of thy contention, the men of thy war, shall be as nothing and as no more.

War » Strategy in

Judges 7:16

And he will divide the three hundred men into three beginnings, and he will give trumpets into the hand of them all, and empty buckets, and torches in the midst of the buckets.

Judges 20:32

And the sons of Benjamin will say, They are smitten before us as at first. And the sons of Israel said, We will flee, and draw him away from the city to the highways.

Joshua 8:5

And I and all the people that are with me will draw near to the city: and it was when they shall come forth to our meeting as at the first, and we fled before them.

War » Often attended by » Cruelty

Jeremiah 18:21

For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:11-14

They humbled the women in Zion the virgins in the cities of Judah. Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored. They took away the chosen ones to grind, and the young men were weak in the wood. read more.
Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.

War » Large armies frequently engaged in

2 Chronicles 14:9

And there will come forth against them Zerah the Cushite with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he will come even to Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 13:3

And Abijah will bind on the battle with the strength of the strong ones of war, four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam arranged the battle with him with eight hundred thou. sand, each chosen, strong of power.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With steadfastness in the faith

War » Often attended by » Pestilence

Jeremiah 27:13

Wherefore will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword and by famine and by death, as Jehovah spake against the nation who will not serve the king of Babel?

Jeremiah 28:8

The prophets which were before me and before thee from of old, and they will prophesy to many lands and against great kingdoms, for war and for evil and for death.

War » God » Frequently ordered

Exodus 17:16

For he will say, Because the hand upon the throne of Jehovah, war to Jehovah with Amalek from generation to generation.

Numbers 31:1-2

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Avenge the avenging of the sons of Israel of the Midianites: afterwards thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

War » Preceded by » Rumors

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

War » Figurative » Is against » death

Hebrews 2:14-15

Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery.

War » Preceded by » Consultation

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?

War » Figurative » Strengthened by God in

Psalm 20:2

He will send thy help from the holy place and from Zion he will support thee.

War » Enemy harangued by the general of the opposing side

2 Kings 18:19-36

And Rabshakeh will say to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Assur, What this confidence in which thou trustedst? Thou saidst (but a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for war Now upon whom didst thou trust that thou rebelledst against me? Now behold, thou trustedst to thyself, upon the stay of this broken reed, upon Egypt, which a man shall lean upon it and it will go into his hand and bore it; thus Pharaoh king of Egypt to all trusting upon him. read more.
And if ye shall say to me, We trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not he of whom Hezekiah turned away his heights and his altars, and he will say to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? And now become surety to my lord the king of Assur, and I will give to thee two thousand horses if thou shalt be able to give to thyself riders upon them. And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of my lord's servants of the least, and wilt thou trust to thyself upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Now came I up without Jehovah upon this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants in Syriac; for we hear: and thou shalt not speak with us in Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall And Rabshakeh will say to them, To thy lord and to thee did my lord send me to speak these words? is it not to the men sitting upon the wall to eat their dung and to drink their piss with you? And Rabshakeh will stand and call with a great voice in Judaic, and speak and say, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assur: Thus said the king, Hezekiah shall not be lifted up to you: for he shall not be able to deliver you from my hand: And Hezekiah shall cause you to trust to Jehovah, saying, Delivering, Jehovah will deliver us, and this same city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assur. Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assur, Make me a gift, and come forth to me, and eat ye a man his vine and a man his fig tree, and drink ye a man water of his well, Till my coming and I took you to a land as your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-oil and honey; and live ye, and ye shall not die: and ye shall not hear to Hezekiah, for he will seduce you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Delivering, did the gods of the nations deliver each his hand out of the hand of the king of Assur? Where the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? for did they deliver Shomemn out of my hand? Who of all the gods of the lands who delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah shall deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? And the people were silent and answered him not a word: for it was the command of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer.

2 Chronicles 13:4-12

And Abijah will rise up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and he will say, Hear me, Jeroboam, and all Israel; Is it not to you to know that Jehovah God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? And Jeroboam son of Nebat servant of Solomon son of David, will rise up and will rebel against his lord. read more.
And vain men will gather together to him, sons of Belial; and they will strengthen themselves against Rehoboam son of Solomon; and Rehoboam being young and tender of heart, and he was not strong before them. And now ye saying to be strengthened before the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye a great multitude, and with you calves of gold which Jeroboam made for you for gods. Did ye not thrust out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron and the Levites? and ye will make to you priests according to the peoples of the lands, every one coming to fill his hand with a bullock, son of the cow, and seven rams; and he was priest to no God. And we, Jehovah is our God, and we forsook him not; and the priests serving to Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in the work: And burning to Jehovah the burnt-offering in the morning, in the morning, and in the evening, in the evening, and incense of spices, and the arrangement of bread upon the pure table; and the chandelier of gold and its lamps to burn in the evening, in the evening: for we watch the watches of Jehovah our God; and ye forsook him. And behold, with us God for head, and his priests and trumpets of loud noise to cry against you. O ye sons of Israel, ye shall not wage war with Jehovah God of your fathers, for ye shall not prosper.

War » Wars and rumors of

Mark 13:7

And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet.

Luke 21:9

And when ye hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these must first be; but the end not immediately.

War » To cease

Isaiah 2:4

And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Micah 4:3

And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Psalm 46:9

Causing wars to cease even to the end of the earth; he will break the bow, and be cut off the spear, and he will burn the cars in fire.

War » Weapons used in

Judges 18:11

And they will remove from thence from the families of the Danites, and from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men girded with weapons of war.

Joshua 1:14

Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall dwell in the land which Moses gave to you on the other side Jordan; and ye shall pass over, being brave, before your brethren, all being strong, of the host, and help them;

War » Figurative » Helped by God in

Psalm 118:13

Being thrust, I was thrust down to fall, and Jehovah helped me.

Isaiah 41:13-14

For I Jehovah thy God holding thy right hand, saying to thee, Thou shalt not fear; I helped thee. Thou shalt not fear, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee, says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

War » Figurative » Armor for » By faith

1 John 5:4-5

For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith. Who is he conquering the world, if not he believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

Hebrews 11:33-37

Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions, Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers. Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection. read more.
And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

War » Figurative » Often arises from the opposition of friends or relatives

Matthew 10:35-36

For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies, they pertaining to his household.

War » Figurative » Is against » The world

1 John 5:4-5

For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith. Who is he conquering the world, if not he believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

War » Figurative » Is against » Enemies

Psalm 38:19

For I will announce mine iniquity: I shall be afraid for my sin.

Psalm 56:2

Mine enemies panted after me all the day: for many warring against me proudly.

Psalm 59:3

For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With prayer

Psalm 35:1-3

To David. Contend, O Jehovah, with them contending with me: fight with those fighting with me. Take hold of the shield and the buckler, and stand up for my help. Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

War » Figurative » Armor for » Victory in, is from God

War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the flesh

Romans 7:24-25

I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

War » Figurative » Strengthened by Christ in

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

War » Figurative » Exhorted to diligence in

Jude 1:3

Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.

War » Figurative » Thank God for victory in

Romans 7:25

I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With watchfulness

War » Figurative » Armor for » Must be put on

War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the devil

War » Figurative » Armor for » The helmet of salvation

War » Figurative » Armor for » Triumphant

War » Illustrative of » Our contest with death

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With sobriety

War » God » Strengthens his people for

Leviticus 26:7-8

And ye chased your enemies, and they fell before you to the sword. And five from you chased a hundred, and a hundred from you chased ten thousand: and your enemies fell before you to the sword.

War » A time for

War » Killed in, neglected

Isaiah 14:19

And thou wert east out of thy grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment of the slain thrust through with the sword, and going down to the stones of the pit as a corpse trodden down.

Isaiah 18:6

They shall be left together to the ravenous bird of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the ravenous bird summered upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

War » God » Taught his people the art of

2 Samuel 22:35

Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.

War » Records often kept of

Numbers 21:14

For this it will be said in the book of the wars of Jehovah, Giving in the whirlwind, and the torrents of Arnon.

War » Averted

Joshua 22:11-34

And the sons of Israel will hear saying, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar over against the land of Canaan, at the circuits of Jordan, at the passing over of the sons of Israel. And the sons of lIsrael will hear, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be gathered together at Shiloh to go up to war against them. And the sons of Israel will send to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest, read more.
And ten chiefs with him, one chief, one chief, to the house of a father for all the tribes of Israel; and each the head of the house of their fathers, these for the thousands of Israel. And they will come to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh to the land of Gilead, and they will speak with them, saying, Thus said all the assembly of Jehovah, What transgression this which ye transgressed against the God of Israel to turn back this day from after Jehovah, in your building to you an altar for your rebellion this day against Jehovah? Was the iniquity of Peor little for us, which we were not cleansed from it till this day, and there will be a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah? And will ye turn back this day from after Jehovah? and it will be ye will rebel this day against Jehovah, and to-morrow be will be angry towards all the assembly of Israel. And surely, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over for yourselves to the land of the possession of Jehovah, where the dwelling of Jehovah dwelt there, and take possession in the midst of us: and ye shall not rebel against Jehovah, and ye shall not rebel against us in your building to yourselves an altar beside the altar of Jehovah our God. Did not Achan transgress a transgression in the devoted thing, and upon all the assembly of Israel was wrath? and that man died not alone in his iniquity. And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh will answer and will speak to the heads of the thousands of Israel, The God of gods, Jehovah, the God of gods, Jehovah he will know, and Israel he will know; if in rebellion and if in transgression against Jehovah, thou shalt not save us this day; To build to us an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to bring up upon it a burnt-offering and a gift, and if to do upon it sacrifices of peace Jehovah he will search; And if we did not do this from fear of the word, saying, To-morrow your sons will say to our sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah the God of Israel Jehovah gave the bound of our sons and your sons, ye sons of Reuben and sons of Gad; Jordan not to you a part in Jehovah. And your sons caused our sons to cease from fearing Jehovah. And we shall say, We will do now for ourselves to build an altar, not for burnt-offerings and not for sacrifice: But this a witness between us and between you, and between our generations after us, to serve the service of Jehovah before him with our burnt-offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace-offerings; and your sons shall not say, To-morrow, to our sons, not to you, a part in Jehovah. And we shall say, and it was that they shall say to us and to our generations to-morrow, and we said, See the model of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering and not for sacrifice; but this a witness between us and between you. Wo to us from him to rebel against Jehovah, and to turn back this day from after Jehovah to build an altar for burnt-offering, for a gift and for sacrifice beside the altar of Jehovah our God which is before his tent And Phinehas the priest will hear, and the chiefs of the assembly, and the heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spake, and it will be good in their eyes. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest will say to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasseh, This day we knew that Jehovah is in the midst of us, because ye transgressed not this transgression against Jehovah: then ye delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of Jehovah. And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, will turn back, and the chiefs, from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and will turn back to them the word. And the word will be good in the eves of the sons of Israel; and the sons of Israel will bless God, and they said not to go up against them to war to destroy the land which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad dwelt in it And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad will call to the altar: for it is a witness between us that Jehovah is their God.

War » Frequently long continued

2 Samuel 3:1

And long war will be between the house of Saul and between the house of David: and David went and was strengthened, and the house of Saul went and was weakened.

War » Antiquity of

Genesis 14:2

Made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, this is Zoar.

War » Illustrative of » The malignity of the wicked

Psalm 55:21

They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.

War » Figurative » Must stand firm in

Ephesians 6:13-14

For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice;

War » Figurative » Is a good warfare

1 Timothy 1:18-19

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare; Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With self-denial

1 Corinthians 9:25-27

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With a good conscience

1 Timothy 1:18-19

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare; Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With faith

1 Timothy 1:18-19

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare; Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:

War » God » Scatters those who delight in

Psalm 68:30

Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the assembly of the strong ones, with the heifers of the peoples, prostrating themselves with pieces of salver: scatter the peoples, they will delight in wars.

War » God sends panic in

Exodus 15:14-16

The peoples heard, and they will be angry: pain took those inhabiting Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom trembled; the mighty of Moab, trembling, shall take them; all those dwelling in Canaan melted away. Dread shall fall upon them and terror: by the greatness of thine arm they shall be dumb as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Jehovah: till this people pass over, thou didst buy.

War » Often attended by » Devastation

Isaiah 1:7

Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With endurance of hardness

War » Figurative » Armor for » Mighty through God

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;) Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

War » God » Causes, to cease

Psalm 46:9

Causing wars to cease even to the end of the earth; he will break the bow, and be cut off the spear, and he will burn the cars in fire.

War » Often sent as a punishment for sin

Judges 5:8

He will choose new gods; Then war in the gates: If a shield was seen, and a lance, Among forty thousand in Israel

War » Figurative » Comforted by God in

2 Corinthians 7:5-6

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears. But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With confidence in God

Psalm 27:1-3

To David. Jehovah my light and my saviour; of whom shall I be afraid? Jehovah the strength of my life; from whom shall I tremble? In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell If a camp shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: if war shall rise up against me, in this I trust

War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the world

1 John 5:4-5

For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith. Who is he conquering the world, if not he believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

War » Divine approval of

2 Samuel 22:35

Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.

War » Originates in the lusts of men

War » Preceded by » Great preparation

Joel 3:9

Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.

War » Figurative » Saints are all engaged in

Philippians 1:30

Having the same struggle which ye saw in me, and now hear in me.

War » Figurative » Called the good fight of faith

War » Figurative » Delivered by Christ in

War » Figurative » Protected by God in

Psalm 140:7

O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.

War » Figurative » Warfare of saints » Is not after the flesh

War » Figurative » To be carried on » Under Christ, as our captain

War » Figurative » To be carried on » With earnestness

Jude 1:3

Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.

War » Figurative » Armor for » Not carnal

War » Figurative » Armor for » Over all that exalts itself

War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of God,"

War » Figurative » Armor for » The whole, is required

War » Figurative » Armor for » The breastplate of righteousness

War » Figurative » Armor for » The belt of truth

War » Figurative » Armor for » The preparation of the gospel

War » Figurative » Armor for » The shield of faith

War » Figurative » Armor for » The sword of the spirit

War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of light,"

War » Forbidden

2 Chronicles 11:4

Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, and ye shall not war with your brethren: turn ye back each to his house: for from me was this word. And they will hear the words of Jehovah and turn back from going against Jeroboam.

War » Figurative » Those who overcome in, will eat of the hidden manna

Revelation 2:17

He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving.

War » Figurative » Have a white stone, and in it a new name written

Revelation 2:17

He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving.

War » Figurative » Sit with Christ on his throne

War » Figurative » Have the morning star

War » Figurative » Have the name of God written upon them by Christ

Revelation 3:12

He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name.

War » Figurative » Mere professors do not maintain

Jeremiah 9:3

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

War » Figurative » Not be hurt by the second death

Revelation 2:11

He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death.

War » Figurative » Be pillars in the temple of God

Revelation 3:12

He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name.

War » Figurative » Have power over the nations

War » Figurative » Have God as their God

War » Figurative » Inherit all things

War » Figurative » To be carried on » Without earthly entanglements

War » Figurative » To be carried on » Under the lord's banner

War » Figurative » Be sons of God

War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of righteousness,"

War » Figurative » Armor for

War » In heaven » Symbolical

War » Figurative » Be confessed by Christ in the presence of God the father

War » Figurative » Be clothed in white clothing

War » Figurative » Eat from the tree of life

War » Figurative » Symbolized by a red horse

Revelation 6:4

And another horse came forth fiery red: and it was given to him sitting upon him to take peace from the earth, and that they should slaughter one another: and a great sword was given to him.

War » Figurative » Not have their names blotted out of the book of life

War » Tumult of

Amos 2:2

And I will send a fire upon Moab and it devoured the palaces of the cities, and Moab died with tumult, with a loud noise and with the voice of the trumpet:

Topics on War

Civil War

Joshua 22:12

And the sons of lIsrael will hear, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be gathered together at Shiloh to go up to war against them.

Horrors Of War

2 Samuel 12:31

And the people which were in it he brought forth, and he will put at the saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron, and at axes of iron, and caused them to pass over through the brick-kiln: and thus he will do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

No War

Jeremiah 42:14

Saying, No; for we will go to the land of Egppt where we shall not see war, and we shall not hear the voice of the trumpet, and for bread we shall not hunger: and there will we dwell.

Ready For War

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?

Spoils Of War

Genesis 34:28

Their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and what was in the city, and what in the field, they took.

War As God's Judgment

Leviticus 26:25

And I brought upon you the sword to avenge vengeance of the covenant: and ye were gathered into your cities and I sent death in the midst of you, and ye were given into the hand of the enemy.

Never miss a post

Related Readings

Theasaurus: War