'Man of War' in the Bible

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

And this was the part marked out for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the oldest son of Joseph. As for Machir, the oldest son of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war he had Gilead and Bashan.

At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.

And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.

And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.

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;

Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.

The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.