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About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.

Verse ConceptsMilitary Serviceequipping, physicalArmourWarriorsForty Thousand And Up

What follows is a listing of the divisions of battle-ready troops who joined David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, in accordance with what the LORD had spoken.

Verse ConceptsWeapons

The tribe of Dan supplied 28,600 battle-ready troops.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

The tribe of Asher supplied 40,000 experienced, battle-ready troops.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And Up

For they flee from the swords -- from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

Verse ConceptsHeatPeoples Who Fled

Non-Exact Match

You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!

Verse ConceptsBattlesVoicesBattle Cries

They have blown the trumpet and made all ready, but none goeth to the battle; for my fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetDesertionTrumpets For BattlePreparing For ActionNo War

How can you say, “We are warriors—
mighty men ready for battle”?

Verse Conceptsheroes

For I am perfectly informed of the LORD, that he hath sent a message already unto the Heathen. Gather you together, and go forth against them: make you ready to the battle,

Verse Conceptsenvoy

They skipped up upon the hills, as it were the sound of chariots; as the flame of fire that consumeth the straw, and as a mighty people ready to the battle.

Verse ConceptsNoiseLeapingWheelsAttacking With ChariotsCreatures JumpingBurning PlantsBangsRumbling

And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin. And the men of Israel put themselves in order, ready to fight against them at Gibeah.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationFighting One Another

On his right hand he is divining against Jerusalem, preparing to set up battering rams, preparing for the slaughter, getting ready to sound the alarm for battle, setting the battering rams in place at the gates, building siege mounds, and erecting a siege wall.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

All of them are wearing swords and are experienced in battle. Each has his sword on his thigh, ready for the terror of the night.

They grab bow and spear; they're cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea as they ride on horses, deployed like men ready for battle against you, daughter of Zion."

Verse Conceptsdaughtersequipping, physicalenemies, of Israel and JudahBackMercy, HumanSeaThings Like The SeaRoar Of NationsOppressorsSea, Metaphorical ReferencesPeople Without Mercy

They grab bow and spear. They're cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, as they ride on horses deployed like men ready for battle against you, daughter of Babylon.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalenemies, of Israel and JudahMercy, HumanSeaRoar Of NationsOppressorsSea, Metaphorical ReferencesPeople Without Mercy

Your wives, your young children, and your livestock will remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan River, but you and all your warriors will cross, ready for battle, in full view of your relatives, and you will help them

Verse ConceptsRiver CrossingsPeople HelpingBeyond JordanRules About Young People

All these were descendants through Jediael according to the heads of their ancestral households. Their valiant warriors totaled 17,200 equipped and ready for battle.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

They are saying, 'Announce to the surrounding nations, "The enemy is coming!" Proclaim this message to Jerusalem: "Those who besiege cities are coming from a distant land. They are ready to raise the battle cry against the towns in Judah."'

Verse ConceptsVoicesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldPeople From Far AwayTelling Of MovementsNations Attacking Israel

From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyFifty To Ninety ThousandWhole HeartednessMind Battlestraining

Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Verse ConceptsBare ArmsAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldProphesy!

Moreover, Uzziah had an army ready for battle, which entered combat by divisions according to the number of their muster, prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the official, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s officers.

Verse ConceptsSecretary

And Abijah joined in the battle with an army of four hundred thousand {battle-hardened warriors}, chosen men, and Jeroboam put the battle in order against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, an army of mighty warriors.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

Israel and the Philistines moved into position for battle, battle line facing battle line.

Verse ConceptsEarthly Armies

And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Verse ConceptsAttacking With ChariotsPreparing To TravelList Of Kings Of Israel

"Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.

Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleFlags

Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.

Verse ConceptsPreparing For ActionPreparationBeing Yourself

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The LORD's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Verse ConceptsPitsTheophanyBrimstonePreparation For BurialSulphurA Place Prepared

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”

“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

Verse ConceptsSheepBehold Me!People Sending People

And therefore thus he sayeth, "Make ready, make ready, and clean the street, take up what ye can out of the way that leadeth to my people."

Verse ConceptsStumbling BlocksMaking RoadsDo Not HinderHindrancesHighwaysMoving OnRemoving People From Your LifeOvercoming Obstaclesroadblockspeople

And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons. For they said, Surely they are stricken down before us as in the first battle.

Verse ConceptsThirtyKilling Within Israel

And the three oldest sons of Jesse went out, and followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born; and his second, Abinadab; and the third Shammah.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFirstborn Sons

And the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him. And the Philistine rulers said to him, Send the man back, and he shall return to his place where you have appointed him. And he shall not go down with us to battle, and shall not become an enemy to us in battle. For with what should he reconcile himself to his master? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and enter into the battle. But you put on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.

Verse ConceptsRobesdisguisesDistinctive Clothing

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and will go to the battle. But you put on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself. And they went to the battle.

Verse ConceptsRobesChanging Yourself

And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and the battle spread, and Israel was routed before the Philistines; and they slew in battle array in the field about four thousand men.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the battle, and I have fled to-day out of the battle. And he said, What has taken place, my son?

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleWhat Manner?

And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. And David put the battle in array against the Syrians, and they fought with him.

Verse ConceptsAssembling Israel

Now Joshua had instructed the army, "Do not give a battle cry or raise your voices; say nothing until the day I tell you, 'Give the battle cry.' Then give the battle cry!"

Verse ConceptsSilenceNo ShoutingCurbing SpeechSpiritual Warfare

For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfJusticeCommendationGod Is GraciousGod, Justice OfTendernessWaiting On GodLongsuffering Of GodDivine FavourGod WaitingGod Showed MercyGod's InterventionWaiting On The LordWaiting For God's Timingjournaling

I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodSelf Righteousness, And The GospelWaitingWaiting On GodImputed RighteousnessThose Who Wait For God

This is what the Lord says, "Promote justice! Do what is right! For I am ready to deliver you; I am ready to vindicate you openly.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialBeing FairOrthodoxy, In OtRighteousness, Of BelieversImputed RighteousnessFinal Salvationfairness

When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some men out of all the elite troops of Israel and lined up in battle formation to engage the Arameans.

and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. When the men of Judah raised the battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

Verse ConceptsShoutingVoicesShouting For Joy

So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle passed over by Beth Aven. And all the people with Saul were about ten thousand men. And the battle extended itself to every city on mount Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsGod Saves The Needy

He stood and shouted to the Israelite battle formations: “Why do you come out to line up in battle formation?” He asked them, “Am I not a Philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.

Verse ConceptsVoicesChoosing People

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him.

He arrived at the perimeter of the camp as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry.

Verse ConceptsRising Early, Examples OfChildren, Good KidsMorningOccupationsShoutingVoicesChildren, Good Examples OfRising EarlyBattle CriesThose Who Rose EarlyNo More Tending The FlockRoses

When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly.
He smells the battle from a distance;
he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

Verse ConceptsNosesShouting

When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some men out of all the elite troops of Israel and lined up in battle formation to engage the Arameans.

Verse ConceptsFront And BackSpiritual Warfarereinforcement

Asa went out to engage him in battle, and they drew up their battle lines at Mareshah in the Zephathah Valley.

Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofFortificationsPeople Torn To PiecesDestruction Of Strongholds

Then the LORD will go out to battle against those nations, waging war as in a day of battle.

Verse ConceptsGod Saves From Sin And DeathWarConflictBattle

And Jonah made him ready to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and gat him down to Joppa, and found there a ship ready to go to Tarshish, and paid his fare, and went aboard, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsEscapingBoatsdelay, humanSeafaringHarborsShipsThe NavyCommerceSea TravelFleeing From GodDirectionsailingjonah

Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; thou hast thrown them all down under me, that rose up against me. {TYNDALE: And thou compassedest me about with might to battle, and madest them that rose against me to stoop under me.}

Verse ConceptsBattlesequipping, physicalGod Strengthening PeopleClothed With Good ThingsMind BattlesCourageStrengthStrength In BattleWarLove And StrengthBattleStrength And Lovestrengharmy

It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings [were] drinking in the {tents}. He said to his servants, "Get ready [to attack]." So they got ready [to attack] the city.

Verse ConceptsReadinessDrunk Individuals

Then the LORD told Joshua, "Stretch out the battle lance that's in your hand toward Ai, because I will give it into your control." So Joshua stretched out the battle lance that was in his hand toward the city.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God's temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions."

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodSkillWisdom, Human NatureSubdivisionsVolunteering

"Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftRivers And StreamsDivine DirectionCrossing Into The Promised LandServant Leadershipbridges

One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill."

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UsePursuing PeopleFaint HeartednessBeaconsFive PeopleA Thousand PeopleFlags

Go ahead and charge into battle, you horsemen! Drive furiously, you charioteers! Let the soldiers march out into battle, those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields, and those from Lydia who are armed with the bow.

Verse ConceptsHorsesAttacking With Chariots

“I let Myself be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I let Myself be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To the nation [Israel] which did not call on My Name.

Verse ConceptsFindingelection, to salvationCalling upon GodKnowing God, Nature OfQuestionsRevelation, In OtNot Seeking GodBehold Me!Not PrayingSelf EsteemBeing YourselfChanging Yourselfseekingmyself

For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon a host of mighty nations from the land of the north. They will set up their battle lines against her. They will come from the north and capture her. Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier who does not return from the battle empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsAliancesSkillOut Of The North

Prepare the nations to do battle against her. Prepare the kings of the Medes. Prepare their governors and all their leaders. Prepare all the countries they rule to do battle against her.

And Elijah said unto her - Do not fear, go in - make ready according to thy word, - howbeit, make me thereof a little cake, first, and bring it out to me, and, for thyself and thy son, make ready, afterwards.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessSacrificial GivingBreadcooking

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let them make ready a gallows, of the height of fifty cubits, and, in the morning, speak thou unto the king, that they hang Mordecai thereon, then go with the king into the banquet joyfully. And the thing seemed good before Haman, and he made ready the gallows.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives

Now there came a traveller to the rich man, but he thought it a pity to take of his own flock, or his own herd, to make ready for the wayfarer who had come to him, - so he took the lamb of his poor neighbour, and made ready for the man who had come to him.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalLambsUnkindnessHerdsTravellersPeople UnwillingTaking AnimalsThose Who Provided A Meal

And the eyes of them who are ready to see, shall not be closed, - And, the ears of them who are ready to hear, shall hearken;

Verse ConceptsEyes OpenedBlindingOther Blinding

And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,

Verse ConceptsPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

Verse ConceptsFameInexperienceMiddle AgeYouthAmateursApprenticesLimitations Of Youthconstructionstructure

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

Verse ConceptsBronzeCoinageGoldSilverBrassAmassing SilverAmassing Bronze

And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast [were] in his hand.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleTrumpets For SignallingPriests In ActionTemple Utensils In UseMemorabilia

"You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me -- how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSandalsShedding

Sound your battle cry against the wild beast of the reeds, and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls! They humble themselves and offer gold and silver as tribute. God scatters the nations that like to do battle.

Verse ConceptsBullsCalvesStretching OutWarfare, Nature OfScattering The PeoplesWild Beasts Subdued

Call judgment down on Meroz,' says the Lord's angelic messenger; 'Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the Lord's battle, to help in the Lord's battle against the warriors.'

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversCursing The UngodlyNo Helpcurses

The Lord says, "These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfDebaucheryTongueLukewarmnessDissipationMighty in its influence

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.

Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnWallsAfflictions Of The WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionSuddenlyThings Falling

and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Verse ConceptsInsanityTongueSpeech ImpedimentsRash People

For I am ready to halt, And my pain is before me continually.

Verse ConceptsPeople Stumbling

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Verse ConceptsFormalityGod's DwellingThe Work Of FoolsCare Of FeetSacrificeFoolsGoing To ChurchListening To GodfootstepsbehaviorevangelisingGuarding Yourself

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness

Then you answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.

Verse ConceptsUnderestimationEasy For PeopleWe Have Sinned

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityWarriors

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelTrumpetWorship, Places OfOutcastsHow To Worship GodTrumpets At The End

and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsOne Hundred Thousand And More

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Manner And Methods OfStringsGod My Salvationinstruments

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with pegs, that it should not be moved.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofRidicule, Nature OfSkillToolsGoldsmithsBlacksmithsHammersNailsEncouraging One AnotherEncouraging Othersencouragingwoodworkingcraftsmanshipprocess

And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; you have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Verse ConceptsFoundations

The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

Verse ConceptsCopies Of Documents

The copy of the writing for a command to be given in every province was published unto all people, so that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

Verse ConceptsCopies Of DocumentsMan Avenging

And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, An Aramean ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Verse ConceptsNationalismNomadsWanderersPeople MultiplyingFew Peoplesyriawandering

this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah the God of Israel had given. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonGiving To OthersHand Of GodPriests, Function In Ot TimesScribesGod's HandScholarsGod's Hands On PeopleStudying The Law

He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Verse ConceptsAffluencePeace, Human Search ForPeople Stumblingfate

And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be you all ready:

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away