53 Bible Verses about Battle

There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.

He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

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

And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.

O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I have given into your hands Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and all his land: go forward to make it yours, and make war on him,

So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.

Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

And he said, Give ear, O Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat: the Lord says to you, Have no fear and do not be troubled on account of this great army; for the fight is not yours but God's.

He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.

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.

For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.

And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,

And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.

My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.

And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;

Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David became stronger and stronger, but those on Saul's side became more and more feeble.

You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;