'Force' in the Bible

Then Jacob replied to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against him with a heavy force and with a strong hand.

If the man said to him, “They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms.

Then I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will use force against you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

“By a great force my garment is distorted;It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.