'War' in the Bible

How the valiant have fallen! How the weapons of war are destroyed!"

Abner told him, "Go off to your right or left after one of the young men and grab some war spoils." But Asahel would not stop following him,

After this, a state of protracted war existed between Saul's dynasty and David's dynasty, and the dynasty of David continued to grow and become strong while the dynasty of Saul continued to grow weaker.

While war continued between the dynasties of Saul and David, Abner was growing in influence within the dynasty of Saul.

Right about then, David's servants returned from a raid, bringing plenty of war booty with them, but Abner wasn't in Hebron with David, since David had sent him away and Abner had left in peace.

Tou sent his son Joram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory over Hadadezer, because he had been at war with Tou. Joram brought articles of silver, gold, and bronze with him,

One spring day, during the time of year when kings go off to war, David sent out Joab, along with his personal staff and all of Israel's army. They utterly destroyed the Ammonites and then attacked Rabbah while David remained in Jerusalem.

When Uriah arrived, David inquired about how Joab was doing, how the army was doing, and how the war was progressing.

He confiscated the crown of their king from his head it weighed one talent in gold and was set with precious stones and it was placed on David's head. He confiscated a great amount of war booty that had been plundered from the city,

Afterwards, war broke out between the Philistines and Israel, so David went down to fight the Philistines. David became weary,

You delivered me from civil war among my own people. You preserved me as head of the nations. People whom I had never known served me!

Joab reported the total number of men to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 men trained for war. In Judah there were 500,000.