'Warrior' in the Bible

The Lord is a warrior;Yahweh is His name.

“Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior,the spoil of colored garments for Sisera,the spoil of an embroidered garment or two for my neck?”

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said: “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

Jephthah the Gileadite was a great warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, rallied 400,000 armed men, every one an experienced warrior.

One of the young men answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is also a valiant man, a warrior, eloquent, handsome, and the Lord is with him.”

But Saul replied, “You can’t go fight this Philistine. You’re just a youth, and he’s been a warrior since he was young.”

Saul told David, “Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife, if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “My hand doesn’t need to be against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

Naaman, commander of the army for the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was a brave warrior, but he had a skin disease.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first to become a great warrior on earth.

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a warrior among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty;Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad the Gederathite;

and Zadok, a young brave warrior, with 22 commanders from his own ancestral house.

from Benjamin, Eliada, a brave warrior, and 200,000 with him armed with bow and shield;

An Ephraimite warrior named Zichri killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam governor of the palace, and Elkanah who was second to the king.

and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every brave warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.

He breaks through my defenses again and again;He charges at me like a warrior.

A king is not saved by a large army;a warrior will not be delivered by great strength.

Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side.In your majesty and splendor—

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,like a warrior from the effects of wine.

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal onesand said: “I have granted help to a warrior;I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Like arrows in the hand of a warriorare the sons born in one’s youth.

A wise warrior is better than a strong one,and a man of knowledge than one of strength;

the hero and warrior,the judge and prophet,the fortune-teller and elder,

For he said:I have done this by my own strengthand wisdom, for I am clever.I abolished the borders of nationsand plundered their treasures;like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.

The Lord advances like a warrior;He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.He shouts, He roars aloud,He prevails over His enemies.

Why are You like a helpless man,like a warrior unable to save?Yet You are among us, Yahweh,and we are called by Your name.Don’t leave us!

But the Lord is with me like a violent warrior.Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.

The swift cannot flee,and the warrior cannot escape!In the north by the bank of the Euphrates River,they stumble and fall.

The nations have heard of your dishonor,and your outcry fills the earth,because warrior stumbles against warriorand together both of them have fallen.

For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylonan assembly of great nations from the north country.They will line up in battle formation against her;from there she will be captured.Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warriorwho does not return empty-handed.

Warrior leaders will speakfrom the middle of Sheolabout him and his allies:They have come down;the uncircumcised lieslain by the sword.

Then a warrior king will arise; he will rule a vast realm and do whatever he wants.

Beat your plows into swordsand your pruning knives into spears.Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”

Yahweh your God is among you,a warrior who saves.He will rejoice over you with gladness.He will bring you quietness with His love.He will delight in you with shouts of joy.”

Ephraim will be like a warrior,and their hearts will be glad as if with wine.Their children will see it and be glad;their hearts will rejoice in Yahweh.