24 occurrences in 13 translations

'Army' in the Bible

When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of mighty waters, like the voice of the Almighty, and a sound of commotion like the noise of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfNoiseThe AlmightyAngel's WingsThings Like WaterSoundGod's VoiceLike WaterPutting Things Down

I'll scatter every attendant who surrounds him, along with his entire army, to every wind. When I unsheathe my sword to pursue them,

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

"Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "Will it prosper? Won't he pull up its roots, and strip it bare so all its fresh foliage dries up? It won't be by great strength or by a great army that it will be uprooted.

Verse ConceptsRootsUnfruitfulnessMany EnemiesPlants Growing UpEasy For People

However, this king revolted against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt so they might give him horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still escape?

Verse ConceptsenvoyLargenessRebellion Against God, Shown InNo EscapeAcquiring HorsesLarge Armies

Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

""They'll invade you with weapons, chariots, wagons, and a vast army. They'll set themselves in place to attack you from every direction with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I'll turn over judgment to them, and they'll punish you according to their own standards.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCartsShieldsWheelsWagonsAttacking With ChariotsHelmetsPeople Opposed

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Bring an army against them and deliver them over to terror and plunder.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingPeople OpposedPeople Appalled

Then the army will stone them with stones and cut them to pieces with their swords. They'll kill their sons and daughters and incinerate their houses.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesFear Of StoningKilling Sons And Daughters

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm about to bring from the north King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, that king of kings. He'll come with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a vast army.

Verse ConceptsChariotsNorthAttacking With ChariotsOut Of The North

His horses will be so numerous that their dust will cover you. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCartsWheelsThings ShakingNumerous As DustAutomobiles

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

Verse ConceptsHead coveringArmoryHelmetsEarthly ArmiesSource Of Honour

The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsWarriorsWalled TownsPeople Made Perfect

Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

Verse ConceptsBaldnessBare ArmsThose Who Toiled

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

Verse ConceptsDelicaciesTaking Possessions

He and his ruthless army with him will be brought to destroy the land. They'll draw their swords and attack Egypt, filling the land with the dead!

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilling Many PeoplePeople Without Mercy

They also went down with it to Sheol to {those who died by the sword}, and its army [who] [had] lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of CreaturesMetaphorical Trees

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "The army of the king of Babylon will attack you.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsHuman Comfort

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Verse ConceptsPeople Getting UpThe Dead Are Raisedarmy

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Verse ConceptsHorsesCoercionCausing People To TurnOther References To MouthsEzekiel Invasion

And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Verse ConceptsGog and MagogOut Of The North

I'll judge them with disease and bloodshed. I'll shower him, his soldiers, and the vast army that accompanies him with a torrential flood, hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Verse ConceptsRainWeather, As God's JudgmentBrimstoneGod KillingFire From HeavenFire Of JudgementSulphurGod Will Kill The PeoplesEzekiel Invasion

And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean.

Bible Theasaurus

Company (323 instances)
Detachment (8 instances)
Garrison (19 instances)
Legion (5 instances)
Multitude (361 instances)

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