19 occurrences

'Battle' in the Bible

When the army of the tribe of Judah went into battle, the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their control, and they defeated 10,000 men at Bezek.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

Verse ConceptsMilitarySurvivors Of The NationsBattleTestsisraeltrainingexams

The Spirit of the LORD was on him, and he governed Israel. When Othniel went out to battle, the LORD handed king Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim into his control, and Othniel's domination of Cushan-rishathaim was strong.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualPower, HumanThe Spirit Of The LordJudging IsraelThose God Gave Into Their Handsempowerment

while Barak chased the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-haggoyim. Sisera's entire army died in the battle not even one soldier remained.

Verse ConceptsConquest

Then the survivors approached the nobles; the people of the LORD approached me in battle array.

Verse ConceptsNoblesSurvivors Of The Nationsdominion

So the Spirit of the LORD took control of Gideon, who blew a trumpet, mustering the descendants of Abiezer to follow him into battle.

Verse ConceptsThe Spirit Of The LordTrumpets For Signallinggideon

Then Joash's son Gideon returned from the battle along the Heres Ascent.

So 600 descendants of Dan from Zorah and Eshtaol set out for battle, armed with military weapons.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

But the descendants of Benjamin wouldn't obey the request of their own relatives, the Israelis, so the descendants of Benjamin assembled from the cities of Gibeah to fight the Israelis in battle.

Verse ConceptsCivil War

The day of the battle, the army from the descendants of Benjamin numbered 26,000 expert swordsmen from their cities, not including the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered 700 special forces soldiers.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

and the army of Israel went out to fight the tribe of Benjamin, assembling in battle array against them at Gibeah.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationFighting One Another

The descendants of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and 22,000 soldiers of Israel fell in battle that day.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

But the army the men of Israel encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again the next day in the same place where they had gathered the day before.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithEncouraging DoubtersDoing Repeatedlyreinforcement

They attacked the army and were drawn away from the city as they began to inflict casualties on the soldiers along the roads to Bethel and Gibeah, just as they had done the other times. About 30 soldiers from Israel fell in battle there and in the fields.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

As 10,000 of Israel's best soldiers came to fight Gibeah, the battle became fierce, but the army of Benjamin didn't know that disaster was close at hand.

Verse ConceptsTens Of Thousands

The army of Israel turned around in the battle, and the army of Benjamin began to attack and kill about 30 soldiers, thinking, "Now we're really defeating them, just like before."

Verse ConceptsThirtyKilling Within Israel

So they turned tail and ran away from the army of Israel toward the wilderness, but they were overtaken in battle when soldiers came out from the cities to destroy them.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

That's how 18,000 men from the tribe of Benjamin fell in battle, all of whom were valiant soldiers.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

If their fathers or brothers come complaining to us, we'll tell them "Be generous! Give them to us voluntarily, because we didn't take anyone to be a wife for the men of the tribe of Benjamin as a result of the battle. And you haven't incurred guilt by giving your daughters to them.'"

Verse ConceptsComplaints

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