14 occurrences

'Fighting' in the Bible

The LORD then told Joshua, "Don't be afraid or lose heart! Take all the fighting men with you, and go up right now to Ai. Take note that I have handed over the king of Ai into your control, along with his people, his city, and his land.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftWarfare, Nature OfResisting DiscouragementGradual Conquest Of The LandThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So Joshua and all of the fighting men prepared to go out against Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 valiant warriors and sent them out by night,

The entire fighting force with him attacked, approaching the city, and camped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.

Because Joshua and the entire fighting force of Israel pretended to lose the battle by running away in front of them toward the wilderness,

Verse ConceptsPretendingIsrael Fleeing

When Joshua and the entire fighting force of Israel observed that the men who had been in ambush had seized the city and that the smoke from the city was rising, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

When Israel had completed executing all of the residents of Ai in the open wilderness where they had chased them, and after all of them to the very last of them had been killed by swords, the entire fighting force of Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with swords.

Verse ConceptsCarnageConquest

So Joshua went up from Gilgal, along with his entire fighting force of mighty warriors with him.

There has never been a day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD was fighting on behalf of Israel.

Verse ConceptsUnique EventsGod Paid Attention To Me

After this, Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal with the entire fighting force of Israel.

Then Joshua returned, accompanied by the entire fighting force of Israel, to Debir, where they attacked it,

Then Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal, along with the entire fighting force of Israel.

So Joshua and his entire fighting force approached them suddenly by the waters of Merom and attacked them.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

You have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all of these nations on your behalf, because it has been the LORD your God who has been fighting on your behalf.

A single man makes a thousand flee, because the LORD your God is the one who is fighting for you, just as he promised you.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance, basis ofPursuing PeopleA Thousand People

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