17 occurrences

'Fighting' in the Bible

He went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting with each other; and he said to the offender, “Why are you striking your companion?”

Verse ConceptsFighting One AnotherTwo Other Men

He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”

Verse ConceptsWheelsDrivingGod HinderingHard Tasks

Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you.’

Verse ConceptsBattlesDo Not Fear Men

And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the Lord your God is He who has been fighting for you.

For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.”

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorTaking Possessions

Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

Verse ConceptsForgive One AnotherFighting EnemiesForgiving Others Who Hurt You

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationenemies, of Israel and JudahLand, As A Divine GiftIsrael Fleeing

When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesPeoples Who Fled

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringAnger Of God, ConsequencesRoofRooftopBurning JerusalemIncense Offered AmissDifferent Gods

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

Verse ConceptsKingdomsActual Attacks On Jerusalem

when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsActual Attacks On Jerusalem

For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

Verse ConceptsdefeatBurning Jerusalem

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,They stay in the strongholds;Their strength is exhausted,They are becoming like women;Their dwelling places are set on fire,The bars of her gates are broken.

Verse ConceptsGatesPowerlessnessEffeminacyCessationStopping FightingWeak WomenBurning CitiesNo Strength LeftWomen's Strength

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