15 occurrences

'War' in the Bible

And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives:

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCartsShieldsWheelsWagonsAttacking With ChariotsHelmetsPeople Opposed

For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.

Verse ConceptsChariotsNorthAttacking With ChariotsOut Of The North

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCartsWheelsThings ShakingNumerous As DustAutomobiles

Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

Verse ConceptsHead coveringArmoryHelmetsEarthly ArmiesSource Of Honour

Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

Verse ConceptsMarinersSoldiersSealing ThingsThings Fallingsailing

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:

Verse ConceptsHorsesCoercionCausing People To TurnOther References To MouthsEzekiel Invasion

And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:

Verse ConceptsShieldsJavelinsSeven Years

And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForestsDisarmamentPlunderingFirewoodWeapons For Fuel

The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleCreatures Drinking Blood

At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

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