'War' in the Bible
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand by the tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, and the holy instruments, even the alarm-trumpets in his hand.
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the army, with the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war;
And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
and divide the prey into halves, between them that conducted the war, who went out to the battle, and the whole assembly.
And thou shalt levy a tribute for Jehovah of the men of war who went out to the army, one soul of five hundred of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the small cattle.
And the prey, the rest of the spoil, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
And the half, the portion of them that had gone out to the war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses had divided, taking it from the men that served in the war,
and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.
And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye abide here?
And Moses said to them, If ye do this thing, if ye arm yourselves before Jehovah for war,
but thy servants will pass over, every one armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says.