Quotes about War
“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
— Joshua 10:4
So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
— Joshua 10:5
At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.
— Joshua 10:33
So by the waters of Merom, Joshua and his whole army came upon them suddenly and attacked them,
— Joshua 11:7
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
— Joshua 11:23
still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
— Joshua 14:11
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.
— Joshua 14:15
Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.
— Joshua 17:1
And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
— Joshua 22:12
The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
— Joshua 22:33
The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
— Judges 3:10
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
— Judges 5:8