Quotes about Diplomacy
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
— Deuteronomy 20:10
But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
— Deuteronomy 20:12
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
— Deuteronomy 20:15
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
— Joshua 9:4
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
— Joshua 9:7
Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
— Joshua 10:3
Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
— Joshua 11:1
Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
— Joshua 22:21
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
— Judges 11:12
to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
— Judges 11:15
But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
— Judges 11:28
Then Abner sent messengers in his place to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”
— 2 Samuel 3:12