Quotes about Conflict
But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.
— Joshua 15:63
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.
— Joshua 17:13
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
— Judges 1:1
The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
— Judges 1:21
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
— Judges 1:28
The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
— Judges 1:34
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
— Judges 4:21
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
Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
— Judges 5:18
Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
— Judges 5:19
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
— Judges 5:26
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
— Judges 6:2