Bible on War

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.

And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king’s army was Joab.

Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,

So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.

And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.

But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.