Bible Verses About Battles
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And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lordโs, and he will give you into our hands.
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Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but Godโs.
And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every manโs sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you.
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
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