Bible Verses About Military Conquest

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

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

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

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

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

And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.

We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

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 I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?