100 Bible Verses About Conquest

(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

In the wilderness, Beth–arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth–baal, and Beth–baal–meon,

And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.

Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En–hazor,

But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

And Beth–peor, and Ashdoth–pisgah, and Beth–jeshimoth,

And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

Which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;

And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

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,

And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;

And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.

There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes–dammim.

The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

And Joshua smote them from Kadesh–barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

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.

And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.

And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;