'War' in the Bible
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
They captured 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 war captives from their possessions.
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.
And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.
And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.
And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.
And they took everything off him, and took his head and his war-dress, and sent word into the land of the Philistines round about to give the news to their gods and to the people.
And they put his war-dress in the house of their gods, and put up his head in the house of Dagon.
Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.
This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.
Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.
These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.
And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
And some of the men of Manasseh came over to David, when he went with the Philistines to the war against Saul, but he gave them no help: for the lords of the Philistines, after discussion, sent him away, saying, He will go back to his master Saul, at the price of our lives.
And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.
And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.
And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
so David inquired of God, “Should I go to war against the Philistines? Will You hand them over to me?”The Lord replied, “Go, and I will hand them over to you.”
And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.
He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver as payment for war-carriages and horsemen from Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.
So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.
And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven thousand Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and put to death Shophach, the captain of the army.
In the spring when kings march out to war, Joab led the army and destroyed the Ammonites’ land. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
David confiscated the crown of their king from his head, and found that its weight was a talent in gold. A precious stone had been set in it, and it was placed on David's head. He also confiscated a great amount of war booty that had been plundered from the city,
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
to report the total population count to David. Throughout all of Israel there were 1,100,000 men trained for war. In Judah there were 470,000 men trained for war.
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.
but it happened [that] the word of Yahweh [came] over me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me.
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.
They dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the Temple of the LORD from spoils of war.
And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.
Topical Concordance
Search Results by Versions
Search Results by Book
- Genesis (5)
- Exodus (18)
- Leviticus (1)
- Numbers (46)
- Deuteronomy (18)
- Joshua (44)
- Judges (56)
- 1 Samuel (33)
- 2 Samuel (34)
- 1 Kings (39)
- 2 Kings (27)
- 1 Chronicles (54)
- 2 Chronicles (74)
- Nehemiah (3)
- Esther (1)
- Job (11)
- Psalm (23)
- Proverbs (7)
- Ecclesiastes (5)
- Song of Songs (2)
- Isaiah (49)
- Jeremiah (79)
- Lamentations (2)
- Ezekiel (30)
- Daniel (12)
- Hosea (6)
- Joel (4)
- Amos (5)
- Obadiah (2)
- Micah (5)
- Nahum (5)
- Habakkuk (2)
- Zephaniah (2)
- Haggai (1)
- Zechariah (12)
Related Words
- War-booty (9 instances in 1 translation)
- War-club (1 instance in 2 translations)
- War-horses (7 instances in 9 translations)
- War-loving (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Ward (25 instances in 9 translations)
- Warden (14 instances in 5 translations)
- Warden's (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Wardens (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Warders (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Wardrobe (4 instances in 11 translations)
- Wards (3 instances in 4 translations)
- Ware (8 instances in 4 translations)
- Warehouse (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Warehouses (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Wares (22 instances in 10 translations)
- Warfare (34 instances in 12 translations)
- Warhorse (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Warlike (4 instances in 2 translations)
- Warm (27 instances in 13 translations)
- Warm-hearted (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Warmed (7 instances in 11 translations)
- Warmeth (3 instances in 3 translations)
- Warming (7 instances in 13 translations)
- Warmly (5 instances in 3 translations)
- Warms (3 instances in 6 translations)
- Warmth (5 instances in 4 translations)
- Warn (60 instances in 12 translations)
- Warned (104 instances in 12 translations)
- Warneth (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Warning (66 instances in 12 translations)
- Warnings (15 instances in 7 translations)
- Warns (4 instances in 7 translations)
- Warp (9 instances in 9 translations)
- Warp-threads (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Warped (5 instances in 4 translations)
- Warrant (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Warred (11 instances in 8 translations)
- Warreth (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Warring (14 instances in 8 translations)
- Warrior (66 instances in 10 translations)
- Warrior's (9 instances in 5 translations)
- Warriors (184 instances in 10 translations)
- Wars (35 instances in 13 translations)
- Wart (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Wartime (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Wary (3 instances in 3 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Warfare (34 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Chrematizo
'elohiym
Beged
Muwl
Mimkar
Tsaba'