Armies of Israel, The

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• 2 Chronicles 13:14 OT

  When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

• 2 Chronicles 20:21 OT

  When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:22 OT

  When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.

• 2 Samuel 10:9 OT

  Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

• Joshua 15:16 OT

  Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”

• 1 Samuel 17:25 OT

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:17 OT

  Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

• 1 Chronicles 11:6 OT

  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

• Exodus 17:9 OT

  Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”

• Numbers 31:5 OT

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

• Joshua 7:4 OT

  So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

• Joshua 8:3 OT

  So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

• Judges 7:5 OT

  So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 7:6 OT

  The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.

• 2 Samuel 17:1 OT

  Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

• Joshua 8:1 OT

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

• Joshua 8:2 OT

  You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

• Judges 1:2 OT

  Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”

• 2 Samuel 5:25 OT

  David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.

• 1 Chronicles 14:16 OT

  David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

• Leviticus 26:3 OT

  “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

• Leviticus 26:7 OT

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

• Leviticus 26:8 OT

  Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

• Deuteronomy 7:24 OT

  He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.