Armies

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Jeremiah 50:3 OT

  For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.

• Habakkuk 1:6 OT

  For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

• Habakkuk 1:8 OT

  Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

• Isaiah 5:27 OT

  No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

• Joel 2:7 OT

  They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.

• Joel 2:8 OT

  Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don’t break ranks.

• Isaiah 17:12 OT

  Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

• Isaiah 17:13 OT

  The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

• Joel 2:5 OT

  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

• 1 Samuel 17:2 OT

  Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 17:3 OT

  The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

• 1 Chronicles 19:17 OT

  David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to 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.

• Deuteronomy 20:12 OT

  If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.

• Isaiah 29:3 OT

  I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

• Joshua 7:3 OT

  They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

• Joshua 7:4 OT

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

• Judges 9:45 OT

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

• 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.”

• 2 Chronicles 13:15 OT

  Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

• Jeremiah 51:12 OT

  Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

• 1 Samuel 17:20 OT

  David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

• Jeremiah 51:14 OT

  Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’

• Ezekiel 29:18 OT

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served…

• Exodus 15:9 OT

  The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’