Quotes about Warfare

But when the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked them, and they fled before them. So the Israelites invaded their land and struck down the Moabites.

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.