Quotes about Defense
In your weakness, worry, doubt, and fear, he pleads to the Father in your defense.
- Paul David Tripp
There's an irony: the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us.
- Peter Enns
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- Genesis 32:8
Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.
- Genesis 49:19
When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
- Deuteronomy 23:9
When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
- Judges 9:52
So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
- 1 Samuel 26:15
You must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who approaches the ranks must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
- 2 Kings 11:8
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- 2 Kings 19:34
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
- 1 Chronicles 12:24
Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5
He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2