Quotes about Strategy
So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
- 2 Samuel 17:6
Hushai replied, “This time the advice of Ahithophel is not sound.”
- 2 Samuel 17:7
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- 2 Samuel 17:11
If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found.”
- 2 Samuel 17:13
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
- 2 Samuel 17:19
So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.
- 2 Samuel 17:26
He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
- 2 Samuel 18:2
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
- 2 Samuel 18:4
Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.
- 2 Samuel 18:16
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
- 2 Samuel 21:5
Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:17
They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
- 1 Kings 20:16