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• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 14:15

  He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

• Exodus 13:18

  but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 1:2

  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

• Numbers 1:3

  from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

• Numbers 1:47

  But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

• Numbers 1:48

  For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 1:49

  “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

• Numbers 1:50

  but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

• Numbers 2:2

  “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.”

• Numbers 2:3

  Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

• Numbers 2:10

  “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

• Numbers 2:17

  “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

• Numbers 2:18

  “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 2:25

  “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

• Numbers 2:31

  “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”

• Numbers 2:33

  But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Numbers 2:34

  Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

• Numbers 10:9

  When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

• Numbers 10:14

  First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

• Numbers 10:18

  The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

• Numbers 10:22

  The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

• Numbers 10:25

  The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.

• Numbers 26:2

  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

• Numbers 27:21

  He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

• Numbers 31:4

  Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.”

• Numbers 31:14

  Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

• Numbers 31:48

  The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

• Deuteronomy 20:6

  What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 20:7

  What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

• Deuteronomy 20:8

  The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

• Deuteronomy 20:9

  It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

• Joshua 2:1

  Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

• Joshua 2:2

  The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

• Joshua 2:3

  Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

• Joshua 2:4

  The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

• Joshua 2:5

  About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

• Joshua 2:7

  The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

• Joshua 2:8

  Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

• Joshua 2:9

  She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

• Joshua 2:10

  For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

• Joshua 2:11

  As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

• Joshua 2:12

  Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

• Joshua 2:13

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

• Joshua 2:14

  The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

• Joshua 2:16

  She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

• Joshua 2:17

  The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.

• Joshua 2:18

  Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

• Joshua 2:19

  It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

• Joshua 2:20

  But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”

• Joshua 2:21

  She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.

• Joshua 2:22

  They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.

• Joshua 2:23

  Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.

• Joshua 2:24

  They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

• Joshua 7:2

  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

• Joshua 7:3

  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 8:2

  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.”

• Joshua 8:3

  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.

• Joshua 8:4

  He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

• Joshua 8:5

  I and all the people who are with me will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

• Joshua 8:6

  They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

• Joshua 8:7

  and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

• Joshua 8:8

  It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

• Joshua 8:9

  Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

• Joshua 8:10

  Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

• Joshua 8:11

  All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

• Joshua 8:12

  He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

• Joshua 8:13

  So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

• Joshua 8:14

  When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

• Joshua 8:15

  Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

• Joshua 8:16

  All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

• Joshua 8:17

  There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

• Joshua 8:18

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

• Joshua 8:19

  The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

• Joshua 8:20

  When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

• Joshua 8:21

  When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

• Joshua 8:22

  The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”

• Joshua 10:9

  Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

• Joshua 11:7

  So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

• Judges 1:1

  After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

• Judges 1:23

  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

• Judges 1:24

  The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

• Judges 3:27

  When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

• Judges 6:34

  But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.

• Judges 7:3

  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

• Judges 7:16

  He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

• Judges 7:17

  He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.

• Judges 7:18

  When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”

• Judges 7:19

  So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

• Judges 7:20

  The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”

• Judges 7:21

  They each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

• Judges 7:22

  They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

• Judges 9:25

  The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.

• Judges 9:31

  He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.

• Judges 9:34

  Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

• Judges 9:43

  He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them, and struck them.

• Judges 18:2

  The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

• Judges 18:3

  When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”

• Judges 18:4

  He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.”

• Judges 18:5

  They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”

• Judges 18:6

  The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”

• Judges 18:7

  Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.

• Judges 18:8

  They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

• Judges 18:9

  They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

• Judges 18:10

  When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

• Judges 20:10

  and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.”

• Judges 20:29

  Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

• Judges 20:30

  The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

• Judges 20:31

  The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

• Judges 20:32

  The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

• Judges 20:33

  All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

• Judges 20:34

  Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

• Judges 20:35

  Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.

• Judges 20:36

  So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:37

  The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

• Judges 20:38

  Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

• Judges 20:39

  The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”

• Judges 20:40

  But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

• Judges 20:41

  The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

• Judges 20:42

  Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.

• Judges 21:5

  The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

• Judges 21:6

  The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.

• Judges 21:7

  How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

• Judges 21:8

  They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.

• Judges 21:9

  For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

• Judges 21:10

  The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

• Judges 21:11

  This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

• 1 Samuel 11:7

  He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

• 1 Samuel 11:8

  He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

• 1 Samuel 11:11

  On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

• 1 Samuel 13:2

  Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.

• 1 Samuel 13:3

  Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

• 1 Samuel 13:4

  All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 13:17

  The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;

• 1 Samuel 13:18

  another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

• 1 Samuel 14:19

  While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”

• 1 Samuel 14:37

  Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.

• 1 Samuel 14:38

  Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.

• 1 Samuel 14:39

  For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

• 1 Samuel 14:40

  Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

• 1 Samuel 14:41

  Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.

• 1 Samuel 14:50

  The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

• 1 Samuel 14:52

  There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

• 1 Samuel 17:18

  and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

• 1 Samuel 23:2

  Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”

• 1 Samuel 23:3

  David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

• 1 Samuel 23:4

  Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

• 1 Samuel 23:5

  David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

• 1 Samuel 23:6

  When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

• 1 Samuel 23:7

  Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

• 1 Samuel 23:8

  Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

• 1 Samuel 23:9

  David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

• 1 Samuel 23:10

  Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

• 1 Samuel 23:11

  Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Yahweh said, “He will come down.”

• 1 Samuel 23:12

  Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

• 1 Samuel 30:8

  David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

• 2 Samuel 2:1

  After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”

• 2 Samuel 2:8

  Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

• 2 Samuel 2:28

  So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.

• 2 Samuel 5:9

  David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

• 2 Samuel 5:19

  David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

• 2 Samuel 5:23

  When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.

• 2 Samuel 5:24

  When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 5:25

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

• 2 Samuel 8:16

  Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 17:7

  Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

• 2 Samuel 17:12

  So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

• 2 Samuel 17:13

  Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

• 2 Samuel 17:14

  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:25

  Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

• 2 Samuel 18:1

  David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

• 2 Samuel 18:2

  David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

• 2 Samuel 18:16

  Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

• 2 Samuel 20:1

  There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

• 2 Samuel 20:22

  Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,

• 2 Samuel 24:1

  Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

• 2 Samuel 24:2

  The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:3

  Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

• 2 Samuel 24:4

  Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:5

  They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;

• 2 Samuel 24:6

  then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

• 2 Samuel 24:7

  and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 24:8

  So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

• 1 Kings 20:15

  Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

• 1 Kings 22:7

  But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”

• 1 Kings 22:8

  The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

• 1 Kings 22:9

  Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”

• 1 Kings 22:10

  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

• 1 Kings 22:11

  Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

• 1 Kings 22:12

  All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

• 1 Kings 22:13

  The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

• 1 Kings 22:14

  Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

• 1 Kings 22:15

  When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

• 1 Kings 22:16

  The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

• 1 Kings 22:17

  He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”

• 1 Kings 22:18

  The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

• 2 Kings 1:9

  Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”

• 2 Kings 6:24

  After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:25

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

• 2 Kings 6:26

  As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

• 2 Kings 6:28

  The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Kings 6:30

  When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

• 2 Kings 6:31

  Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

• 2 Kings 6:32

  But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

• 2 Kings 6:33

  While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 25:1

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

• 2 Kings 25:2

  So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 1 Chronicles 12:33

  Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could command and were not of double heart.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

• 1 Chronicles 27:1

  Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year — of every division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:2

  Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:3

  He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

• 1 Chronicles 27:4

  Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:5

  The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:6

  This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.

• 1 Chronicles 27:7

  The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:8

  The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:9

  The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:10

  The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:11

  The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:12

  The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:13

  The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:14

  The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:15

  The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 27:16

  Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

• 1 Chronicles 27:17

  of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

• 1 Chronicles 27:18

  of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

• 1 Chronicles 27:19

  of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;

• 1 Chronicles 27:20

  of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

• 1 Chronicles 27:21

  of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;

• 1 Chronicles 27:22

  of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 28:1

  David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 1:14

  Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 11:11

  He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.

• 2 Chronicles 13:13

  But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

• 2 Chronicles 17:12

  Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 17:13

  He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 17:14

  This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;

• 2 Chronicles 17:15

  and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;

• 2 Chronicles 17:16

  and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 17:17

  From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

• 2 Chronicles 17:18

  and next to him Jehozabad, and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready and prepared for war.

• 2 Chronicles 17:19

  These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 20:22

  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 Chronicles 25:5

  Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9

  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

• 2 Chronicles 26:11

  Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

• 2 Chronicles 26:12

  The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.

• 2 Chronicles 26:13

  Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

• 2 Chronicles 26:14

  Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

• 2 Chronicles 26:15

  In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

• Nehemiah 3:8

  Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.

• Nehemiah 4:2

  He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

• Nehemiah 4:18

  Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

• Nehemiah 4:20

  Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

• Job 1:17

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Isaiah 3:3

  the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

• Isaiah 5:26

  He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

• Isaiah 5:27

  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:

• Isaiah 8:8

  It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

• Isaiah 22:10

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Isaiah 25:12

  He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

• Isaiah 29:3

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

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

• Jeremiah 6:6

  For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression within her.

• Jeremiah 32:24

  “Behold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.

• Jeremiah 33:4

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

• Jeremiah 39:1

  When Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

• Jeremiah 51:53

  Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 4:2

  Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

• Ezekiel 17:17

  Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

• Ezekiel 21:22

  In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

• Ezekiel 23:6

  who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

• Ezekiel 23:12

  She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

• Ezekiel 26:8

  He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

• Ezekiel 26:9

  He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

• Ezekiel 33:27

  You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

• Daniel 11:15

  So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.

• Daniel 11:19

  Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

• Joel 2:7

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

• Nahum 2:1

  He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

• Nahum 2:3

  The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.