מִלְחָמָה

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”

For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.