Nave’s Topical Bible
Armies
221 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Who of the Israelites were subject to service in
- Who were exempt from service in
Numbers 1:47-50; Numbers 2:33; Deuteronomy 20:5-9; Judges 7:3
- Enumeration of Israel's military forces
Numbers 1:2-3; Numbers 26:2; 1 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 18:1-2; 2 Samuel 24:1-9; 1 Kings 20:15; 2 Chronicles 25:5
- Levies for
- Compulsory service in
See COWARDICE
- How officered
- Commander-in-chief
1 Samuel 14:50; 2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 8:16; 2 Samuel 17:25; 2 Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 20:23
- Commander-in-chief
- Generals of corps and divisions
- Captains of thousands
Numbers 31:14,48; 1 Samuel 17:18; 1 Chronicles 28:1; 2 Chronicles 25:5
- Captains of hundreds
Numbers 31:14,48; 2 Kings 11:15; 1 Chronicles 28:1; 2 Chronicles 25:5
- Captains of fifties
See CAVALRY
See CHARIOTS
- Rendezvous of (methods employed in effecting)
- Sounding a trumpet
- Cutting oxen in pieces, and sending the pieces throughout Israel
- Refusal to obey the summons, instance of
Tactics
- Camp and march
- March in ranks
- Margin note)
- Move, in attack, in three divisions
Judges 7:16; Judges 9:43; 1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Samuel 13:17-18; 2 Samuel 18:2; Job 1:17
- Flanks called wings
See STRATEGY
- Orders delivered with trumpets
2 Samuel 2:28; 2 Samuel 18:16; 2 Samuel 20:1,22; Nehemiah 4:18,20
- Stratagems
- Ambushes, at Ai
- Ambushes at Shechem
- Ambushes at Gibeah
- Ambushes at Zemaraim
- By Jehoshaphat
- Reconnoissances
- Of Jericho
- Of Ai
- Of Beth-el
- Of Laish
- Night attacks
- Decoy
- Unusual winter campaign
- Delay
- Celerity of action
- Abraham, in pursuit of Chedorlaomer
- Joshua, against the Amorites
- The confederated kings
- David's attack upon the Philistines
- Forced marches
- Sieges
- Of Jericho
- Of Samaria
- Of Jerusalem
- "Engines" used
- Margin;
- Fortifications
Judges 9:31; 2 Samuel 5:9; 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 11:11; 2 Chronicles 26:9; Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 4:2; Isaiah 22:10; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 29:3; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 33:4; Jeremiah 51:53; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 17:17; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 26:8; Ezekiel 33:27; Daniel 11:15,19; Nahum 2:1; Nahum 3:14
- Standards
- Uniforms of
- Standing armies
1 Samuel 13:2; 1 Chronicles 27; 2 Chronicles 1:14; 2 Chronicles 17:12-19; 2 Chronicles 26:11-15
- Religious ceremonies attending
- Seeking counsel from God before battle
Numbers 27:21; Judges 1:1; 1 Samuel 14:19,37-41; 1 Samuel 23:2-12; 1 Samuel 30:8; 2 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 5:19,23; 1 Kings 22:7-28; 2 Kings 3:11-19; 1 Chronicles 14:10,14; Jeremiah 37:7-10
- Seeking counsel from God before battle
- Sacrifices
- Purifications
- Holiness enjoined
- Officers consecrate themselves to God
- Army choir and songs
- Ark taken to battle
- Divine assistance to
- When Aaron and Hur held up Moses' hands
- In siege of Jericho
- Sun stands still
- Gideon's victory
- Samaria's deliverances
- Jehoshaphat's victories
- Angel of the Lord smites the Assyrians
- Determine royal succession
- Composed of insurgents
- Mercenaries
- Confederated
Joshua 10:1-5; Joshua 11:1-5; Judges 1:3; 2 Samuel 10:6,15-16,19; 1 Kings 15:20; 1 Kings 22:1-4; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 18:19-21; 1 Chronicles 19:6-7; 2 Chronicles 16:2-9; 2 Chronicles 18:1,3; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 22:5; 2 Chronicles 28:16,20; Psalms 83:1-12; Isaiah 7:1-9; Isaiah 8:9-12; Isaiah 54:15
- Exhorted before battle
- Battle shouts
- Triumphs of, celebrated
- With songs
- With music
- With dancing
- Rewards for meritorious conduct
- The general offers his daughter in marriage
- The king offers his daughter
- A promotion
- A share the spoils
- Children instructed in military arts
- Insubordination in, punished, Achan
- Check roll-call
- Panics
- Among the Midianites
- Among the Philistines
- Among the Syrians
- Soldiers destroy each other to escape captivity
- Champions fight instead of
- Confidence in, vain
- Escort duty performed by
- Roman army
- Captains (RSV margin, military tribunes) of
- Centurions
Matthew 8:5,8; Matthew 27:54; Luke 7:2; Luke 23:47; Acts 10:1,7,22; Acts 21:32; Acts 22:26; Acts 23:17,23; Acts 24:23; Acts 27:1,11,43; Acts 28:16
- Divided into "bands" (RSV margin, cohorts,)
For other than armies of the Israelites and Romans
See AMALEKITES
See ASSYRIA
See BABYLON
See EGYPTIANS
See MIDIANITES
See PERSIA
See SYRIA
For commissaries of
See COMMISSARY
For weapons used
See ARMOR
See AMBUSH
See CAVALRY
See FORT
See GARRISON
See HERALD
See HOSTAGE
See NAVY
See RECONNOISSANCE
See SIEGE
See SOLDIERS
See SPIES
See STANDARD
See STRATEGY
See TRUCE
See WAR
- FIGURATIVE
Deuteronomy 33:2; 2 Kings 6:17; Psalms 34:7; Psalms 68:17; Revelation 9:16
Bible verses about “Armies”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Numbers 1:2Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
- Numbers 1:3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
- Numbers 26:2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 25:5Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
- Numbers 1:47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
- Numbers 1:48For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,
- Numbers 1:49Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
- Numbers 1:50But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
- Numbers 2:33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 20:5And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:6And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
- Deuteronomy 20:7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
- Deuteronomy 20:9And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
- Judges 7:3Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
- 1 Samuel 11:8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
- 2 Samuel 18:1And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
- 2 Samuel 18:2And David sent forth a third part of the people 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. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
- 2 Samuel 24:1And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 24:2For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
- 2 Samuel 24:3And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
- 2 Samuel 24:4Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:5And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
- 2 Samuel 24:6Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,
- 2 Samuel 24:7And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer–sheba.
- 2 Samuel 24:8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
- 2 Samuel 24:9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
- 1 Kings 20:15Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
- Numbers 31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
- Judges 20:10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 14:52And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
- 1 Samuel 14:50And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
- 2 Samuel 2:8But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
- 2 Samuel 8:16And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
- 2 Samuel 17:25And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
- 2 Samuel 19:13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
- 2 Samuel 20:23Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
- Numbers 2:3And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
- Numbers 2:31All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
- 1 Chronicles 27:1Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.