Nave’s Topical Bible
War
286 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Divine approval of
- Civil
Judges 12:1-6; Judges 20; 2 Samuel 2:12-31; 2 Samuel 3:1; 2 Samuel 20; 1 Kings 14:30; 1 Kings 16:21; Isaiah 19:2
- Forbidden
- Averted
- Enemy harangued by the general of the opposing side
- Of extermination
Numbers 31:7-17; Deuteronomy 2:33-34; Deuteronomy 3:6; Deuteronomy 20:13-18; Joshua 6:21,24; Joshua 8:24-25; Joshua 10:2-40; Joshua 11:11-23; 1 Samuel 15:3-9; 1 Samuel 27:8-11
- God in
Exodus 14:13-14; Deuteronomy 1:30; Deuteronomy 3:21-22; Deuteronomy 7:17-24; Deuteronomy 20:1,4; Deuteronomy 31:6-8,23; Deuteronomy 32:29-30; Joshua 1:1,5-7,9; Judges 1:2; Judges 6:16; Judges 7:9; Judges 11:29; 1 Samuel 17:45-47; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 30:7-8; 2 Samuel 5:22-24; 2 Samuel 22:18; 1 Kings 20:28; Psalms 18:34; Psalms 76:3; Jeremiah 46:15; Amos 5:8-9; Zechariah 10:5
- God uses, as a judgment
Exodus 23:24; Leviticus 26:17,31-39; Deuteronomy 28:25-68; Deuteronomy 32:30; Judges 2:14; 2 Kings 15:37; 1 Chronicles 5:22,26; 1 Chronicles 21:12; 2 Chronicles 15:6; 2 Chronicles 12:1-12; 2 Chronicles 24:23-24; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36; Job 19:29; Psalms 44:9-16; Psalms 60:1-3; Psalms 105:25; Isaiah 5:1-8,25-30; Isaiah 9:8-12; Isaiah 13:3-4,9; Isaiah 19:2; Isaiah 34:2-6; Isaiah 43:28; Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 12:7,12; Jeremiah 46:15-17,21; Jeremiah 47:6-7; Jeremiah 48:10; Jeremiah 49:5; Jeremiah 50:25; Ezekiel 23:22-25; Amos 3:6; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 1:7-18; Zechariah 8:10; Zechariah 14:2
- Repugnant to God
1 Chronicles 22:8-9; Psalms 68:30; Psalms 120:6-7; Revelation 13:10
- God sends panic in
- Threatens defeat in
Deuteronomy 32:25; 1 Samuel 2:10; 2 Chronicles 18:12-16; Isaiah 30:15-17; Ezekiel 15:6-8; Ezekiel 21:9-17
- Inflicts defeat in
Joshua 7:12-13; 2 Chronicles 12:5-8; 2 Chronicles 24:23-24; Psalms 76:3; Psalms 78:66; Psalms 79:10; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 46:15-16
- Counsels of
Joshua 22:10-34; Judges 7:10-11; 2 Samuel 16:20; 2 Samuel 17:1-15; Psalms 48:4-7; Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 20:18
- Wisdom required in
Proverbs 21:22; Proverbs 24:6; Ecclesiastes 9:14-18; Luke 14:31-32
- Tumult of
- Killed in, neglected
- Evils of
2 Samuel 2:26; Psalms 46:8; Psalms 79:1-3; Psalms 137:9; Isaiah 3:5,25-26; Isaiah 5:29-30; Isaiah 6:11-12; Isaiah 9:5,19-21; Isaiah 13:15-16; Isaiah 15; Isaiah 16:9-10; Isaiah 18:6; Isaiah 19:2-16; Isaiah 32:13-14; Isaiah 33:8-9; Isaiah 34:7-15; Jeremiah 4:19-31; Jeremiah 5:16-17; Jeremiah 6:24-26; Jeremiah 7:33-34; Jeremiah 8:16-17; Jeremiah 9:10-21; Jeremiah 10:20; Jeremiah 13:14; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 15:8-9; Jeremiah 19:7-9; Jeremiah 25:33; Jeremiah 46:3-12; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 48:28,33; Jeremiah 51:30-58; Lamentations 1; Lamentations 2; Lamentations 3; Lamentations 4; Lamentations 5; Ezekiel 33:27; Ezekiel 39:17-19; Hosea 10:14; Hosea 13:16; Joel 2:2-10; Amos 1:13; Amos 6:9-10; Amos 8:3; Nahum 2:10; Nahum 3:3,10; Zechariah 14:2; Luke 21:20-26; Revelation 19:17-18
- To cease
- Wars and rumors of
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- FIGURATIVE
- Warfare of saints
- Is not after the flesh
- Is a good warfare
- Called the good fight of faith
- Is against
- The Devil
Genesis 3:15; 2 Corinthians 2:11; Ephesians 1:12; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:17
- The flesh
Romans 7:23; 1 Corinthians 9:25-27; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11
- Enemies
- The world
- Death
- The Devil
- Often arises from the opposition of friends or relatives
- To be carried on
- Under Christ, as our Captain
- Under the Lord's banner
- With faith
- With a good conscience
- With steadfastness in the faith
- With earnestness
- With watchfulness
- With sobriety
- With endurance of hardness
- With self-denial
- With confidence in God
- With prayer
- Without earthly entanglements
- Mere professors do not maintain
- Saints are all engaged in
- Must stand firm in
- Exhorted to diligence in
- Encouraged in
- Helped by God in
- Protected by God in
- Comforted by God in
- Strengthened by God in
- Strengthened by Christ in
- Delivered by Christ in
- Thank God for victory in
- Armor for
- The belt of truth
- The breastplate of righteousness
- The preparation of the gospel
- The shield of faith
- The helmet of salvation
- The sword of the Spirit
- Called "the armor of God,"
- Called "the armor of righteousness,"
- Called "the armor of light,"
- Not carnal
- Mighty through God
- The whole, is required
- Must be put on
- To be on the right hand and left, an idiom meaning: "to attack and to defend."
- Victory in, is from God
- Through Christ
Romans 7:25; 1 Corinthians 15:57; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Revelation 12:11
- By faith
- Over the Devil
- Over the flesh
- Over the world
- Over all that exalts itself
- Over death and the grave
Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 26:19; Hosea 13:14; 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
- Triumphant
- Those who overcome in, will eat of the hidden manna
- Eat from the Tree of Life
- Be clothed in white clothing
- Be pillars in the temple of God
- Sit with Christ on his throne
- Have a white stone, and in it a new name written
- Have power over the nations
- Have the name of God written upon them by Christ
- Have God as their God
- Have the Morning Star
- Inherit all things
- Be confessed by Christ in the presence of God the Father
- Be sons of God
- Not be hurt by the Second Death
- Not have their names blotted out of the Book of Life
- Symbolized by a red horse
- Warfare of saints
- IN HEAVEN
- SYMBOLICAL
Bible verses about “War”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 2 Samuel 22:35He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
- Judges 12:1And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
- Judges 12:2And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
- Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
- Judges 12:4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
- Judges 12:5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
- Judges 12:6Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
- 2 Samuel 2:12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 2 Samuel 2:14And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
- 2 Samuel 2:15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 2:16And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath–hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:17And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 2:18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 2 Samuel 2:19And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
- 2 Samuel 2:20Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.
- 2 Samuel 2:21And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
- 2 Samuel 2:22And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
- 2 Samuel 2:23Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
- 2 Samuel 2:24Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
- 2 Samuel 2:26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
- 2 Samuel 2:27And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
- 2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
- 2 Samuel 2:29And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
- 2 Samuel 2:30And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
- 2 Samuel 2:31But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
- 2 Samuel 3:1Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
- 1 Kings 14:30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
- 1 Kings 16:21Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
- Isaiah 19:2And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 11:4Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
- Joshua 22:11And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
- Joshua 22:13And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
- Joshua 22:14And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
- Joshua 22:15And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
- Joshua 22:16Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord?
- Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
- Joshua 22:18But that ye must turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.