Bible Verses About Armies

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

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

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

and next to him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for war.

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

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: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that 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.

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

And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

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

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the battlements, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant:

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:

Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. [Selah

Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that 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.