Bible Verses About War

Without clever tactics an army is defeated, and victory comes from much planning.

After consultation, plans succeed; so take wise advice when waging war.

A wise man can go up into a city of warriors and undermine the strength in which it trusts.

A horse may be prepared for the day of battle, but victory comes from ADONAI.

For with clever strategy you wage your war, and victory comes from having many advisers.

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

Just as no one has the power to keep the wind from blowing, so no one has power over the day of death. If one is drafted to fight a war, one can't send a substitute; likewise the wicked won't escape death by their wickedness.

there was a small town with few people in it; and a great king came to attack it; he surrounded it and built massive siege-works against it.

Now there was found in it a man who was poor but wise, and by his wisdom he saved the city; yet afterwards, nobody remembered that poor man.

So, although I say that wisdom is better than strength, nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised; nobody pays attention to what he says.

A wise man speaking quietly is more worth heeding than the shouts of a ruler commanding fools.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but a person who makes a mistake can destroy much good.

all of them wield the sword and are expert fighters; each one has his sword ready at his side to combat the terrors of night.

"Your land is desolate, your cities are burned to the ground; foreigners devour your land in your presence; it's as desolate as if overwhelmed by floods.

He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.

People will oppress each other - everyone his friend, everyone his neighbor. The young will be insolent toward their elders, the insignificant arrogant toward the respected.

Your men will fall by the sword and your warriors in battle.

Her gates will lament and mourn; ravaged, she will sit on the ground.

I want to sing a song for someone I love, a song about my loved one and his vineyard. My loved one had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

He dug up its stones and cleared them away, planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and carved out in its rock a winepress. He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only sour, wild grapes.

Now, citizens of Yerushalayim and people of Y'hudah, judge between me and my vineyard.

What more could I have done for my vineyard that I haven't already done in it? So why, when I expected good grapes, did it produce sour, wild grapes?

Now come, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and [its grapes] will be eaten up; I will break through its fence, and [its vines] will be trampled down.

I will let it go to waste: it will be neither pruned nor hoed, but overgrown with briars and thorns. I will also order the clouds not to let rain fall on it.

Now the vineyard of ADONAI-Tzva'ot is the house of Isra'el, and the men of Y'hudah are the plant he delighted in. So he expected justice, but look - bloodshed! - and righteousness, but listen - cries of distress!