Bible Verses About War

Nevertheless, ADONAI your God will give them over to you, sending one disaster after another upon them until they have been destroyed.

He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their name from under heaven; none of them will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

"When you go out to fight your enemies and see horses, chariots and a force larger than yours, you are not to be afraid of them; because ADONAI your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

because ADONAI your God is going with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies and give you victory.'

When ADONAI your God hands it over to you, you are to put every male to the sword.

However, you are to take as booty for yourself the women, the little ones, the livestock, and everything in the city - all its spoil. Yes, you will feed on your enemies' spoil, which ADONAI your God has given you.

This is what you are to do to all the towns which are at a great distance from you, which are not the towns of these nations.

"As for the towns of these peoples, which ADONAI your God is giving you as your inheritance, you are not to allow anything that breathes to live.

Rather you must destroy them completely - the Hitti, the Emori, the Kena'ani, the P'rizi, the Hivi and the Y'vusi - as ADONAI your God has ordered you;

so that they won't teach you to follow their abominable practices, which they do for their gods, thus causing you to sin against ADONAI your God.

"ADONAI your God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth.

Your carcasses will become food for all the birds in the air and the wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.

ADONAI will strike you down with the boils that broke out on the Egyptians, tumors, skin lesions and itching, all incurable.

ADONAI will strike you with insanity, blindness and utter confusion.

You will grope about at noon like a blind person groping in the dark, unable to find your way. "You will be continually oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.

You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will marry her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not use its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you won't eat any of its meat. Your donkey will be taken away from you by force as you watch, and you won't get it back. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.

Your sons and daughters will be handed over to another people; you will watch for them longingly all day but not see them; and there will be nothing you can do about it.

A nation unknown to you will eat the fruit of your land and labor. Yes, you will be continually oppressed and crushed,

till you go crazy from what your eyes have to see.

ADONAI will strike you down in the knees and legs with painful and incurable boils; they will spread from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

ADONAI will bring you and your king whom you have put over yourselves to a nation you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

You will be so devastated as to become a proverb and a laughingstock among all the peoples to which ADONAI will drive you.

"You will carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, because locusts will devour it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them but neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.