Bible Verses About War: Wisdom required in

The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.

Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.

And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?

The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.

Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.