Bible Verses About War

And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:

And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.

And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.

And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.

And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,

Said: Why have you saved the women?

Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.

And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.

And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,

And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:

I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.

Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.

When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,

The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.

Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.

Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:

He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.