Bible Verses About War: Wisdom required in

A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.

Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

`Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

and if not so--he being yet a long way off--having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.