Quotes About Spiritual warfare

the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.

So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.

But if they say, ëCome on up,í then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”

So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.

That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.

and sent you on a mission, saying, ëGo and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.í

The Philistines stood on one hill and the Israelites stood on another, with the valley between them.

and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,

and he had armor of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

Then the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day! Give me a man to fight!”

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.