Quotes About Spiritual warfare

Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.

“Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORDís arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”

Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped.

But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”

And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.

Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my masterís servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ëGo up against this land and destroy it.í”

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.í”

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

The people of Jebus said to David, “You will never get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.

There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.

Once again the Philistines raided the valley.

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

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of Davidís descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.