Quotes About Peace

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

You shall not murder.

When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ëI will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.í This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.

Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.