Quotes About Conflict

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.

Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

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

So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.

Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

All these kings joined forces and encamped at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,

This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;

but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.

But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.

And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

So the Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out.

The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,