Quotes About Battle

Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak, rushing into the valley at his heels. In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.

ëCurse Meroz,í says the angel of the LORD. ëBitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.í

At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.

Siseraís mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ëWhy is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?í

ëAre they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?í

“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”

Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Calling them to arms, Gideon sent messengers throughout Manasseh, as well as Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, so that they came up to meet him.

Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ëWhoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.í” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.

That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.

and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.

His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ramís horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ëFor the LORD and for Gideon!í”

Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.

The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.

And when the three hundred ramsí horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.