The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,
And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.
See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.
Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.
And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:
And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:
And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.
And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.
(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.
And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,
But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.
And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.
And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.
Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.
Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.
My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war.
Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.
<Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.
They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.
The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.
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