18 Bible Verses About Israel and War, Including the Ones Where God Fights Against It

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概要

  • In these passages God fights for Israel, and in others he fights against it — Jeremiah 21:5 has him joining the siege of Jerusalem himself, using the exodus phrases pointed the other way.
  • Judges 3:12 has the Lord strengthening a foreign king against Israel, which rules out reading every enemy of Israel as an enemy of God.
  • The prophets charge conduct rather than ancestry: Isaiah 13 indicts Babylon for arrogance, Habakkuk indicts an empire for building a city with blood.
  • Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3 end the subject with weapons converted into farm tools and the skill of war no longer taught.
  • Ephesians 6:12 keeps the military vocabulary and removes every human target from it.

In these passages God fights for Israel, and in others he fights against it. Both are in the same Bible, often in the same century, and anyone searching this subject should meet the second half as well as the first. Jeremiah has God turning back Israel’s own weapons and joining the siege against Jerusalem himself. Judges has him strengthening a foreign king to discipline his own people. The eighteen passages below keep that symmetry, because a page that gives only…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The exemptions in Israel’s war law — a new house, a new vineyard, a new marriage — are at Deuteronomy 20:5-7.

The covenant penalties Leviticus 26:23-25 enforces are published in advance at Leviticus 26:14-22.

Isaiah calls Cyrus, a Persian king, the Lord’s anointed at Isaiah 45:1, four verses before Isaiah 45:7.

Zechariah 9:9, the verse before the disarmament, is quoted of Palm Sunday at Matthew 21:5.

Nothing on this page is a claim about any present-day conflict.

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