To: Abram God spoke,
Genesis 17:5 "No longer shall your name be called
Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For
I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:6 "I
will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and
kings will come forth from you.
Genesis 17:7 "I
will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after
you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God
to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:8 "I
will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings,
all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their
God."
Genesis 17:9 God said further to Abraham, "Now
as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after
you throughout their generations.
In Reading the above, though not direct, Abraham
could not take lands without a fight. The people of that time just didn't
let anyone walk into their land and take it over.
To: Jacob God Spoke, and to the sons of Israel
Genesis 35:10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob;
You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus
He called him Israel.
Genesis 35:11 God also said to him, "I
am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations
shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.
Genesis 35:12 "The
land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will
give the land to your descendants after you."
Genesis 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were so
dim from age that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them close to him,
and he kissed them and embraced them.
Genesis 48:11 Israel said to Joseph, "I never
expected to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your children
as well."
Genesis 48:12 Then Joseph took them from his
knees, and bowed with his face to the ground.
Genesis 48:13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim
with his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand
toward Israel's right, and brought them close to him.
Genesis 48:14 But Israel stretched out his right
hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left
hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the
firstborn.
Genesis 48:15 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The
God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been
my shepherd all my life to this day,
Genesis 48:16 The angel who has redeemed me from
all evil, Bless the lads; And may my name live on in them, And the names
of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And may they grow into a multitude in
the midst of the earth."
Genesis 48:17 When Joseph saw that his father
laid his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him; and he grasped
his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Genesis 48:18 Joseph said to his father, "Not
so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on
his head."
Genesis 48:19 But his father refused and said,
"I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will
be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his
descendants shall become a multitude of nations."
Genesis 48:20 He blessed them that day, saying,
"By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying, "May God make you like
Ephraim and Manasseh!'" Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48:21 Then
Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with
you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Exodus 6:1 THEN the LORD said to Moses,
"Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will
let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land."
Exodus 6:2 God spoke further to Moses and said
to him, "I am the LORD;
Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself
known to them.
Exodus 6:4 "I also established My covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.
Exodus 6:5 "Furthermore I have heard the groaning
of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage,
and I have remembered My covenant.
Exodus 6:6 "Say,
therefore, to the sons of Israel, "I am the LORD, and I will bring you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from
their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with
great judgments.
Exodus 6:7 "Then
I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know
that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians.
Exodus 6:8 "I will
bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.'"
Again in reading the above, though not direct, the sons of Israel could not take lands without a fight. The people of that time just didn't let anyone walk into their land and take it over.
Exodus 15:9 "The enemy said, "I will pursue, I
will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be gratified against
them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.'
Exodus 15:10 "You blew with Your wind, the sea
covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:11 "Who is like You among the gods,
O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working
wonders?
Exodus 15:12 "You stretched out Your right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
It is done, the enemy defeated by the hand of God, a Christian battle indirectly.
Moses led war against Amalek, and through his staff with Gods power.
Exodus 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought against
Israel at Rephidim.
Exodus 17:9 So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose
men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself
on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
Exodus 17:10 Joshua did as Moses told him, and
fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of
the hill.
Exodus 17:11 So it came about when Moses held
his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek
prevailed.
Exodus 17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy. Then
they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and
Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. Thus his
hands were steady until the sun set.
Exodus 17:13 So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus 17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write
this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly
blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."
Exodus 17:15 Moses built an altar and named it
The LORD is My Banner;
Exodus 17:16 and he said, "The LORD has sworn;
the LORD will have war against Amalek from generation to generation."
Exodus 18:1 NOW Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for
Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Moses a Christian leader chose Joshua to lead the people in war against Amalek of which was one through the power of God. (Direct War)
Exodus 33:1 THEN the LORD spoke to Moses, "Depart,
go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land
of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying,
"To your descendants I will give it.'
Exodus 33:2 "I will
send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
The Lord speaking to the Leviticans
Leviticus 26:6 "I shall also grant peace in the
land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall
also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through
your land.
Leviticus 26:7 "But you will chase your enemies
and they will fall before you by the sword;
Leviticus 26:8 five
of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand,
and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:9 "So I will turn toward you and
make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with
you.
Gods powers strengthen the Levitican people that when met by an enemy, they will win the battle.
Gods plan for Joshua to war against AI as he did Jerico
Joshua 8:1 NOW the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not
fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go
up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people,
his city, and his land.
Joshua 8:2 "You shall do to Ai and its king just
as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its
cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
Joshua 8:3 So Joshua rose with all the people
of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and
sent them out at night.
Joshua 8:24 Now when Israel had finished killing
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued
them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were
destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of
the sword.
Joshua 8:25 All who fell that day, both men and
women, were 12,000 -- all the people of Ai.
Joshua 8:26 For Joshua did not withdraw his hand
with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed
all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua slays those of AI
Joshua aided by God continues to wage war and defeat the sons of Israels enemy.
Joshua 10:8 The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear
them, for I have given them into your hands; not one of them shall stand
before you."
Joshua 10:9 So Joshua came upon them suddenly
by marching all night from Gilgal.
Joshua 10:10 And the LORD confounded them before
Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and pursued
them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah
and Makkedah.
Joshua 10:11 As they fled from before Israel,
while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw large stones
from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who
died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with
the sword.
Joshua 10:28 Now Joshua captured Makkedah on
that day, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly
destroyed it and every person who was in it. He left no survivor. Thus
he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:29 Then Joshua and all Israel with
him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
Joshua 10:30 The LORD gave it also with its king
into the hands of Israel, and he struck it and every person who was in
it with the edge of the sword. He left no survivor in it. Thus he did to
its king just as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:31 And Joshua and all Israel with him
passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and they camped by it and fought against
it.
Joshua 10:32 The LORD gave Lachish into the hands
of Israel; and he captured it on the second day, and struck it and every
person who was in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that
he had done to Libnah.
Joshua 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up
to help Lachish, and Joshua defeated him and his people until he had left
him no survivor.
Joshua 10:34 And Joshua and all Israel with him
passed on from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped by it and fought against
it.
Joshua 10:35 They captured it on that day and
struck it with the edge of the sword; and he utterly destroyed that day
every person who was in it, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Joshua 10:36 Then Joshua and all Israel with
him went up from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it.
Joshua 10:37 They captured it and struck it and
its king and all its cities and all the persons who were in it with the
edge of the sword. He left no survivor, according to all that he had done
to Eglon. And he utterly destroyed it and every person who was in it.
Joshua 10:38 Then Joshua and all Israel with
him returned to Debir, and they fought against it.
Joshua 10:39 He captured it and its king and
all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed every person who was in it. He left no survivor. Just as he had
done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had also done to
Libnah and its king.
Joshua 10:40 Thus Joshua struck all the land,
the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes and all their
kings. He left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed,
just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
Joshua 10:41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea
even as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even as far as Gibeon.
Joshua 10:42 Joshua captured all these kings
and their lands at one time, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought
for Israel.
Joshua 10:43 So Joshua and all Israel with him
returned to the camp at Gilgal.
Joshua 11:1 THEN it came about, when Jabin king
of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king
of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua 11:2 and to the kings who were of the
north in the hill country, and in the Arabah -- south of Chinneroth and
in the lowland and on the heights of Dor on the west --
Joshua 11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and
on the west, and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the
Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite at the foot of Hermon in the
land of Mizpeh.
Joshua 11:4 They came out, they and all their
armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore, with
very many horses and chariots.
Joshua 11:5 So all of these kings having agreed
to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against
Israel.
Joshua 11:6 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do
not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will deliver
all of them slain before Israel; you shall hamstring their horses and burn
their chariots with fire."
Joshua 11:7 So Joshua and all the people of war
with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
Joshua 11:8 The LORD delivered them into the
hand of Israel, so that they defeated them, and pursued them as far as
Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and
they struck them until no survivor was left to them.
Joshua 11:9 Joshua did to them as the LORD had
told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Joshua 11:10 Then Joshua turned back at that
time, and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor
formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.
Joshua 11:11 They struck every person who was
in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was no
one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.
Joshua 11:12 Joshua captured all the cities of
these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the
sword, and utterly destroyed them; just as Moses the servant of the LORD
had commanded.
Joshua 11:13 However, Israel did not burn any
cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
Joshua 11:14 All the spoil of these cities and
the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every
man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left
no one who breathed.
Joshua 11:15 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses
his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing
undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
Joshua 11:16 Thus Joshua took all that land:
the hill country and all the Negev, all that land of Goshen, the lowland,
the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Joshua 11:17 from Mount Halak, that rises toward
Seir, even as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount
Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them down and put them
to death.
Joshua 11:18 Joshua waged war a long time with
all these kings.
Joshua 11:19 There was not a city which made
peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they
took them all in battle.
Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden
their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy
them, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them,
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
The above the Chistian Leader Joshua guided by God killed many thousands and many kings of many lands.
The Lord God declares Judah successor to Joshua
Judges 1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came
to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall
go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges 1:2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go
up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
Judges 1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother,
Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites;
and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered
the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them
in Bezek ten thousand men.
Judges 1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek:
and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued
after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and
ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their
meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they
brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Judges 1:8 Now the children of Judah had fought
against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the
sword, and set the city on fire.
Judges 1:9 And afterward the children of Judah
went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain,
and in the south, and in the valley.
Judges 1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites
that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:)
and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:11 And from thence he went against the
inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
Judges 1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother,
and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed
it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
Judges 1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast
thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
Judges 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and
he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges 1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb,
as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
David slays the Philistinian
Samuel I 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine,
Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but
I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies
of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Samuel I 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver
thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee;
and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto
the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the
earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
Samuel I 17:47 And all this assembly shall know
that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's,
and he will give you into our hands.
Samuel I 17:48 And it came to pass, when the
Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted,
and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
Samuel I 17:49 And David put his hand in his
bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in
his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his
face to the earth.
Samuel I 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine
with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him;
but there was no sword in the hand of David.
With Gods help David slays Goliath and others
as well as the Philistinian mentioned above