Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Going to War

When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Marrying a Captive Woman

When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

About forty thousand armed for battle crossed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for war.

But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!”

they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is.

Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time.

For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So Joshua took the entire land, just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.) Then the land had rest from war.

the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.

These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

The Spirit of the Lord came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge and went to war. The Lord gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the Lord, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.’”

“The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.