You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers,<n id="1" /> with warriors and all the soldiers,&#8217; declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Beat your plowshares<n id="1" /> into swords,p> <p class="poetry">and your pruning hooks<n id="2" /> into spears!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Let the weak say, &#8216;I too am a warrior!&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

He was a mighty hunter<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> (That is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;)

<p class="bodytext">Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">There was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. So whenever Saul saw anyone who was a warrior or a brave individual, he would conscript him.p>

Jeroboam was a talented man;<n id="1" /> when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe<n id="2" /> of Joseph.

Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king&#8217;s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king&#8217;s second-in-command.

<p class="poetry">Then you<n id="1" /> spoke through a vision to your faithful followers<n id="2" /> and said:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I have energized a warrior;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I have raised up a young man<n id="4" /> from the people.p>

<p class="poetry">The nations will hear of your devastating defeat.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your cries of distress will echo throughout the earth.p> <p class="poetry">In the panic of their flight one soldier will trip over anotherp> <p class="poetry">and both of them will fall down defeated.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s great day of judgment<n id="1" /> is almost here;p> <p class="poetry">it is approaching very rapidly!p> <p class="poetry">There will be a bitter sound on the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s day of judgment;p> <p class="poetry">at that time warriors will cry out in battle.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> your God is in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">he is a warrior who can deliver.p> <p class="poetry">He takes great delight in you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he renews you by his love;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he shouts for joy over you.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow!<n id="1" /> I will stir up your sons, Zion, against yours, Greece, and I will make you, Zion,<n id="2" /> like a warrior&#8217;s sword.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a Benjaminite man named Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. He was a prominent person.

If that happens even the bravest soldier &#8211; one who is lion-hearted &#8211; will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria&#8217;s army, was esteemed and respected by his master,<n id="1" /> for through him the <sc>Lordsc> had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease.<n id="2" />

Abijah launched the attack with 400,000 well-trained warriors,<n id="1" /> while Jeroboam deployed against him 800,000 well-trained warriors.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> sent a messenger<n id="1" /> and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib<n id="2" /> returned home humiliated.<n id="3" /> When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons<n id="4" /> struck him down with the sword.

<p class="poetry">For a child has been<n id="1" /> born to us,p> <p class="poetry">a son has been given to us.p> <p class="poetry">He shoulders responsibilityp> <p class="poetry">and is called:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Extraordinary Strategist,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Mighty God,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Everlasting Father,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Prince of Peace.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;captives will be taken from a warrior;p> <p class="poetry">spoils will be rescued from a conqueror.p> <p class="poetry">I will oppose your adversaryp> <p class="poetry">and I will rescue your children.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">David assembled in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.p>