<p class="poetry">But you have plowed wickedness;p> <p class="poetry">you have reaped injustice;p> <p class="poetry">you have eaten the fruit of deception.p> <p class="poetry">Because you have depended on your chariots;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have relied<n id="2" /> on your many warriors.p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> charge<n id="2" /> like warriors;p> <p class="poetry">they scale walls like soldiers.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Each one proceeds on his course;p> <p class="poetry">they do not alter<n id="4" /> their path.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Proclaim this among the nations:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Prepare for a holy war!p> <p class="poetry">Call out the warriors!p> <p class="poetry">Let all these fighting men approach and attack!<n id="1" />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>

<p class="poetry">Lend your aid<n id="1" /> and come,p> <p class="poetry">all you surrounding nations,p> <p class="poetry">and gather yourselves<n id="2" /> to that place.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Bring down, O <sc>Lordsc>, your warriors!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Fast runners will find no place to hide;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">strong men will have no strength left;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">warriors will not be able to save their lives.p>

<p class="poetry">Bravehearted<n id="1" /> warriors will run away naked in that day.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so that<n id="2" /> everyone<n id="3" /> will be destroyed<n id="4" /> from Esau&#8217;s mountain!p>

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>

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times,<n id="1" /> who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones,<n id="2" /> when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you,<n id="1" /> along with its king and its warriors.

<p class="bodytext">Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai.<n id="1" /> Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

All Jerusalem was terrified<n id="1" /> because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Call judgment down on<n id="1" /> Meroz,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s angelic<n id="2" /> messenger;p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Be sure<n id="3" /> to call judgment down on<n id="4" /> those who live there,p> <p class="poetry">because they did not come to help in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s battle,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to help in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s battle against the warriors.&#8217;<n id="6" />p>

<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>

<p class="poetry">From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors,p> <p class="poetry">the bow of Jonathan was not turned away.p> <p class="poetry">The sword of Saul never returned<n id="1" /> empty.p>

He threw stones at David and all of King David&#8217;s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

So Joab&#8217;s men, accompanied by the Kerethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors, left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.p>

and said, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, I will not do this!<n id="1" /> It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.<n id="3" />p>