Quotes about Engagement

“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

“Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’

Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.

So Abner told him, “Turn to your right or to your left, seize one of the young men, and take his equipment for yourself.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.

So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.

When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, advanced toward the Arameans, and arrayed for battle against them. When David lined up to engage them in battle, they fought against him.