Quotes about Conflict
The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
— Judges 1:21
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
— Judges 1:28
The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
— Judges 1:34
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
— Judges 4:21
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
— Judges 5:8
Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
— Judges 5:18
Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
— Judges 5:19
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
— Judges 5:26
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
— Judges 6:2
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
— Judges 6:3
And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
— Judges 7:22
Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
— Judges 8:1