Quotes about Conflict
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
— Judges 9:45
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
— Judges 9:53
And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
— Judges 9:55
The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
— Judges 10:9
Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
— Judges 10:17
Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel
— Judges 11:4
and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
— Judges 11:5
“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
— Judges 11:6
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
— Judges 11:7
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
— Judges 11:12
to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
— Judges 11:15
But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
— Judges 11:20