Quotes about Conquest

I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.

For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.

After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.