Who of the Israelites was subject to service in
Numbers 1:2,3; 26:2; 2 Chronicles 25:5
Who was exempt from service in
Numbers 1:47-50; 2:33; Deuteronomy 20:5-9; Judges 7:3
Enumeration of Israel’s military forces
Numbers 1:2,3; 26:2; 1 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 18:1,2; 24:1-9; 1 Kings 20:15; 2 Chronicles 25:5
Levies
Numbers 31:4; Judges 20:10
Compulsory service in
1 Samuel 14:52
How officered.
Commander-in-chief
1 Samuel 14:50; 2 Samuel 2:8; 8:16; 17:25; 19:13; 20:23
Generals of corps and divisions
Numbers 2:3,31; 1 Chronicles 27:1-22; 2 Chronicles 17:12-19
Captains of thousands
Numbers 31:14,48; 1 Samuel 17:18; 1 Chronicles 28:1; 2 Chronicles 25:5
Captains of hundreds
Numbers 31:14,48; 2 Kings 11:15; 1 Chronicles 28:1; 2 Chronicles 25:5
Captains of fifties
2 Kings 1:9; Isaiah 3:3
Sounding a trumpet
Numbers 10:9; Judges 3:27; 6:34; 1 Samuel 13:3,4
Cutting oxen in pieces and sending the pieces throughout Israel
1 Samuel 11:7
Refusal to obey the summons
Judges 21:5-11; 20
Tactics
Camp and march
Numbers 2
March in ranks
Exodus 13:18
Margin note
1 Chronicles 12:33; Joel 2:7
Move, in attack, in three divisions
Judges 7:16; 9:43; 1 Samuel 11:11; 13:17,18; 2 Samuel 18:2; Job 1:17
Flanks called wings
Isaiah 8:8
Orders delivered with trumpets
2 Samuel 2:28; 18:16; 20:1,22; Nehemiah 4:18,20
Stratagems
Ambushes, at Ai
Joshua 8:2-22
Ambushes at Shechem
Judges 9:25,34
Ambushes at Gibeah
Judges 20:29-43
Ambushes at Zemaraim
2 Chronicles 13:13
By Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 20:22
Reconnoissances
Of Jericho
Joshua 2:1-24
Of Ai
Joshua 7:2,3
Of Beth-el
Judges 1:23,24
Of Laish
Judges 18:2-10
Night attacks
Genesis 14:15; Judges 7:16-22
Decoy
Joshua 8:4-22; Judges 20:29-43; Nehemiah 6
Unusual winter campaign
2 Samuel 11:1; 1 Chronicles 20:1
Delay
2 Samuel 17:7-14
Celerity of action
Abraham, in pursuit of Chedorlaomer
Genesis 14:14,15
Joshua, against the Amorites
Joshua 10:6,9
The confederated kings
Joshua 11:7
David’s attack upon the Philistines
2 Samuel 5:23-25
Forced marches
Isaiah 5:26,27
Sieges
Jeremiah 39:1
Of Jericho
Joshua 6
Of Samaria
2 Kings 6:24-33; 7
Of Jerusalem
2 Kings 25:1-3
“Engines” used
2 Chronicles 26:15; Jeremiah 6:6
Margin
Ezekiel 26:9
Fortifications
Judges 9:31; 2 Samuel 5:9; 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 11:11; 26:9; Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 4:2; Isaiah 22:10; 25:12; 29:3; 32:14; Jeremiah 6:6; 32:24; 33:4; 51:53; Ezekiel 4:2; 17:17; 21:22; 26:8; 33:27; Daniel 11:15,19; Nahum 2:1; 3:14
Standards
Numbers 2:2,3,10,17,18,25,31,34; 10:14,18,22,25
Uniforms
Ezekiel 23:6,12; Nahum 2:3
Standing armies
1 Samuel 13:2; 1 Chronicles 27; 2 Chronicles 1:14; 17:12-19; 26:11-15
Religious ceremonies attending
Seeking counsel from God before battle
Numbers 27:21; Judges 1:1; 1 Samuel 14:19,37-41; 23:2-12; 30:8; 2 Samuel 2:1; 5:19,23; 1 Kings 22:7-28; 2 Kings 3:11-19; 1 Chronicles 14:10,14; Jeremiah 37:7-10
Sacrifices
1 Samuel 13:11,12
Purifications
Numbers 31:19-24
Holiness enjoined
Deuteronomy 23:9
Officers consecrate themselves to God
2 Chronicles 17:16
Army choir and songs
2 Chronicles 20:21,22
Ark taken to battle
Joshua 6:6,7,13; 1 Samuel 4:4-11
Divine assistance to
When Aaron and Hur held up Moses’ hands
Exodus 17:11,12
In the siege of Jericho
Joshua 6
Sun stands still
Joshua 10:11-14
Gideon’s victory
Judges 7
Samaria’s deliverances
1 Kings 20; 2 Kings 7
Jehoshaphat’s victories
2 Kings 3; 2 Chronicles 20
Angel of the Lord smites the Assyrians
2 Kings 19:35
Determine royal succession
2 Samuel 2:8-10; 1 Kings 16:16; 2 Kings 11:4-12
Composed of insurgents
1 Samuel 22:1,2
Mercenaries
2 Samuel 10:6; 1 Chronicles 19:6,7; 2 Chronicles 25:5,6
Confederated
Joshua 10:1-5; 11:1-5; Judges 1:3; 2 Samuel 10:6,15,16,19; 1 Kings 15:20; 22:1-4; 2 Kings 16:9; 18:19-21; 1 Chronicles 19:6,7; 2 Chronicles 16:2-9; 18:1,3; 20:1; 22:5; 28:16,20; Psalms 83:1-12; Isaiah 7:1-9; 8:9-12; 54:15
Exhorted before battle
Deuteronomy 20:1-9
Battle shouts
Judges 7:18; 1 Samuel 17:20,52
Triumphs of armies, celebrated
With songs
Judges 5; 1 Samuel 18:6,7
With music
2 Chronicles 20:28
With dancing
1 Samuel 18:6,7
Rewards for meritorious conduct
The general offers his daughter in marriage
Joshua 15:16,17
The king offers his daughter
1 Samuel 17:25; 18:17-28
A promotion
2 Samuel 23:8-39; 1 Chronicles 11:6,10-47
A share the spoils
Numbers 31:25-47
Children instructed in military arts
2 Samuel 1:18
Insubordination in, punished, Achan
Joshua 7
Check roll-call
1 Samuel 14:17; Numbers 31:48,49
Panics
Isaiah 30:17
Among the Midianites
Judges 7:21
Among the Philistines
1 Samuel 14:15-19
Among the Syrians
2 Kings 7:7-15
Soldiers destroy each other to escape captivity
1 Samuel 14:20; 31:4-6
Champions fight instead of
1 Samuel 17:8-53; 2 Samuel 2:14-17; 21:15-22
Confidence in vain
Psalms 33:16; 44:6
Escort duty performed by
2 Kings 1:9; Acts 23:23,24,31-33
Roman army
Captains (RSV margin, military tribunes) of
Acts 22:24-29
Centurions
Matthew 8:5,8; 27:54; Luke 7:2; 23:47; Acts 10:1,7,22; 21:32; Acts 22:26; 23:17,23; 24:23; 27:1,11,43; 28:16
Divided into “bands” (RSV margin, cohorts)
Acts 10:1; 27:1
Figurative
Deuteronomy 33:2; 2 Kings 6:17; Psalms 34:7; 68:17; Revelation 9:16
