Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.


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2 Timothy 2 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Isaiah 60 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Numbers 14 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Ezra 8 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
2 Kings 18 20 Thou sayest, but they are but vain words, I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Numbers 10 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
1 Kings 20 42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
Ezekiel 18 5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Isaiah 10 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Micah 4 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Judges 21 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
2 Corinthians 5 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Isaiah 3 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Deuteronomy 19 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Ezekiel 17 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Jeremiah 48 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
John 11 52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Obadiah 1 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
Isaiah 8 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Jeremiah 18 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
2 Chronicles 29 9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Ezekiel 36 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Kings 20 18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
Lamentations 4 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Luke 17 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Deuteronomy 12 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Jeremiah 38 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Acts 14 18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
Deuteronomy 8 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Genesis 42 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Matthew 18 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
1 Samuel 12 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
Psalms 78 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psalms 108 13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Acts 27 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Psalms 124 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Lamentations 3 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Zephaniah 2 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Isaiah 2 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Luke 1 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
2 Chronicles 15 13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
1 Samuel 17 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands.
2 Chronicles 6 34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
1 John 3 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Isaiah 36 5 I say, sayest thou, but they are but vain words I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Psalms 44 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Exodus 23 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Deuteronomy 2 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
2 Chronicles 33 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.