Friends & Foes:
Enemies around Israel
Dt 20:10-15
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall
be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and
shall serve you.
12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then
you shall besiege it:
13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every
male of it with the edge of the sword:
14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the
city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall
eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you,
which are not of the cities of these nations.
Jsh 23:1
It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their
enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
Ps 83:2-8
2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3 They conspire with cunning against your people.
They plot against your cherished ones.
4 “Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 For they have conspired together with one mind.
They form an alliance against you.
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also is joined with them.
They have helped the children of Lot.
Is 41:11-13
11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and
confounded.
Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall
perish.
12 You will seek them, and won’t find them,
even those who contend with you.
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a non-existent thing.
13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
I will help you.’
Jr 12:14-17
14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance
which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up
from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and
every man to his land.
16 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to
swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by
Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and
destroying it, says Yahweh.
Ezk 28:24,26
24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting
thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
26 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant
vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those
who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their
God.
Ezk 36:2-7
2 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and,
The ancient high places are ours in possession;
3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might
be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips
of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus
says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and
to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken,
which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are
all around;
5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I
spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have
appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their
heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and
to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the
shame of the nations:
7 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying, Surely the
nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.
Ezk 38:1-8
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal:
4 and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you
forth, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full
armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of
the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
7 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are
assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come
into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it
is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of
them.
Zc 12:2,6
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding
peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood,
and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the
surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will
yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zc 14:14
Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding
nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great
abundance.
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