Topic
Soldiers
41 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 1:1–54Nave Military enrollment of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the…
- Numbers 2:1–34Nave Military enrollment of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. And on the east side…
- Numbers 26:1–65Nave On the plains of Moab
And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house,…
- Deuteronomy 20:5–9Nave Others exempt from service
¶ And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. And what man is he that hath…
- Deuteronomy 20:8Nave Cowards excused from duty as
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
- Deuteronomy 24:5Nave Others exempt from service
¶ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
- Judges 7:3Nave Cowards excused from duty as
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
- Judges 20:10Nave Levies of, in the ratio of one man to ten subject to duty
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the…
- Isaiah 59:16Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the divine protection
¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- Isaiah 59:17Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the divine protection
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
- Nahum 2:3Nave Dressed in scarlet
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
- Matthew 27:27–31Nave Mock Jesus
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. ¶ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed…
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- Matthew 27:27 Nave Crucified Jesus
- Matthew 27:31–37 Nave Crucified Jesus
- Matthew 27:65 Nave Guard the gravesite of Jesus
- Matthew 28:11–15 Nave Guard the gravesite of Jesus
- Mark 15:16–20 Nave Mock Jesus
- Mark 15:16–24 Nave Crucified Jesus
- Luke 3:14 Nave Come to John
- Luke 22:4 Nave Officers concerned in the betrayal of Jesus
- Luke 23:11 Nave Mock Jesus
- Luke 23:36 Nave Mock Jesus
- Luke 23:37 Nave Mock Jesus
- John 19:23 Nave Crucified Jesus
- John 19:24 Nave Crucified Jesus
- Acts 12:4–6 Nave Guard prisoners
- Acts 12:19 Nave Their duty as sentinels
- Acts 21:31–35 Nave Maintain the peace
- Acts 21:31–33 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 21:35 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 22:24–28 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 23:23 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 23:31–33 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 27:1 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 27:31 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 27:42 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 27:43 Nave Perform escort duty
- Acts 28:16 Nave Guard prisoners
- Ephesians 6:11–17 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the Christian
- 2 Timothy 2:3 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the Christian
- Hebrews 2:10 Nave FIGURATIVE — Jesus called CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 42 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Military enrollment of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai Nu 1; 2
- → On the plains of Moab Nu 26
- → Levies of, in the ratio of one man to ten subject to duty Jud 20:10
- → Dressed in scarlet Na 2:3
- → Cowards excused from duty as De 20:8; Jud 7:3
- → Others exempt from service De 20:5-9; 24:5
- → Come to John Lu 3:14
- → Mock Jesus Mt 27:27-31; Mr 15:16-20; Lu 23:11,36,37
- → Officers concerned in the betrayal of Jesus Lu 22:4
- → Crucified Jesus Mt 27:27,31-37; Mr 15:16-24; Joh 19:23,24
- → Guard the gravesite of Jesus Mt 27:65; 28:11-15
- → Guard prisoners Ac 12:4-6; 28:16
- → Maintain the peace Ac 21:31-35
- → Their duty as sentinels Ac 12:19
- → Perform escort duty Ac 21:31-33,35; 22:24-28; 23:23,31-33; 27:1,31,42,43; 28:16
- → FIGURATIVE
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.