Defending Your Family

Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: — read the full passage →

But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. — read the full passage →

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — read the full passage →