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Attacking (73 Occurrences)
...Attacking (73 Occurrences). ... Acts 9:4 And he went down on the earth, and a voice said
to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? (BBE). ...
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Cruelly (26 Occurrences)
... prison. (WEY). Acts 9:4 And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to
him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? (BBE). ...
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Design (84 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 15:27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret
design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines ...
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Attacked (93 Occurrences)
... the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they
went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them; (See RSV ...
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Offensive (15 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; --
opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. ...
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Chushanrishathaim (2 Occurrences)
... Canaan was still regarded as a province of Egypt, so that, in attacking it
Chushan-rishathaim would have been considered to be attacking Egypt. Int. ...
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Chushan-rishathaim (2 Occurrences)
... Canaan was still regarded as a province of Egypt, so that, in attacking it
Chushan-rishathaim would have been considered to be attacking Egypt. Int. ...
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Assault (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.;
an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make ...
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Ambush (39 Occurrences)
... 45. Comp. Jeremiah 51:12). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The act of
lying in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise. 2 ...
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Attack (221 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To make an onset or attack. 6. (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on
with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense. ...
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Bible Concordance

Attacking (73 Occurrences)

Luke 12:53 father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law her mother-in-law."
(WEY)

Acts 9:4 And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
(BBE)

Acts 9:5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:
(BBE)

Acts 9:21 And all those hearing him were full of wonder and said, Is not this the man who in Jerusalem was attacking all the worshippers of this name? and he had come here so that he might take them as prisoners before the chief priests.
(BBE)

Acts 16:22 And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.
(See RSV)

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.
(BBE NAS)

Acts 22:7 And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
(BBE)

Acts 22:8 And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking.
(BBE)

Acts 25:16 To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.
(BBE)

Acts 26:14 And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.
(BBE)

Acts 26:15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 20:2 And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 20:10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 28:35 The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.
(BBE)

Joshua 10:19 But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.
(BBE)

Judges 6:31 But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 1:7 And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 7:11 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and went after the Philistines, attacking them till they came under Beth-car.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 11:1 Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 11:11 Now on the day after, Saul put the people into three bands, and in the morning watch they came to the tents of the Ammonites, and they went on attacking them till the heat of the day: and those who were not put to death were put to flight in every direction, so that no two of them were together.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 14:22 And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 2:26 Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
(BBE)

2 Samuel 2:27 And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 3:22 Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 5:25 And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.
(BBE)

1 Kings 15:19 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.
(BBE)

1 Kings 15:20 So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.
(BBE)

1 Kings 15:27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.
(BBE)

1 Kings 16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.
(BBE)

1 Kings 20:12 Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.
(BBE)

1 Kings 22:20 Yahweh said,'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said one thing; and another said another.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 3:24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;
(BBE)

2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.
(BBE)

2 Kings 15:14 Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.
(BBE)

2 Kings 15:25 And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.
(BBE)

2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.
(BBE)

2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me."
(See RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:9 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 14:16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 16:3 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 16:4 And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 18:19 Yahweh said,'Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:10 And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are on you.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 28:23 For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make haste: beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.
(See NIV)

Esther 8:11 In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,
(BBE)

Esther 9:2 On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.
(BBE)

Psalms 54:3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
(See NIV)

Psalms 56:2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 86:14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.
(See NIV)

Psalms 119:84 How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
(BBE)

Isaiah 9:21 Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
(BBE)

Isaiah 11:14 And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 12:9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 15:15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
(BBE)

Jeremiah 17:18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 21:2 Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 29:18 I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:
(BBE)

Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 32:29 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 37:5 And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)
(BBE)

Jeremiah 37:10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 41:2 Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, got up, and attacking Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, put to death him whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.
(BBE)

Daniel 6:5 Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.
(BBE)

Daniel 8:7 And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.
(BBE)

Daniel 11:8 Also their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north.
(See NAS RSV)

Obadiah 1:5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?
(BBE)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attack.

Greek

2186. ephistemi -- to set upon, set up, to stand upon, be present
... Word Origin from epi and histemi Definition to set upon, set up, to stand upon,
be present NASB Word Usage appeared (3), attacking (1), came (5), come (3 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5909. akbar -- a mouse
... mouse. Probably from the same as akkabiysh in the secondary sense of attacking;
a mouse (as nibbling) -- mouse. see HEBREW akkabiysh. 5908, 5909. akbar. 5910 ...
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Library

How Impious the Arians Are, in Attacking that on which Human ...
... Book V. Chapter I. How impious the Arians are, in attacking that on which
human happiness depends.� How impious the Arians are ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter i how impious the.htm

The Arians Openly Take Sides with the Heathen in Attacking the ...
... Book V. Chapter X. The Arians openly take sides with the heathen in attacking
the words� The Arians openly take sides with the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter x the arians openly.htm

Of the Necessity of the Wager
... Quid fiet hominibus qui minima contemnunt, majora non credunt? [24]. 194. ... Let
them at least learn what is the religion they attack, before attacking it. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section iii of the necessity.htm

2 Cor. xii. 16-18
... of that receiving, but so modulates those also who are sent by him that he may not
give so much as a slight pretence to those who were desirous of attacking him ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxviii 2 cor xii.htm

The Heretics, from their Disbelief of the Truth, have Fallen into ...
... 2. But since these men delight in attacking us, and in their true character of
cavillers assail us with points which really tell not at all against us ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xi the heretics from their.htm

I Might Well Reply as I have done Even if it were a Question of a ...
... You are attacking a creature who has horns: and, if it were not that I lay to heart
the words of the Apostle "The evil speakers shall not inherit the kingdom ...
/.../31 i might well reply.htm

The Scheme of Necessity Denies that Man is Responsible for the ...
... But here the question arises: Can we refute the argument against the accountability
of man, without attacking the doctrine on which it is founded? ...
/.../a theodicy or vindication of the divine glory/chapter i the scheme of.htm

The Valleys --Experiences of Suffering and Sacrifice
... The French did the attacking all day, until Wellington's famous charge came at its
close. ... the tempter can't go a step beyond attacking, without your help. ...
/.../quiet talks on following the christ/3 the valleysexperiences of suffering.htm

Indwelling Sin
... will notice, the Apostle says, "O, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
from the body of this death?" Now, this proves that he was not attacking his sin ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/indwelling sin.htm

But Suffer it to be So, I Beg You, as You are Lovers of Christ ...
... rhetorician, though seeming to be arguing against him is really striking at me;
and this he does no longer indirectly, but ends by openly attacking me with his ...
/.../8 but suffer it to.htm

Subtopics

Attacking

Related Terms

Cruelly (26 Occurrences)

Design (84 Occurrences)

Attacked (93 Occurrences)

Offensive (15 Occurrences)

Chushanrishathaim (2 Occurrences)

Chushan-rishathaim (2 Occurrences)

Assault (8 Occurrences)

Ambush (39 Occurrences)

Attack (221 Occurrences)