Righteous Self Defense
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Scripture states that there is nothing new under the sun….that includes violence and self-defense! As a people with a Biblical history the Israelites has had to defend themselves from after the time Cain killed Able until this present time. Our enemies hate us because it is a part of the punishment/curses we are under due to the disobedience of our ancestors and even now because of our own disobedience. However there is a just way, a perfect way and YHWH will avenge us of our enemies. We can call on our Father and place our petition before his feet as David did many times before he got permission to fight in battles. Yet and still we are allowed to defend ourselves in a righteous way that will not offend our El. The Most High has allowed our people to fight in many battles to defend holy things as well as territory.
Battles such as when the Philistines took the Ark of the Covenant in 1 Samuel and the fight against the Midians lead by Gideon in Judges 7 & 8. There are many instances that Yah has even helped us to bring home the victory and He will do it again, again until the end when we win anyway! One very important thing is not moving before our Power but waiting on Him to either fight for us or to give us the go ahead to defend ourselves. Sell your cloak and buy a sword.
Psalm 109 (King James
Version)
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and
fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto
prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my
love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let
them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let
there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation
following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he
may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered
not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even
slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let
it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with
cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water,
and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the
garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded
continually.
20 Let this be the reward of
mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my
soul.
21 But do thou for me,
O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good,
deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and
my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow
when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through
fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach
unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my
God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this
is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless
thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be
clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as
with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise
the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the
right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
2 Samuel 10 (King James
Version)
1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by
the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon.
3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun
their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to
search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the
one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to
their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because
the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your
beards be grown, and then return.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the
Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men,
and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host
of the mighty men.
8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob,
and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him
before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians:
10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of
Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of
Ammon.
11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I
will come and help thee.
12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our
people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord do that which
seemeth him good.
13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him,
unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were
fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab
returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before
Israel, they gathered themselves together.
16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were
beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host
of Hadarezer went before them.
17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set
themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men
of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and
smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
19 And when all the kings that
were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made
peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children
of Ammon any more.
Israelite Gifts 