War, Man of ('ish milchamah):
"Yahweh is a man of war:
Yahweh is his name" (Exodus 15:3).

In early Israel the character of Yahweh as the war-God forms a prominent feature in the conception of God (Numbers 10:35, Numbers 21:14, Joshua 5:13, Joshua 10:11, Judges 5:4, Judges 5:13, Judges 5:20, Judges 5:23, Judges 5:31, etc.).

See GOD, NAMES OF, III, 8, LORD OF HOSTS; and HDB, V, 635 ff.


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