KJV King James Version
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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Psalm 76:3
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
WEB World English Bible
There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 76
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. In Judah [is] God known: his name [is] great in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
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Psalm 46:9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.Ezekiel 39:3-4And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.Ezekiel 39:9-10And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:2 Chronicles 32:21And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.Isaiah 37:35-36For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.2 Chronicles 14:12-13So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.2 Chronicles 20:25And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
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