Joel 3:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

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  • Isa 2:4 : 4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
  • Mic 4:3 : 3 And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.
  • Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
  • Luke 22:36 : 36 And he said to them, But now, he who has a money-bag, or a bag for food, let him take it: and he who has not, let him give his coat for money and get a sword.
  • 2 Chr 25:8 : 8 But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

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  • 9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

  • Joel 3:11-13
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    81%

    11 And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

    12 See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;

    13 I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

  • 3 And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.

  • 4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.

  • Jer 46:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.

    4 Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

  • Nah 3:14-15
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    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • 20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

  • 1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • 15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

  • 13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

  • 3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

  • 4 (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);

  • Ezek 21:9-10
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    9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:

    10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...

  • 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

  • 9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • 15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

  • 14 How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

  • 4 The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

  • 13 You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

  • 20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

  • 9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • 13 For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

  • 9 Be strong, O Philistines, be men! Do not be servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you: go forward to the fight without fear.

  • 13 You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

  • 25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • 23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • 10 Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

  • 4 Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

  • 9 Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

  • 7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

  • 35 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • 5 Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.

  • 9 Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.

  • 34 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • 8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

  • 12 Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?

  • 21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • 30 Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.

  • 2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

  • 10 Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

  • 10 And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

  • 3 Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

  • 17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.