Psalms 78:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

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  • Deut 1:41-44 : 41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country. 42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you. 43 This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country. 44 And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.
  • Josh 17:16-18 : 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel. 17 Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only, 18 For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
  • Judg 9:28 : 28 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?
  • Judg 9:38-40 : 38 Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them. 39 So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech. 40 And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.
  • Judg 20:39 : 39 The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.
  • 1 Sam 4:10 : 10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.
  • 1 Sam 31:1 : 1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.
  • 1 Chr 12:2 : 2 They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

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  • Ps 78:57
    79%

    57Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

  • Ps 78:8
    75%

    8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Ps 78:10
    72%

    10They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

  • Ps 21:12
    72%

    12Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

  • Zech 9:13
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    13For 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.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

  • Num 1:32-33
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    70%

    32The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

    33Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.

  • Judg 20:42
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    42So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

  • 2 Chr 28:12
    69%

    12Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah, the son of Johanan, Berechiah, the son of Meshillemoth Jehizkiah, the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, put themselves against those who had come from the war,

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    69%

    16But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

  • Judg 8:1
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    1And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.

  • Isa 21:15
    69%

    15For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
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    30And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

  • Judg 12:4-5
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    4Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.

    5And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

  • Hos 5:9
    68%

    9Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
    68%

    6So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.

  • Hos 12:14
    68%

    14And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

  • Judg 10:9
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    9And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

  • Hos 9:17
    68%

    17My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

  • Exod 13:17
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    17Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

  • Isa 31:6
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    6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Isa 9:21
    67%

    21Manasseh 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.

  • Hos 9:13
    67%

    13As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.

  • 2 Chr 25:10
    67%

    10So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.

  • Num 10:22
    67%

    22Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
    67%

    22And 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.

  • 2 Chr 13:14
    67%

    14And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

  • Jer 46:5
    67%

    5What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

  • Hos 11:7
    67%

    7My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

  • Ps 78:66
    67%

    66His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

  • Isa 9:13
    67%

    13But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

  • 1 Chr 12:2
    67%

    2They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.

  • Judg 8:34
    67%

    34And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;

  • Acts 7:39
    67%

    39By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Zech 10:7
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    7And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.