Joel 3:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

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  • Isa 2:4 : 4 And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
  • Mic 4:3 : 3 And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations far off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
  • Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them in that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
  • Luke 22:36 : 36 Then he said to them, But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise his knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
  • 2 Chr 25:8 : 8 But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle; God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help, and to cast down.

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  • 9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

  • Joel 3:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

    11Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

    12Let the nations be stirred up, and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

    13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

  • 3And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations far off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

  • 4And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

  • Jer 46:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

    4Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the armor.

  • Nah 3:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • 20You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;

  • 1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • 15Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

  • 13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

  • 3Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

  • 4For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds;

  • Ezek 21:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished:

    10It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

  • 5And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • 16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • 9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

  • 15Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

  • 14How do you say, 'We are mighty and strong men for the war'?

  • 4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 13You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

  • 20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen each man's plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

  • 9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • 13For I have bent Judah for myself, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.

  • 9Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, O Philistines, that you do not become servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight.

  • 13You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • 25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • 23They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • 10Pass through, pass through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; remove the stones; lift up a banner for the people.

  • 4Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

  • 9Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.

  • 7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

  • 35He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

  • 5Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

  • 9Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, who handle the shield; and the Lydians, who handle and bend the bow.

  • 34He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is broken by my arms.

  • 8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

  • 1Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

  • 12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

  • 21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • 30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till everyone submits himself with pieces of silver: scatter those who delight in war.

  • 2The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the wise, and the elder,

  • 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

  • 10They shall not take wood out of the field, nor cut down any from the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall take spoil from those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.

  • 3Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, with your glory and your majesty.

  • 17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.