Psalms 78:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

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  • Deut 1:41-44 : 41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the LORD said to me, Tell them, Do not go up or fight, because I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies. 43 So I spoke to you; and you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the hill. 44 And the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, as far as Hormah.
  • Josh 17:16-18 : 16 The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have iron chariots, both those who are of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel." 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people and have great power; you shall not have only one lot. 18 The mountain shall be yours; though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and its furthest parts shall be yours. You shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and are strong.
  • Judg 9:28 : 28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? And isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem! Why should we serve him?
  • Judg 9:38-40 : 38 Then Zebul said to him, Where is your mouth now, with which you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Are not these the people you despised? Go out now, I pray, and fight with them. 39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem and fought with Abimelech. 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
  • Judg 20:39 : 39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
  • 1 Sam 4:10 : 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled every man to his tent, and there was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
  • 1 Sam 31:1 : 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
  • 1 Chr 12:2 : 2 They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows from a bow; they were Saul's brethren from Benjamin.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you, both to prison and to death.

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  • Ps 78:57
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    57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • Ps 78:10
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    10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

  • Ps 21:12
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    12Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.

  • Zech 9:13
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    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.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their ridicule in the land of Egypt.

  • Num 1:32-33
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    32From the children of Joseph, namely, from the children of Ephraim, by their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war;

    33Those who were numbered from them, even from the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

  • Judg 20:42
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    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

  • 2 Chr 28:12
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    12Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war,

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

    17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

  • Judg 8:1
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    1And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you treated us this way, that you did not call us when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they argued with him sharply.

  • Isa 21:15
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    15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
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    30Of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous throughout their father's house.

  • Judg 12:4-5
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    4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

    5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it happened, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No;

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10And the pride of Israel bears witness to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
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    6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim;

  • Hos 12:14
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    14Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly; therefore He will leave his blood upon him, and his Lord shall repay his reproach to him.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • Judg 10:9
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    9Moreover, the children of Ammon crossed over Jordan to fight against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Exod 13:17
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    17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest perhaps the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

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    6Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • Isa 9:21
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    21Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Hos 9:13
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    13Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

  • 2 Chr 25:10
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    10Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again; and their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

  • Num 10:22
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    22And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22All the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the mountains of Ephraim heard that the Philistines fled, and even they followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 2 Chr 13:14
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    14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was in front and behind: and they cried to the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

  • Jer 46:5
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    5Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Ps 78:66
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    66And he struck his enemies in the rear: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

  • Isa 9:13
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    13For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

  • 1 Chr 12:2
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    2They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows from a bow; they were Saul's brethren from Benjamin.

  • Judg 8:34
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    34And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

  • Acts 7:39
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • Zech 10:7
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    7And those of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as with wine. Yes, their children shall see it and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.