Psalms 78:9

World English Bible (2000)

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 Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country. 42 Yahweh said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'" 43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. 44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
  • Josh 17:16-18 : 16 The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel." 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only; 18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."
  • Judg 9:28 : 28 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 Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?
  • Judg 9:38-40 : 38 Then Zebul said to him, "Now where is your mouth, that you said, 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Isn't this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them." 39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. 40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
  • Judg 20:39 : 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and 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 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
  • 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 slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 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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    57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • Ps 78:10
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    10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

  • Zech 9:13
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    13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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

    33 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

  • Judg 20:42
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    42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.

  • 2 Chr 28:12
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    12 Then some 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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    16 "But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,

    17 and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.

  • Judg 8:1
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    1 The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply.

  • Isa 21:15
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    15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9 "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
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    30 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.

  • Judg 12:4-5
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    4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh."

    5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;"

  • Hos 5:9
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    9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
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    6 So 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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    14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4 "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

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    9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was very distressed.

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

  • Exod 13:17
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    17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

  • Isa 31:6
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    6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • Isa 9:21
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    21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall 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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    13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

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

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

  • Hos 9:9
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    9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 2 Chr 13:14
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    14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

  • Jer 46:5
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    5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.

  • Ps 78:66
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    66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

  • Isa 9:13
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    13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

  • 1 Chr 12:2
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    2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.

  • Judg 8:34
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    34 The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Zech 10:7
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    7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.