Song of Songs 3:8

World English Bible (2000)

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:3 : 3 Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.
  • Ps 91:5 : 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;
  • Ps 149:5-9 : 5 Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds. 6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
  • Isa 27:3 : 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
  • Eph 6:16-18 : 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • Neh 4:21-22 : 21 So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. 22 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day."

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  • Song 3:7
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    7 Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

  • Ps 45:3
    72%

    3 Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    71%

    13 David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • Joel 2:7-8
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    7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.

    8 Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.

  • Nah 3:3
    71%

    3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

  • Isa 13:15
    71%

    15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

  • Isa 21:15
    70%

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

  • Jer 6:23
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    23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

    10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

  • Isa 3:2
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    2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

  • Deut 32:25
    69%

    25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

  • Jer 6:25
    69%

    25 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 11:8
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    8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in."

  • Neh 4:17-18
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    69%

    17 They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;

    18 and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

  • Nah 2:3
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    3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

  • Jer 50:36-37
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    69%

    36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

    37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

  • Ezek 21:11
    69%

    11 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

  • Job 41:26
    69%

    26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

  • Isa 3:25
    69%

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

  • Neh 4:22
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    22 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day."

  • Job 39:23
    68%

    23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

  • Exod 32:27
    68%

    27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

  • Ezek 11:8
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    8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

  • Ezek 32:20
    68%

    20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

  • Ezek 21:9
    68%

    9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

  • Ps 59:7
    68%

    7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Jer 46:4
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    4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

  • Nah 2:5
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    5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • Ps 149:6
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    6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

  • Job 19:29
    67%

    29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

  • Jer 50:42
    67%

    42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

  • Lev 26:7
    67%

    7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Judg 20:17
    67%

    17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • 2 Sam 17:10
    67%

    10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

  • 1 Chr 12:24
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    24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

  • Luke 22:36
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    36 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

  • Ezek 32:10
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    10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

  • Ps 27:3
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    3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

  • 1 Sam 21:8
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    8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

  • Ezek 7:15
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    15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • 1 Sam 13:21
    67%

    21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • Isa 5:28
    67%

    28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.