Psalms 118:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

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  • Deut 1:44 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 17:45 : 45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
  • Ps 20:5 : 5 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God we will set up our banners: May Yahweh grant all your requests.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
  • Ps 83:14-15 : 14 As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire, 15 So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm.
  • Eccl 7:6 : 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
  • 2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they can't be taken with the hand
  • 1 Chr 14:10-11 : 10 David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand. 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
  • 1 Chr 14:14-16 : 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees. 15 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God is gone out before you to strike the host of the Philistines. 16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
  • 2 Chr 14:11-12 : 11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man prevail against you. 12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand. 8 Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.
  • 2 Chr 20:17-22 : 17 You shall not need to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed: tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you. 18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh. 19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice. 20 They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper. 21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who should sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever. 22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
  • 2 Chr 22:7-8 : 7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 8 It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them.
  • Ps 8:9 : 9 Yahweh, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth!
  • Ps 20:1 : 1 > May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

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