Verse 8

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

Referenced Verses

• Ps 45:3 : 3 Gird 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 any hurt 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 drunken are drunken 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.