Sword, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Joshua 6:21 OT

  They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

• Acts 12:2 NT

  He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

• 1 Samuel 31:4 OT

  Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword,…

• 1 Samuel 31:5 OT

  When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

• Acts 16:27 NT

  The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• 1 Samuel 13:19 OT

  Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;

• Joel 3:10 OT

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

• Isaiah 2:4 OT

  He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any…

• Micah 4:3 OT

  and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they…

• Psalms 7:12 OT

  If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

• Ezekiel 21:9 OT

  “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.

• Ezekiel 32:10 OT

  Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.”

• Ezekiel 16:40 OT

  They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

• Leviticus 26:25 OT

  I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

• Leviticus 26:33 OT

  I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

• Deuteronomy 32:25 OT

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

• Ezra 9:7 OT

  Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to…

• Psalms 78:62 OT

  He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

• Ezekiel 14:21 OT

  For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

• Numbers 19:16 OT

  “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

• Ephesians 6:17 NT

  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

• Hebrews 4:12 NT

  For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

• Isaiah 49:2 OT

  He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

• Revelation 1:16 NT

  He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.