Quotes about Sword
then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
— Jeremiah 42:16
Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
— Numbers 31:8
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
— Ezekiel 14:21
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
— 1 Samuel 15:8
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
— Leviticus 26:25
And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
— Ezekiel 12:14
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
— Jeremiah 16:4
The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
— Exodus 15:9
The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.
— Joshua 13:22
Each must watch over his own conscience, and therefore each must have the right to judge spirits and prophets; but no one has the right to take the sword for himself.
— Martin Luther
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.
— Exodus 17:13
At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
— Joshua 11:10