55 Bible Verses about Shields

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2 Chronicles 11:11-12

And he will strengthen the fortifications, and he will give in them leaders and treasures of food, and oil, and wine. And in every city and city, shields and spears, and he will strengthen them very greatly, and there will be to him Judah and Benjamin.

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he will strengthen himself and build all the wall broken down, and he will go up upon the towers, and to without another wall, and he will strengthen the filling up of the city of David, and he will make darts for abundance, and shields.

Nehemiah 4:16

And it will be from that day the half of my young men doing in the work, and half of them holding fast and the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the chiefs behind every house of Judah.

Nahum 2:5

He shall make mention of his chiefs: they shall be weak in their goings; they shall hasten to her wall, and the covering was prepared.

Jeremiah 46:3

Prepare the covering and the shield, and approach to the war.

1 Kings 10:16-17

And king Solomon will make two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred of gold will come up upon the one shield. And three hundred shields of beaten gold; three parts of gold will come up upon the one shield: and the king will give them to the house of the forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 9:15-16

And king Solomon will make two hundred shields of beaten gold: six hundred of beaten gold he will bring up upon one shield. And three hundred shields of beaten sold: three hundred of gold he will bring up upon one shield. And the king will give them into the house of the forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 14:8

And there will be to Asa an army lifting up the shield and spear, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and from Benjamin lifting up the shield and bending the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these strong of power.

2 Samuel 8:7

And David will take the shields of gold which were upon the servants of Hadadezer, and he will bring them to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 18:7

And David will take the shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadarezer, and he will bring them to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:26

And he will take the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king's house; and he took all: and he took all the shields of gold. which Solomon made.

1 Kings 14:27

And king Rehoboam will make in their stead shields of brass, and appointed upon the hand of the chief of the runners watching the door of the house of the king.

Ezekiel 39:9

And they dwelling in the cities of Israel went forth and kindled and set on fire with the weapons and the shield and the buckler, with the bow and with the arrows, and with the rods of the hand and with the spear, and they burnt a fire with them seven years:

Isaiah 21:5

Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield.

1 Chronicles 12:23-24

And these the numbers of heads drawn out for the army, they came to David to Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the mouth of Jehovah. The sons of Judah lifting up the shield and spear six thousand and eight hundred drawn out for the army.

2 Chronicles 11:12

And in every city and city, shields and spears, and he will strengthen them very greatly, and there will be to him Judah and Benjamin.

2 Chronicles 26:14

And Uzziah will prepare for them for all the army shields and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and for stones of slings.

1 Chronicles 5:18

The sons of Reuben and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh from the sons of strength, men lifting up shield and sword, and bending the bow, and accustomed to war; forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty going forth to war.

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

2 Kings 19:32

Therefore, thus said Jehovah to the king of Assur, He shall not come into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and a shield shall not come before it, and he shall not cast a mound against it

Jeremiah 51:11

Polish the arrows; fill the quivers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of the kings of the Males: for his purpose is against Babel, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

Ezekiel 23:24

And they came against thee firm with chariot and wheel, and with a convocation of peoples, shield and buckler and helmet, they will set against thee round about: and I gave judgment before them, and they judged thee with their judgments.

2 Samuel 22:3

The God of my rock; I will trust in him: My shield and the horn of my salvation, my height and my refuge; My saviour; thou wilt save me from violence.

Exodus 14:19-20

And the messenger of God going before the camp of Israel will remove, and will go from behind them; and the pillar of the cloud will remove from before them, and will stand from behind them, And it will come between the camp of Egypt and between the camp of Israel; and it will be the cloud, and the darkness, and it will make the night light: and this drew not near to this all the night

Isaiah 52:12

For ye shall not come forth with haste, and in flight ye shall not go; for Jehovah goes before you, and he gathering you the God of Israel.

Isaiah 31:5

Its birds flying, so will Jehovah of armies cover over Jerusalem, covering and he delivered; and passing over he saved.

Psalm 12:7

Thou, O Jehovah, shalt watch them, keep from this generation forever.

Psalm 125:2

Jerusalem, the mountains are round about to her; and Jehovah is round about to his people from now and even to forever.

Psalm 140:7

O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.

Zechariah 12:8

In that day Jehovah shall protect about the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he being weak among them in that day was as David; and the house of David as God, as the messenger of Jehovah before them.

Psalm 144:2

My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy, thou, Israel: who like thee, a people saved by Jehovah, the shield of thy help, and who the sword of thy lifting up and thine enemies will lie to thee, and thou wilt tread upon their heights.

Psalm 115:9-11

O Israel, trust in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: he their help and their shield. Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: he their help and their shield.

2 Samuel 22:36

And thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thine answer will multiply me.

Psalm 18:35

Thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand will uphold me, and thy clemency will enlarge me.

Psalm 84:9-11

See, O God our shield, and behold the face of thy Messiah. For good a day in thine enclosures above a thousand. I chose to wait on the threshold in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of injustice. For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Job 15:25-26

For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty. He will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields:

Psalm 47:9

The nobles of the peoples were gathered together, the people of the God. of Abraham: for to God the shields of the earth: he was lifted up greatly.

From Thematic Bible


Brass » Made into » Shields

2 Chronicles 12:10

And king Rehoboam will make instead of them, shields of brass, and he deposited upon the hand of the chiefs of the runners, those watching the entrance of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:27

And king Rehoboam will make in their stead shields of brass, and appointed upon the hand of the chief of the runners watching the door of the house of the king.

Gold » Was used for » Shields

2 Samuel 8:7

And David will take the shields of gold which were upon the servants of Hadadezer, and he will bring them to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 10:16-17

And king Solomon will make two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred of gold will come up upon the one shield. And three hundred shields of beaten gold; three parts of gold will come up upon the one shield: and the king will give them to the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Shields » Many of the israelites used, with expertness

1 Chronicles 12:8

And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste;

2 Chronicles 14:8

And there will be to Asa an army lifting up the shield and spear, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and from Benjamin lifting up the shield and bending the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these strong of power.

2 Chronicles 25:5

And Amaziah will gather Judah together, and set them up for the house of the fathers for chiefs of thousands, and for chiefs of hundreds, to all Judah and Benjamin: and he will review them from the son of twenty years and above, and he will find them three hundred thousand chosen going forth to war, holding spear and shield.

1 Chronicles 12:34

And from Naphtali a thousand chiefs, and with them with shield and spear, thirty and seven thousand.

1 Chronicles 12:24

The sons of Judah lifting up the shield and spear six thousand and eight hundred drawn out for the army.

Shields » Provided by the kings of israel in great abundance

2 Chronicles 26:14

And Uzziah will prepare for them for all the army shields and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and for stones of slings.

2 Chronicles 11:12

And in every city and city, shields and spears, and he will strengthen them very greatly, and there will be to him Judah and Benjamin.

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he will strengthen himself and build all the wall broken down, and he will go up upon the towers, and to without another wall, and he will strengthen the filling up of the city of David, and he will make darts for abundance, and shields.

Shields » Kinds of » The buckler or target

1 Chronicles 5:18

The sons of Reuben and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh from the sons of strength, men lifting up shield and sword, and bending the bow, and accustomed to war; forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty going forth to war.

Ezekiel 26:8

Thy daughters in the field he shall slay with the sword: and he gave a watch-tower against thee, and he threw up a mound against thee, and lifted up the buckler against thee.

2 Chronicles 9:15

And king Solomon will make two hundred shields of beaten gold: six hundred of beaten gold he will bring up upon one shield.

Shields » In times of peace were hung up in towers of armories

Song of Songs 4:4

As the tower of David thy neck, built for the weapons; a thousand shields hung upon it, all shields of the powerful.

Ezekiel 27:10

Persia and Lud and Phut were in thy strength, thy men of war: hung the shield and helmet in thee; they gave thy decoration.

Shields » Frequently made of, or covered with » Gold

1 Kings 10:17

And three hundred shields of beaten gold; three parts of gold will come up upon the one shield: and the king will give them to the house of the forest of Lebanon.

2 Samuel 8:7

And David will take the shields of gold which were upon the servants of Hadadezer, and he will bring them to Jerusalem.

Shields » Illustrative of » Salvation of God

Psalm 18:35

Thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand will uphold me, and thy clemency will enlarge me.

2 Samuel 22:36

And thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thine answer will multiply me.

Shields » Before war » Anointed

Isaiah 21:5

Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield.

2 Samuel 1:21

Mountains of Gilboa, no dew and no rain upon you, and fields of offerings: for there the shield of the powerful was cast away--the shield of Saul as not anointed with oil.

Shields » Illustrative of » Protection of God

Shields » A part of defensive armor

Psalm 115:9

O Israel, trust in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield.

Psalm 140:7

O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.

Shields » Kinds of » The small shield

2 Chronicles 9:16

And three hundred shields of beaten sold: three hundred of gold he will bring up upon one shield. And the king will give them into the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Shields » Illustrative of » Faith

Shields » Before war » Gathered together

Jeremiah 51:11

Polish the arrows; fill the quivers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of the kings of the Males: for his purpose is against Babel, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

Shields » Frequently made of, or covered with » Brass

1 Kings 14:27

And king Rehoboam will make in their stead shields of brass, and appointed upon the hand of the chief of the runners watching the door of the house of the king.

Shields » Before war » Repaired

Jeremiah 46:3

Prepare the covering and the shield, and approach to the war.

Shields » A disgrace to lose, or throw away

2 Samuel 1:21

Mountains of Gilboa, no dew and no rain upon you, and fields of offerings: for there the shield of the powerful was cast away--the shield of Saul as not anointed with oil.

Shields » Often borne by an armor-bearer

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

Shields » Of the vanquished, often burned

Ezekiel 39:9

And they dwelling in the cities of Israel went forth and kindled and set on fire with the weapons and the shield and the buckler, with the bow and with the arrows, and with the rods of the hand and with the spear, and they burnt a fire with them seven years:

Shields » Before war » Uncovered

Isaiah 22:6

And Elam lifted up the quiver with the chariot of men, horsemen; and Kir made naked the shield.

Shields » Illustrative of » Truth of God

Shields » Illustrative of » Favor of God

Shields » Were scarce in israel in the days of deborah and barak

Judges 5:8

He will choose new gods; Then war in the gates: If a shield was seen, and a lance, Among forty thousand in Israel

Shields » Said to belong to God

Psalm 47:9

The nobles of the peoples were gathered together, the people of the God. of Abraham: for to God the shields of the earth: he was lifted up greatly.

Shields » Before war » Often made red

Nahum 2:3

The shield of the strong ones being red, the men of strength being clothed in scarlet: with fire of irons the chariots in the day of his preparing, and the cypresses were made to tremble.

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