Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

The stroke

Bible References

Smote

Psalm 18:34

He trains my hands for war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Psalm 20:7

Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
But we will remember and trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 149:6

Let the high praises of God be in their throats,
And a two-edged sword in their hands,
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For after all it is only just for God to repay with distress those who distress you,

The stroke

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, give their children over to the famine;
Give them over to the power of the sword.
And let their wives become childless and widowed;
Let their men meet death [by virulent disease],
Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle.