Jeremiah 47:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

Thou sword

How long

Jeremiah 12:4

2 Samuel 2:26

Into

1 Chronicles 21:27

Ezekiel 21:30

John 18:11

General references

Psalm 114:5

Bible References

Thou sword

Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness. For the sword of LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.

And I will appoint over them four kinds, says LORD: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war. And with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms,

if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

Arise, O LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword,

Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast,

And say to the land of Israel, Thus says LORD: Behold, I am against thee. And will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

How long

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? Know thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before thou bid the people return from following their brothers?

Into

And LORD commanded the agent, and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it.

Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou were created, in the land of thy birth, I will judge thee.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath. The cup that the Father has given me, shall I, no, not drink it?

General references

What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?