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Bible in Basic English
A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.
New American Standard Bible
A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
King James Version
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Holman Bible
a warrior will not be delivered by great strength.
International Standard Version
A king is not saved by a large army; a mighty soldier is not delivered by his great strength.
A Conservative Version
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
American Standard Version
There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Amplified
The king is not saved by the great size of his army;
A warrior is not rescued by his great strength.
Darby Translation
The king is not saved by the multitude of his forces; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Julia Smith Translation
The king was not saved by much strength: the strong one will not be delivered by much power.
King James 2000
There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The king [is] not saved by [the] greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by [the] greatness of strength.
Modern King James verseion
The king is not saved by a great army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of a host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.
NET Bible
No king is delivered by his vast army; a warrior is not saved by his great might.
New Heart English Bible
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
The Emphasized Bible
Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength:
Webster
There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
World English Bible
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Youngs Literal Translation
The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 33:16
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Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Character And Creation
15 He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him. 16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength. 17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.
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Exodus 14:17-18
And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.
Exodus 14:28
And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
Joshua 11:4-8
And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.
Joshua 14:12
So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.
Judges 7:2
And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.
Judges 7:12-25
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
1 Samuel 14:8-16
Then Jonathan said, Now we will go over to these men and let them see us.
1 Samuel 17:4
And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
1 Samuel 17:45-49
Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.
2 Samuel 21:16-22
And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.
1 Kings 20:10
Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.
1 Kings 20:27-29
And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.
2 Chronicles 14:9-13
And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.
2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.
2 Chronicles 20:23
And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.
2 Chronicles 32:8-9
With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.
Psalm 44:3
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
Psalm 44:6-7
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth: