'By the Sword' in the Bible

And lo! our fathers have fallen by the sword, and, our sons and our daughters and our wives, are in captivity for this.

So Yahweh sent a messenger, who cut off every hero of valour, and chief ruler and captain, in the camp of the king of Assyria, - and he returned with shame of face to his own land, and, when he entered the house of his god, then, the issue of his own body - there, caused him to fall by the sword.