Reference: Sword
Easton
of the Hebrew was pointed, sometimes two-edged, was worn in a sheath, and suspended from the girdle (Ex 32:27; 1Sa 31:4; 1Ch 21:27; Ps 149:1; Pr 5:4; Eze 16:40; 21:3-5).
It is a symbol of divine chastisement (De 32:25; Ps 7:12; 78:62), and of a slanderous tongue (Ps 57:4; 64:3; Pr 12:18). The word of God is likened also to a sword (Heb 4:12; Eph 6:17; Re 1:16). Gideon's watchword was, "The sword of the Lord" (Jg 7:20).
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And he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, Put ye each his sword upon his thigh, and pass ye through and turn ye back from gate to gate in the camp, and slay ye each his brother, and each his friend, and each his near one.
The sword shall bereave without, And terror from the chambers, Also the youth, also the virgin, The suckling, with the man of gray hair.
And the three heads will strike upon the trumpets, and will break the buckets, and they will hold fast in their left hand upon the torches, and in their right hand the trumpets to strike: and they will call the sword for Jehovah and for Gideon.
If he shall not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he bent his bow and he will be prepared.
My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
And he will deliver his people to the sword, and he overflowed upon his inheritance.
Praise ye Jah. Sing to Jehovah a new song, his praise in the convocation of his godly ones.
And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
And they brought up a convocation against thee, and they stoned thee with stone, and they cut thee in pieces with their swords.
And say to the land of Israel, Thus said Jehovah: behold me against thee, and I brought forth my sword from its sheath, and I cut off from thee the just and the unjust Because that I cut off from thee the just and the unjust, for this my sword shall go forth from its sheath against all flesh, from south to north. read more. And all flesh knew that I Jehovah brought forth my sword from its sheath: it shall no more turn back
And take ye the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power.
Hastings
Morish
This is constantly referred to in scripture as the instrument of death, and is mentioned in the N.T. as being borne by the magistrate, Ro 13:4, showing that the gospel does not set aside God's governmental principle of capital punishment which was enjoined after the flood. Ge 9:5-6. See ARMOUR, ARMS.
SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. This is the word (????) of God, what His mouth has spoken, and is the only offensive weapon given to Christians with which to fight the Lord's battles. Eph 6:17. The word (?????) of God is likened to a two-edged sword, Heb 4:12, and the words of the Lord Jesus when He will come forth in judgement on Christendom and the world are compared to a "sharp two-edged sword." Re 1:16; 19:15.
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And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man. He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.
For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil.
And take ye the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power.
And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.
Smith
Sword.
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