Thematic Bible: Before war


Thematic Bible



They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.


Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.


Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.


And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.


The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress'spears are brandished.


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