Thematic Bible: Before war


Thematic Bible



Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.


Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.


Order 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 shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.


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