Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Armies » Marched » With rapidity
And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
Armies » Called the » Wings of a nation
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
Eagle » Figurative
As the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
Ye have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and how I have borne you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He cometh as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;