1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:
Psalms 127:4
Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.
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1 Samuel 1:10
And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him.
1 Samuel 1:23
And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast.
1 Samuel 1:27
My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:
1 Samuel 2:19
And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.
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1 Samuel 2:11
Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.
1 Samuel 14:3
And Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, who had the ephod. And the people had no idea that Jonathan had gone.
1 Samuel 21:2
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.
1 Samuel 22:9
Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 22:20
And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;
1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.
Psalms 37:17
For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.
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1 Samuel 11:9
Then he said to the representatives who had come, Say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is high, you will be made safe. And the representatives came and gave the news to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
1 Samuel 31:11
And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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1 Samuel 14:11
And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover.
1 Samuel 14:12
And the armed men of the force gave Jonathan and his servant their answer, saying, Come up here to us, and we will let you see something. Then Jonathan said to his servant, Come up after me: for the Lord has given them up into the hands of Israel.
1 Samuel 17:44
And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.
1 Kings 20:18
And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.
2 Kings 14:8
Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.
2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
2 Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
2 Kings 14:12
And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
Zechariah 12:8
In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
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2 Samuel 10:7
And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.
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2 Kings 19:3
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
Isaiah 66:9
Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Hebrews 11:11
And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;
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Job 12:19
He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
Job 33:19
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
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Job 31:6
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Psalms 1:6
Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Psalms 7:12
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
Psalms 11:2
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.
Psalms 37:14
The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.
Psalms 64:3
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
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Job 34:24
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
Job 34:25
For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
Job 34:26
The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
Job 34:27
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
Job 34:28
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
Psalms 107:40
He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
Psalms 107:41
But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
Psalms 113:6
Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
Psalms 113:7
He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;
Psalms 113:8
To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.
Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
Amos 9:11
In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
Mark 6:3
Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
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Psalms 140:10
Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.
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Proverbs 12:25
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
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Job 5:14
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
Job 34:29
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Psalms 46:10
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Proverbs 21:31
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Ecclesiastes 9:11
And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
Lamentations 3:38
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
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Song of Solomon 1:3
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
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Ezekiel 39:3
And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.
Ezekiel 39:9
And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:
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2 Samuel 22:40
For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.
Psalms 18:29
By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.
Psalms 18:39
For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
Psalms 44:6
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.
Psalms 65:6
The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:
Psalms 93:1
The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
Isaiah 10:4
...For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
Jeremiah 37:10
For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
2 Corinthians 4:9
We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;
2 Corinthians 4:10
In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
Ephesians 6:14
Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;
Philippians 4:13
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
Hebrews 11:34
Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.
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Luke 1:51
With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.
Luke 1:53
Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
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