Jeremiah 46:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!”
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“Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Gird the horses, and go up, ye horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 46:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 17:5and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
- 1 Samuel 17:38Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
- Nehemiah 4:16And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah
- Isaiah 8:9Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Jeremiah 46:14“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’
- Jeremiah 51:3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- Ezekiel 21:28Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
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