When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Psalm 37:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The swords [of the wicked] shall enter their own hearts, and their bows shall be broken. American Standard Version (1901) Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken. Common English Bible But the sword of the wicked will enter their own hearts! Their bows will be broken! Catholic Public Domain Version And I became like a man who does not hear, and who has no reproofs in his mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs in his mouth. |
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Now the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives and gained relief from their enemies and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Let ruin come on them unawares, and let the net that they hid ensnare them; let them fall in it—to their ruin.
“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations; I am exalted in the earth.”
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.
for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken, for the Lord is a God of recompense; he will repay in full.
I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground, and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
They shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; they shall rescue us from the Assyrians if they come into our land or tread within our border.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.