Song of Solomon 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

all equipped with swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh because of alarms by night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They all hold swords, Being expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh Because of fear in the night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They all handle the sword and are expert in war; every man has his sword upon his thigh, that fear be not excited in the night.

American Standard Version (1901)

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the night.

Common English Bible

all of them skilled with the sword, expert in warfare, each with his sword ready at his thigh against terrors that come by night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one's weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

Song of Solomon 3:8 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:16

From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and body-armor, and the leaders posted themselves behind the whole house of Judah

Nehemiah 4:17

who were building the wall. The burden bearers carried their loads in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon.

Psalm 45:3

Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.

Psalm 91:5

You will not fear the terror of the night or the arrow that flies by day

Song of Solomon 3:7

Look, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,

Song of Solomon 3:9

King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.

Isaiah 27:3

I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. I guard it night and day so that no one can harm it;

Jeremiah 50:9

For I am going to stir up and bring against Babylon a company of great nations from the land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he fastened it on his right thigh under his clothes.