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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.