1 Samuel 2:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “Bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumble shall be girded with strength.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The bows of the mighty men are broken, And they that stumbled are girded with strength.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.

Common English Bible

⁴ The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who were stumbling now dress themselves in power!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The bow of the powerful has been overwhelmed, and the weak have been girded with strength.

1 Samuel 2:4 Cross References

Psalm 18:39

And You gird me with strength for battle; Cause my adversaries to bow under me.

Psalm 37:15

Their sword does enter into their own heart, And their bows are broken.

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wrongdoers are broken, But יהוה  sustains the righteous.

Psalm 46:10

Be still, and know that I am Elohim; I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth!

Psalm 46:9

Causing all fighting to cease, Unto the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the chariot with fire.

Psalm 76:3

There He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and the sword and the battle-axe. Selah.

Isaiah 10:4

“Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, and fall among the slain.” With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength.

Jeremiah 37:10

‘For though you had smitten the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would get up, each man in his tent, and burn the city with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 51:56

because the ravager shall come against her, against Baḇ

2 Corinthians 12:9

And He said to me, “My favour is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, then, I shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Messiah rests on me.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand, then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Philippians 4:13

I have strength to do all, through Messiah who empowers me.

Hebrews 11:32

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to relate of Gidʽ

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight.