Jeremiah 47:6

God's Word

You cry out, “Sword of the Lord, how long will you keep on fighting? Go back into your scabbard. Stay there and rest!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Then Abner called to Joab, “Should this slaughter go on forever? Don’t you know this will end in bitterness? How long will it be before you will call off your troops from chasing their relatives?”

1 Chronicles 21:27

So the Lord spoke to the Messenger, and he put his sword back in its scabbard.

Psalm 17:13

Arise, O Lord; confront them! Bring them to their knees! With your sword rescue my life from wicked people.

Isaiah 10:15

Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.

Isaiah 10:5

“How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is the staff in the Assyrians’ hands.

Jeremiah 12:12

Looters swarm all over the bare hills in the desert. The Lord’s sword destroys them from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn? How long will the plants in every field remain dried up? The animals and the birds are dying, because people are wicked. They think that God  doesn’t know what they are doing.

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will devise four ways to punish them,” declares the Lord. “I will send swords to kill, dogs to drag away, and birds and animals to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 25:27

⌞The Lord said,⌟ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and don’t get up because of the wars that I’m going to send you.’

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle flag and hear the sound of rams’ horns?

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed are those who neglect doing the Lord’s work. Cursed are those who keep their swords from killing.

Jeremiah 50:35

“A sword will kill the Babylonians and everyone who lives in Babylon,” declares the Lord. “A sword will kill their officials and their wise men.

Ezekiel 14:17

“Suppose I bring a war against that country by saying, ‘I will let a war go throughout this country.’ Suppose I destroy the people and the animals in it.

Ezekiel 21:30

“ ‘Return your sword to its scabbard. In the place where you were created, in the land where you were born, there I will judge you.

Zechariah 13:7

“Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my friend,” declares the Lord of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. Then I will turn my hand against the little ones.”

John 18:11

Jesus told Peter, “Put your sword away. Shouldn’t I drink the cup ⌞of suffering⌟ that my Father has given me?”

Judges 7:20

The three companies also blew their rams’ horns and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the rams’ horns in their right hands so that they could blow them. They shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”