1 Kings 20:11

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

King Ahab answered, “Tell Ben-Hadad that the man who puts on his armor should not boast as much as the man who lives long enough to take it off.”

Cross References

Proverbs 27:1

Never brag about what you will do in the future; you have no idea what tomorrow will bring.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I also saw other things in this life that were not fair. The fastest runner does not always win the race; the strongest soldier does not always win the battle; wise people don’t always get the food; smart people don’t always get the wealth; educated people don’t always get the praise they deserve. When the time comes, bad things can happen to anyone!

Matthew 26:75

Then he remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you don’t know me.” Then Peter went outside and cried bitterly.

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to his young helper who carried his weapons, “Come on, let’s go to the camp of those foreigners. Maybe the Lord will use us to defeat them. Nothing can stop the Lord—it doesn’t matter if we have many soldiers or just a few soldiers.”

Jeremiah 9:23

This is what the Lord says: “The wise must not brag about their wisdom. The strong men must not brag about their strength. The rich must not brag about their money.

Jeremiah 46:17

In their homelands, those soldiers will say, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is only a lot of noise. His time of glory is over.’”

2 Kings 3:21

The Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So they gathered together all the men old enough to wear armor and waited at the border.

Job 41:8

“If you ever lay a hand on Leviathan, you will never do it again! Just think about the battle that would be!