1 Samuel 17:47

New American Bible - revised edition

All this multitude, too, shall learn that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves. For the battle belongs to the Lord, who shall deliver you into our hands.”

Cross References

2 Kings 5:15

He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Chronicles 14:11

And so the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

Psalm 46:11

“Be still and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”

Isaiah 9:7

The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it falls upon Israel;

Hosea 1:7

Yet for the house of Judah I will feel pity; I will save them by the Lord, their God; but I will not save them by bow or sword, by warfare, by horses or horsemen.

Zechariah 4:6

Then he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us.

Joshua 10:8

The Lord said to Joshua: Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your power. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to his armor-bearer: “Come, let us go over to that outpost of the uncircumcised. Perhaps the Lord will help us, because it is no more difficult for the Lord to grant victory by means of a few than it is by means of many.”

1 Samuel 18:17

Saul said to David, “Look, I will give you my older daughter, Merob, in marriage if you become my warrior and fight the battles of the Lord.” Saul thought, “I will not lay a hand on him. Let the hand of the Philistines strike him.”