Psalm 33:16

New American Bible - revised edition

A king is not saved by a great army, nor a warrior delivered by great strength.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:10

Ben-hadad then responded, “May the gods do thus to me and more, if there will remain enough dust in Samaria to make handfuls for all my followers.”

1 Kings 20:15

So Ahab mustered the aides of the provincial governors, two hundred thirty-two of them. Behind them he mustered all the Israelite soldiery, who numbered seven thousand in all.

2 Chronicles 13:8

But now, do you think you are a match for the kingdom of the Lord led by the descendants of David, simply because you are a huge multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods?

2 Chronicles 20:12

O our God, will you not bring judgment on them? We are powerless before this vast multitude that is coming against us. We ourselves do not know what to do, so our eyes are turned toward you.” Victory Prophesied.

2 Chronicles 20:23

For the Ammonites and Moabites set upon the inhabitants of Mount Seir and exterminated them according to the ban. And when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, each helped to destroy the other.

2 Chronicles 32:21

Then the Lord sent an angel, who destroyed every warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the Assyrian king, so that he had to return shamefaced to his own country. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down there with the sword.

Job 36:7

But he seats them upon thrones with kings, exalted forever.

Job 39:11

Will you depend on him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?

Psalm 20:8

Some rely on chariots, others on horses, but we on the name of the Lord our God.

Psalm 44:3

You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples and expelled them.

Exodus 14:28

As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the horsemen. Of all Pharaoh’s army which had followed the Israelites into the sea, not even one escaped.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of misfortune comes to all alike.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, “We are heroes, mighty warriors”?

Jeremiah 9:23

But rather, let those who boast, boast of this, that in their prudence they know me, Know that I, the Lord, act with fidelity, justice, and integrity on earth. How I take delight in these—oracle of the Lord. False Circumcision.

Hosea 10:13

But you have plowed wickedness, reaped perversity, and eaten the fruit of falsehood. Because you have trusted in your own power, and in your many warriors,

Amos 2:14

Flight shall elude the swift, and the strong shall not retain strength; The warrior shall not save his life,

Amos 2:15

nor shall the archer stand his ground; The swift of foot shall not escape, nor shall the horseman save his life.

Joshua 14:12

Now give me this mountain region which the Lord promised me that day, as you yourself heard. True, the Anakim are there, with large fortified cities, but if the Lord is with me I shall be able to dispossess them, as the Lord promised.”

Judges 7:2

The Lord said to Gideon: You have too many soldiers with you for me to deliver Midian into their power, lest Israel vaunt itself against me and say, “My own power saved me.”

Judges 7:4

The Lord said to Gideon: There are still too many soldiers. Lead them down to the water and I will test them for you there. If I tell you that a certain man is to go with you, he must go with you. But no one is to go if I tell you he must not.

1 Samuel 17:4

A champion named Goliath of Gath came out from the Philistine camp; he was six cubits and a span tall.

1 Samuel 2:9

He guards the footsteps of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall perish in the darkness; for not by strength does one prevail.