Jeremiah 47:6

New Century Version

“You cry, ‘Sword of the Lord, how long will you keep fighting? Return to your holder. Stop and be still.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Abner shouted to Joab, “Must the sword kill forever? Surely you must know this will only end in sadness! Tell the people to stop chasing their own brothers!”

1 Chronicles 21:27

Then the Lord commanded the angel to put his sword back into its holder.

Psalm 17:13

Lord, rise up, face the enemy, and throw them down. Save me from the wicked with your sword.

Isaiah 10:15

An ax is not better than the person who swings it. A saw is not better than the one who uses it. A stick cannot control the person who picks it up. A club cannot pick up the person!

Isaiah 10:5

God says, “How terrible it will be for the king of Assyria. I use him like a rod to show my anger; in anger I use Assyria like a club.

Jeremiah 12:12

Many soldiers have marched over those barren hills. The Lord is using the armies to punish that land from one end to the other. No one is safe.

Jeremiah 12:4

How much longer will the land stay dried up and the grass in every field be dead? The animals and birds in the land have died, because the people are evil. Yes, they are even saying, “God does not see what happens to us.”

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send war to kill, dogs to drag the bodies away, and the birds of the air and wild animals to eat and destroy the bodies.

Jeremiah 25:27

“Then say to them, ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit. Fall down and don’t get up because of the war I am sending among you!’

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I look at the war flag? How long must I listen to the war trumpet?

Jeremiah 48:10

A curse will be on anyone who doesn’t do what the Lord says, and a curse will be on anyone who holds back his sword from killing.

Jeremiah 50:35

The Lord says, “Let a sword kill the people living in Babylon and her officers and wise men!

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or I might bring a war against that country. I might say, ‘Let a war be fought in that land,’ in this way destroying its people and its animals.

Ezekiel 21:30

Put the sword back in its holder. I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born.

Zechariah 13:7

“Sword, hit the shepherd. Attack the man who is my friend,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter, and I will punish the little ones.”

John 18:11

Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back. Shouldn’t I drink the cup the Father gave me?”

Judges 7:20

All three groups of Gideon’s men blew their trumpets and smashed their jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands. Then they shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”