1 Samuel 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

Cross References

Psalm 18:39

For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

Psalm 46:10

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

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

Psalm 76:3

There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

Isaiah 10:4

so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.

Jeremiah 37:10

Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.

Jeremiah 51:56

for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will repay in full.

2 Corinthians 12:9

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Hebrews 11:32

And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—

Hebrews 11:34

quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.