2 Kings 6:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He answered, “No! Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and let them go to their master.”

Cross References

Genesis 48:22

I now give to you one portion more than to your brothers, the portion that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

Psalm 44:6

For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

Hosea 1:7

But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”

Hosea 2:18

I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground, and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

Matthew 5:44

But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Joshua 24:12

I sent swarms of hornets ahead of you that drove out before you the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.