Psalm 78:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:2

They were archers and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right hand or the left; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kindred.

Psalm 78:57

but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.

Luke 22:33

And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death!”

Judges 20:39

the main body of Israel should turn in battle. But Benjamin had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites, killing about thirty of them, so they thought, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

Judges 9:28

Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him?

1 Samuel 31:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and many fell on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 4:10

So the Philistines fought; Israel was defeated, and they fled, everyone to his home. There was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.