Bible Verses About The Sword
Key Bible Verses
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
¶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
¶ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.