sword

Scripture references

• Genesis 34:25

  Now on the third day, when the men were still in pain, Jacob's two sons Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and advanced unopposed against the town and slaughtered all the males.

• Genesis 34:26

  They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, removed Dinah from Shechem's house and came away.

• Genesis 48:22

  As for me, I give you a Shechem more than your brothers, the one I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.'

• Exodus 5:3

  'The God of the Hebrews has encountered us,' they replied. 'Give us leave to make a three -days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or he will strike us with a plague or with the sword.'

• Exodus 5:21

  'May Yahweh look down at you and judge!' they said to them. 'You have brought us into bad odour with Pharaoh and his officials; you have put a sword into their hand to kill us.'

• Exodus 17:13

  and Joshua defeated Amalek, putting their people to the sword.

• Exodus 18:4

  and the other called Eliezer because 'My father's God is my help and has delivered me from Pharaoh's sword.'

• Exodus 22:23

  my anger will be roused and I shall put you to the sword; then your own wives will be widows and your own children orphans.

• Exodus 32:27

  He said to them, 'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, "Buckle on your sword, each of you, and go up and down the camp from gate to gate, every man of you slaughtering brother, friend and neighbour." '