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Ezekiel 21:3-5
and say to them,‘ This is what the LORD says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.Then everyone will know that I am the LORD, who drew my sword from its sheath– it will not be sheathed again!’
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Jeremiah 12:12
A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the LORD will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.
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Ezekiel 21:30
Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.
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John 18:11
But Jesus said to Peter,“ Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
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Jeremiah 25:27
Then the LORD said to me,“ Tell them that the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says,‘ Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
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Psalms 17:13
Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!
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Deuteronomy 32:41-42
I will sharpen my lightning- like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh– the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”
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Ezekiel 14:17
“ Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say,‘ Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.
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Jeremiah 51:20-23
“ Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”
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1 Chronicles 21 27
The LORD ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.
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Jeremiah 12:4
How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“ God will not see what happens to us.”
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2 Samuel 2 26
Then Abner called out to Joab,“ Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”
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Isaiah 10:5
Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
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Jeremiah 4:21
“ How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”
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Isaiah 10:15
Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
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Jeremiah 15:3
“ I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.