For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Cross References
Psalm 45:3Strap your sword at your side, O mighty warrior; appear in your majesty and splendor.
Jeremiah 51:20"You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Daniel 11:32With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.
Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
Joel 3:7Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
Treasury of Scripture
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
bent.
Zechariah 1:21
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
Zechariah 10:3-7
Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle…
Zechariah 12:2-8
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem…
and raised.
Psalm 49:2-9
Both low and high, rich and poor, together…
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Amos 2:11
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
against.
Daniel 8:21-25
And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king…
Daniel 11:32-34
And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits…
Joel 3:6-8
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border…
made.
Zechariah 12:8
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Psalm 18:32-35
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect…
Psalm 45:3
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
