1 Samuel 2:4
1 Samuel chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Context
v.3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
v.4This passage
v.5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceasedto hunger: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
- Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
- Psalms 46:9
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.
- Psalms 76:3
There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah
- Jeremiah 37:10
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
- Isaiah 10:4
They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.