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Psalms 78:9

Psalms chapter 78 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

Context

v.8And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

v.9This passage

v.10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 9:28

    And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?

  • Deuteronomy 1:41

    Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:2

    They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.

  • Joshua 17:16

    And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.

  • 1 Samuel 4:10

    And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

  • Psalms 78:57

    But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.