Exodus 15:9
9The enemy said, a‘I will pursue, I will overtake,I bwill divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
Leviticus 26:25
25And cI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, dI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.Leviticus 26:33
33And eI will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.Deuteronomy 32:41-42
41if I fsharpen my flashing sword ▼▼Hebrew the lightning of my sword
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and hmy sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the ilong-haired heads of the enemy.’
Ezekiel 5:12
12 jA third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; ka third part shall fall by the sword all around you; land a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.Ezekiel 14:17
17“Or mif I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, nand I cut off from it man and beast,Ezekiel 14:21
21“For thus says the Lord God: How much more owhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, psword, qfamine, rwild beasts, and spestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!Ezekiel 21:9-11
9 t“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say:u“A sword, a sword is sharpened
and also polished,
10 vsharpened for slaughter,
wpolished to flash like lightning!
(Or xshall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, ywith everything of wood.) ▼
▼Probable reading; Hebrew The rod of my son despises everything of wood
11So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished aato be given into the hand of the slayer. Ezekiel 21:19
19“As for you, son of man, mark two ways for abthe sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make aca signpost; make it adat the head of the way to a city.
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