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Ask a QuestionSo all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.
Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.
So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.
The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouthand from the hand of the mighty.
In famine he will redeem you from death,and in war from the power of the sword.
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,and he is marked for the sword.
be afraid of the sword,for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,that you may know there is a judgment."
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,and his descendants have not enough bread.
he keeps back his soul from the pit,his life from perishing by the sword.
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;he does not turn back from the sword.
"He is the first of the works of God;let him who made him bring near his sword!
Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.