“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
Parallel translations
- WEB “It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses out from among you, and will destroy your chariots.
- KJV And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
- NKJV “And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord, “That I will cut off your horses from your midst And destroy your chariots.
- NASB ¶“And it will be on that day,” declares the Lord, “That I will eliminate your horses from among you, And destroy your chariots.
- NLT “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will slaughter your horses and destroy your chariots.
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Quick answer
In that day God will remove the horses and chariots His people relied on. It begins a promise to purge false sources of trust.
Overview
God pledges to strip away the military strength in which Israel had wrongly trusted instead of trusting Him. Removing horses and chariots forces His people to depend on Him alone for security. This purifying judgment prepares a people who rely on the LORD rather than on their own power.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Zech 9:10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Hos 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Ps 33:16–17No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Ps 20:7–8Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Hos 1:7Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
- Isa 2:7Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
- Jer 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
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