Psalms 118:12

Enemies swarmed like bees but were quenched like burning thorns; in the Lord's name he cut them off. It matters because hostile threats, however fierce, quickly fail before God.

Cross-references · 17

• Deut 1:44And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
• 1 Sam 17:45Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
• Ps 20:5We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
• Ps 20:1The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
• Eccl 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
• Ps 8:9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
• 2 Sam 23:6But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
• 1 Chr 14:10–11And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
• Isa 27:4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
• 1 Chr 14:14–16Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
• 2 Chr 20:17–22Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
• Nah 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Ps 83:14–15As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
• 2 Chr 14:11–12And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
• 2 Chr 16:7–9And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
• 2 Chr 22:7–8And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

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