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 1:44The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
• 1 Sam 17:45Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• Ps 20:5We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
• Ps 20:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
• 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 heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
• Ps 8:9Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
• 2 Sam 23:6But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand,
• 1 Chr 14:10–11David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
• Isa 27:4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
• 1 Chr 14:14–16David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
• 2 Chr 20:17–22You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
• Ps 83:14–15As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
• 2 Chr 14:11–12Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
• 2 Chr 16:7–9At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
• 2 Chr 22:7–8Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.

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