Psalms 78:9

In 11 translations

BSB

The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

KJV

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.carrying: Heb. throwing forth

WEB

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

ASV

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

LSV

Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, || Have turned in a day of conflict.

YLT

Sons of Ephraim — armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

DBY

The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

DRC77:9

The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

GNV

The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

JPS

The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.

LXXE77:9

The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.

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WLC

בְּֽנֵי־אֶפְרַ֗יִם נוֹשְׁקֵ֥י רוֹמֵי־קָ֑שֶׁת הָ֝פְכ֗וּ בְּי֣וֹם קְרָֽב׃

LXX-Br77:9

Υἱοὶ Ἐφραὶμ ἐντεινοντες καὶ βάλλοντες τόξον, ἐστράφησαν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμου.

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• 1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
• Deuteronomy 1:41–44“We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country. But the LORD…
• Psalms 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
• Joshua 17:16–18“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.” So Joshua said to the house of…
• Judges 9:28Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why…
• 1 Samuel 4:10So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
• Judges 20:39the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
• 1 Chronicles 12:2they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
• Judges 9:38–40“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!” So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem…
• Luke 22:33“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”

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