Zechariah 10:5

10:5 And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the Lord will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry. ¹ 

Zechariah 14:15

14:15 This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

Deuteronomy 28:28

28:28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. ² 

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ³  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 6:14

6:14 You must not go after other gods, those ⁴  of the surrounding peoples,

Deuteronomy 6:18

6:18 Do whatever is proper ⁵  and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he ⁶  promised your ancestors,

Psalms 76:5-7

76:5 The bravehearted ⁷  were plundered; ⁸ 

they “fell asleep.” ⁹ 

All the warriors were helpless. ¹⁰ 

76:6 At the sound of your battle cry, ¹¹  O God of Jacob,

both rider ¹²  and horse “fell asleep.” ¹³ 

76:7 You are awesome! Yes, you!

Who can withstand your intense anger? ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 38:4

38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, ¹⁵  all of them armed with swords.

Ezekiel 39:20

39:20 You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, ¹⁶  with warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ tn Heb “and the riders on horses will be put to shame,” figurative for the defeat of mounted troops. The word “enemy” in the translation is supplied from context.

² tn Heb “heart” (so KJV, NASB).

³ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

⁴ tn Heb “from the gods.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁵ tn Heb “upright.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

⁷ tn Heb “strong of heart.” In Isa 46:12, the only other text where this phrase appears, it refers to those who are stubborn, but here it seems to describe brave warriors (see the next line).

⁸ tn The verb is a rare Aramaized form of the Hitpolel (see GKC 149 §54.a, n. 2); the root is שָׁלַל (shalal, “to plunder”).

⁹ tn Heb “they slept [in] their sleep.” “Sleep” here refers to the “sleep” of death. A number of modern translations take the phrase to refer to something less than death, however: NASB “cast into a deep sleep”; NEB “fall senseless”; NIV “lie still”; NRSV “lay stunned.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and all the men of strength did not find their hands.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from your shout.” The noun is derived from the Hebrew verb גָּעַר (ga’ar), which is often understood to mean “rebuke.” In some cases it is apparent that scolding or threatening is in view (see Gen 37:10; Ruth 2:16; Zech 3:2). However, in militaristic contexts this translation is inadequate, for the verb refers in this setting to the warrior’s battle cry, which terrifies and paralyzes the enemy. See A. Caquot, TDOT 3:53, and note the use of the verb in Pss 68:30; 106:9; Nah 1:4, as well as the related noun in Job 26:11; Pss 9:5; 18:15; 104:7; Isa 50:2; 51:20; 66:15.

¹² tn Or “chariot,” but even so the term is metonymic for the charioteer.

¹³ tn Heb “he fell asleep, and [the] chariot and [the] horse.” Once again (see v. 5) “sleep” refers here to the “sleep” of death.

¹⁴ tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (me’az, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (me’oz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).

¹⁵ sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.

¹⁶ tn Heb “chariots.”