As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.

For they flee from the swords – from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

He will come and attack Egypt. Those who are destined to die of disease will die of disease. Those who are destined to be carried off into exile will be carried off into exile. Those who are destined to die in war will die in war.

Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder!

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.

The Lord ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.

It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

Deliver me from the sword! Save my life from the claws of the wild dogs!

For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.

Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! Appear in your majestic splendor!

Each one will be handed over to the sword; their corpses will be eaten by jackals.

You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.

Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.