Joel 3:10
pBeat your *plowshares into swords, and your 4pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
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Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:3 ¶And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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plowshares-cutting blades of a plough.
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Or, scythes.
here is a prediction of war, and such as should continue, with some intermissions, through many years; as, on the contrary, when swords were to be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruning-hooks, it was a prediction of peace, Isa 2:4: lay aside your husbandry in ploughing and sowing.
and let gardeners, vinedressers, and planters think of getting spears instead of pruning-hooks.
either of body, through sickness or natural weakness, or else weak of mind, fearful and cowardly, say,
put on strength and valour greater than he hath, let none be absent from this war.