Psalms Chapter 76 verse 3 Holy Bible
There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah
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There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)
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There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword and battle. Selah.
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There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
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There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, The shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
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There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - There brake he the arrows of the bow. The expression "there" seems certainly to show that the deliverance celebrated took place at, or very near to, Jerusalem. This would sufficiently suit the destruction of Sennacherib's army, which certainly occurred in the neighbourhood, though not very close to the city (see 2 Kings 19:32, 38). The word translated "arrows" (רשׁפי) means properly "lightnings" (comp. Psalm 78:48), and expresses the swift flight of the arrow, not actual "fiery darts." The shield, and the sword, and the battle; rather, the war equipment (Kay, Cheyne).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) There.--This word in Psalm 14:5 does not appear to have a strictly definite local sense; and here may refer to time, possibly to some event, which we are not able with certainty to recover.Arrows.--Literally, flashes. (See Note, Song of Solomon 8:6.) The image may be derived from the lightning speed of the flight of arrows, or from the custom of shooting bolts tipped with flame (see Note, Psalm 7:13), or the connection may be from the metaphor in Psalm 91:5-6, since the Hebrew word here used denotes pestilence in Habakkuk 3:5. . . .
