Psalms 76:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

Psalms 76:3 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 46:9
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Ezekiel 39:3-4
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. …
Ezekiel 39:9-10
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: …
Isaiah 37:35-36
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. …
2 Chronicles 14:12-13
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The church is here triumphant even in the midst of its militant state. The psalmist, in the church’s name, triumphs here in God, the centre of all our triumphs. I. In the revelation God had made of himself to them, Ps. 76:1. It is the honour and privilege of Judah and Israel that among them God is known, and where he is known his name will be great. God is known as he is pleased to make himself kn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. brake ... the arrows--literally, “thunderbolts” (Psa 78:48), from their rapid flight or ignition (compare Psa 18:14; Ep 6:16). the battle--for arms (Ho 2:18).