Psalms 78:9
“The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell.”
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Psalms 78:9 Context
7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements, 8And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 9The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell. 10They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law: 11And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them.
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Other Translations for Psalms 78:9
The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- King James Version
The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, {Yet} they turned back in the day of battle.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
- American Standard Version (1901)
The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.
- Basic English Bible
The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
- Darby Bible
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- Webster's Bible
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- World English Bible
Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.
- Youngs Literal Bible
The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Psalms 78:9
78:9 Ephraim - That Ephraim is here put for all Israel seems evident from the following verses, wherein the sins, upon which this overthrow is charged, are manifestly the sins of all the children of Israel, and they who are here called Ephraim are called Jacob and Israel, ver.#21|, and this passage may refer to that dreadful overthrow related, #1Sam 4:10|,11, which is particularly named, because as the ark, so the flight was in that tribe. And the psalmist having related this amazing providence, falls into a large discourse of the causes of it, namely, the manifold sins of that and the former generations, which having prosecuted from hence to ver.#60|, he there returns to this history, and relates the sad consequence of that disaster, the captivity of the ark, and God's forsaking of Shiloh and Ephraim, and removing thence to the tribe of Judah and mount Zion. Bows - These are put for all arms.