Psalms 78:9
The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
In Context
10They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:41But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Judges 9:28And Gaal the son of Obed cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and hath made Zebul his servant ruler over the men of Emor the father of Sichem? Why then shall we serve him?
Judges 20:39And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle (for the children of Benjamin thought they fled and pursued them vigorously, killing thirty men of their army)
1 Samuel 31:1And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.
Psalms 78:57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9
The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →