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Psalm 76:3

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
2His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.
3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
5Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
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Broken arrows and shattered defenses make this a song of battlefield defeat, where God’s power exceeds the force that armed men can wield.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 46:9He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.Both passages describe God breaking weapons of war, with Psalm 46 extending the scene to wars ceasing across the earth.
1 Samuel 2:4“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.Broken bows mark the collapse of military strength in both passages; Hannah’s song also describes strength given to those who stumbled.
Ezekiel 39:3I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.Both passages portray God disabling an opponent’s weapons, naming the bow and arrows as objects under his power.
Jeremiah 51:56For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of retribution. He will …Broken bows accompany military defeat in both texts, and Jeremiah names God’s retribution as the reason Babylon’s warriors fall.
Isaiah 37:35–36‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”Both passages connect God’s power with a place: weapons break at his dwelling, and he promises to defend a city.
Ezekiel 39:9–10“‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the …Both passages name shields, bows, and arrows among weapons rendered useless for battle, broken in the psalm and burned in Ezekiel.
2 Chronicles 32:21The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of …Both accounts attribute military defeat to God; the psalm describes broken weapons, while Chronicles describes an angel cutting down Assyria’s warriors.
2 Chronicles 20:25When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies with precious jewels, which they …The shared thread appears in Psalm 76’s surrounding lines: defeated warriors and plunder also mark the battlefield where Jehoshaphat’s people gather spoils.
2 Chronicles 14:12–13So the LORD struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.Judah appears in both settings, and both passages credit God with the defeat of armed forces.
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Encouragement

The surrounding lines tell of warriors who have died; this victory carries that weight. The weapons that give armies their strength remain subject to God’s power.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).