Hebrews 11:34 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.

KJV

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

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Commentary

1 voice

Oecumenius

The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews (550)

"quenched the power of fire." The three boys, Ananias, Azarias, and Misael. "escaped the edge of the sword," For example, Elijah, from Jezebel, and David himself, from Saul. "were made strong out of weakness." And he speaks of those who returned from Babylonian captivity, and …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Quenched the violence of fire - As in the case of the three faithful Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who, for their steady attachment to God’s worship, were cast into a fiery furnace, in which they were preserved, and from which they escaped unhurt. Dan. 3. Escaped the edge of the sword - Moses, who escaped the sword of Pharaoh, Exo 18:4; Elijah, that of Jezebel; and David, that of Saul: and many others. Out of weakness were made strong - Were miraculously restored from sickness, which seemed to threaten their life; as Hezekiah, Isa 38:

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Quenched the violence of fire-- (Da 3:27). Not merely "quenched the fire," but "quenched the power (so the Greek) of the fire." Da 3:19-30 and 6:12-23 record the last miracles of the Old Testament.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔσβεσαν	esbesan	quenched	G4570 →
δύναμιν	dunamin	[the] power	G1411 →
πυρός,	puros	of fire,	G4442 →
ἔφυγον	ephugon	escaped	G5343 →
στόματα	stomata	[the] blades	G4750 →
μαχαίρης,	machairēs	of [the] sword,	G3162 →
ἐδυναμώθησαν	edunamōthēsan	be empowered	G1412 →
ἀπὸ	apo	out of	G575 →
ἀσθενείας,	astheneias	weakness,	G769 →
ἐγενήθησαν	egenēthēsan	became	G1096 →
ἰσχυροὶ	ischuroi	mighty	G2478 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
πολέμῳ,	polemō	war,	G4171 →
παρεμβολὰς	parembolas	[the] armies	G3925 →
ἔκλιναν	eklinan	put to flight	G2827 →
ἀλλοτρίων.	allotriōn	of foreigners.	G245 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 144:10
to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
leads to
- Psalms 18:50
  Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
- Psalms 140:7
  O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.
- Psalms 33:16–18
  No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- 2 Samuel 5:19–25
  So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
- Isaiah 45:1–6
  This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates…
Through
Judges 15:8
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
leads to
- Isaiah 25:10
  For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Isaiah 63:3
  “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and…
- Isaiah 63:6
  I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”