Horse
28 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Bells For
- Bits For
- Color of
- Commerce In
- Dedicated to Religious Uses
- Description of a Vain Thing for Safety
- Description of Great Strength
- Description of Snorting and Neighing of
- Description of Swifter than Eagles
- Egypt Famous For
- Exported: from Babylon
- Exported: from Egypt
- Forbidden to the Kings of Israel
- Hamstrung by David
- Hamstrung by Joshua
- Harness For
- Israel Reproved for Keeping
- Symbolical
Bells For
- Zechariah 14:20 On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.
Bits For
- James 3:3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.
Color of
- Zechariah 1:8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
Commerce In
- Revelation 18:13 of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves.
Dedicated to Religious Uses
- 2 Kings 23:11 And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
Description of a Vain Thing for Safety
- Psalm 33:17 A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
- Proverbs 21:31 A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
Description of Great Strength
- Job 39:19–25 Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane? …
Description of Snorting and Neighing of
- Isaiah 5:28 Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
- Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
Description of Swifter than Eagles
- Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
Egypt Famous For
- Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
Exported: from Babylon
- Ezra 2:66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
- Nehemiah 7:68 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
Exported: from Egypt
- 1 Kings 10:28–29 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 9:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.
Forbidden to the Kings of Israel
- Deuteronomy 17:16 But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
Hamstrung by David
- 2 Samuel 8:4 David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
Hamstrung by Joshua
- Joshua 11:6 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”
- Joshua 11:9 Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
Harness For
- Jeremiah 46:4 Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
Israel Reproved for Keeping
- Isaiah 2:7 Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
- Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
- Ezekiel 17:15 But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
- Hosea 14:3 Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
Symbolical
- Zechariah 1:8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- Revelation 6:2–8 So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer. …
- Revelation 9:17 Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur.
- Revelation 19:11–21 Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.