Lexicon :: Strong's H268 - 'āḥôr

“Dan will be a snake by the road,

a viper beside the path,

that bites the horse’s heels

so that its rider falls backward.

“As for the flap that remains from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang over the back of the tabernacle.

“Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”

Jonathan’s bow never retreated,

Saul’s sword never returned unstained,[fn]

from the blood of the slain,

from the flesh[fn] of the mighty.

When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some of Israel’s finest young men and lined up in formation to engage the Arameans.

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.

When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some of Israel’s finest young men[fn] and lined up in formation to engage the Arameans.

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.

Judah turned and discovered that the battle was in front of them and behind them, so they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

If I go east, he is not there,

and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.

When my enemies retreat,

they stumble and perish before you.

Let those who intend to take my life

be disgraced and humiliated;

let those who plan to harm me

be turned back and ashamed.

Let those who intend to take my life

be disgraced and confounded.

Let those who wish me harm

be turned back and humiliated.

You make us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us

have taken plunder for themselves.

Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from your path.

Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call.

This I know: God is for me.

Let those who seek to kill me

be disgraced and confounded;

let those who wish me harm

be turned back and humiliated.

He beat back his foes;

he gave them lasting disgrace.

The sea looked and fled;

the Jordan turned back.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?

Jordan, that you turned back?

Let all who hate Zion

be driven back in disgrace.

You have encircled me;

you have placed your hand on me.

A fool gives full vent to his anger,[fn]

but a wise person holds it in check.

Oh sinful nation,

people weighed down with iniquity,

brood of evildoers,

depraved children!

They have abandoned the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel;

they have turned their backs on him.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west

have consumed Israel with open mouths.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

The word of the LORD will come to them:

“Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there,”

so they go stumbling backward,

to be broken, trapped, and captured.

“Tell us the coming events,

then we will know that you are gods.

Indeed, do something good or bad,

then we will be in awe[fn] when we see it.

“They will be turned back and utterly ashamed —

those who trust in an idol

and say to a cast image,

‘You are our gods! ’

Who among you will hear this?

Let him listen and obey in the future.

who destroys the omens of the false prophets

and makes fools of diviners;

who confounds the wise

and makes their knowledge foolishness;

The Lord GOD has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious;

I did not turn back.

Justice is turned back,

and righteousness stands far off.

For truth has stumbled in the public square,

and honesty cannot enter.

“Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

“You have left me.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“You have turned your back,

so I have stretched out my hand against you

and destroyed you.

I am tired of showing compassion.

“‘All the women[fn] who remain in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon and will say to you,[fn]

“Your trusted friends[fn] misled[fn] you

and overcame you.

Your feet sank into the mire,

and they deserted you.”

Why have I seen this?

They are terrified,

they are retreating,

their warriors are crushed,

they flee headlong,

they never look back,

terror is on every side!

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Jerusalem has sinned grievously;

therefore, she has become an object of scorn.[fn]

All who honored her now despise her,

for they have seen her nakedness.

She herself groans and turns away.

He sent fire from on high into my bones;

he made it descend.[fn]

He spread a net for my feet

and turned me back.

He made me desolate,

sick all day long.

He has cut off every horn of Israel

in his burning anger

and withdrawn his right hand

in the presence of the enemy.

He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire

that consumes everything.

When he unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

So he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the LORD’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the LORD’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.