Lexicon :: Strong's H4818 - merkāḇâ

“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea;

His chosen captains are drowned in the [fn]Red Sea.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow by this time I am going to hand over all of them slain [by the sword] to Israel; you shall hamstring (disable) their horses and set fire to their chariots.”

“Out of the window she looked down and lamented (cried out in a shrill voice),

The mother of Sisera through the lattice,

‘Why is his chariot delayed in coming?

Why have the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

After this, Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men as runners before him.

Elisha said to him, “Did my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a [proper] time to accept money and clothing and olive orchards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?

When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him too, [while he is] in the chariot.” So they shot him at the ascent to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And Ahaziah fled to Megiddo and died there.

When Jehu went on from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with yours?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand, and Jehu pulled him up into the chariot.

Now Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities or with the king at Jerusalem.

Now Zerah the Ethiopian (Cushite) came out against Judah with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came as far as Mareshah.

“Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire had brought me

Into the area of the princes of my people [the king’s retinue].”

Their land has also been filled with silver and gold

And there is no end to their treasures;

Their land has also been filled with horses

And there is no end to their chariots.

And roll you up tightly like a ball

And toss you into a vast country;

There you will die

And there your splendid chariots will be,

You shame of your master’s house.’

For indeed, the LORD will come in fire

And His chariots will be like the stormy wind,

To render His anger with rage,

And His rebuke with flames of fire.

“Behold, the enemy comes up like clouds,

His chariots like the whirlwind;

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe (judgment is coming) to us, for we are ruined!”

Like the noise of chariots

They leap on the tops of the mountains,

Like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble,

Like a mighty people set in battle formation.

Harness the chariot to the team of horses [to escape the invasion],

O inhabitant of Lachish—

She was the beginning of sin

To the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem)—

Because in you were found

The rebellious acts of Israel.

“And in that day,” says the LORD,

“I will cut off your horses from among you

And destroy your chariots [on which you depend].

The noise of the [cracking of the] whip,

The noise of the rattling of the wheel,

Galloping horses

And rumbling and bounding chariots [in the assault of Nineveh]!

Did the LORD rage against the rivers,

Or was Your anger against the rivers,

Or was Your wrath against the [Red] Sea,

That You rode on Your horses,

On Your chariots of salvation?

Now again I looked up, and [fn]four chariots were coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of [firm, immovable] bronze (divine judgment).