Lexicon :: Strong's H970 - bāḥûr

“Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, there will be terror;

the young man and the young woman will be killed,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

His father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as young men were accustomed to do.

Then he said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before,[fn] because you have not pursued younger men, whether rich or poor.

“He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best cattle,[fn] and your donkeys and use them for his work.

He had a son named Saul, an impressive young man. There was no one more impressive among the Israelites than he. He stood a head taller than anyone else.[fn]

and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping? ”

He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”

So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.

God’s anger flared up against them,

and he killed some of their best men.

He struck down Israel’s fit young men.

Fire consumed his chosen young men,

and his young women had no wedding songs.[fn]

You once spoke in a vision to your faithful ones

and said, “I have granted help to a warrior;

I have exalted one chosen[fn] from the people.

young men as well as young women,

old and young together.

The glory of young men is their strength,

and the splendor of old men is gray hair.

Rejoice, young person, while you are young,

and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.

And walk in the ways of your heart

and in the desire of your eyes;

but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice

over[fn] Israel’s young men

and has no compassion

on its fatherless and widows,

for everyone is a godless evildoer,

and every mouth speaks folly.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

Then Assyria will fall,

but not by human sword;

a sword will devour him,

but not one made by man.

He will flee from the sword;

his young men will be put to forced labor.

Youths may become faint and weary,

and young men stumble and fall,

For as a young man marries a young woman,

so your sons will marry you;

and as a groom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.

Pour it out on the children in the street,

on the gathering of young men as well.

For both husband and wife will be captured,

the old with the very old.[fn]

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.

“I made their widows more numerous

than the sand of the seas.

I brought a destroyer at noon

against the mother of young men.

I suddenly released on her

agitation and terrors.

Therefore, hand their children over to famine,

and give them over to the power of the sword.

Let their wives become childless and widowed,

their husbands slain by deadly disease,[fn]

their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,

while young and old men rejoice together.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

give them consolation,

and bring happiness out of grief.

The destroyer of Moab and its towns

has come up,[fn]

and the best of its young men

have gone down to slaughter.

This is the King’s declaration;

the LORD of Armies is his name.

Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;

all the warriors will perish in that day.

This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

Therefore, her young men will fall

in her public squares;

all the warriors will perish in that day.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[fn] of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon[fn] away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ”

Don’t let the archer string his bow;

don’t let him put on[fn] his armor.

Don’t spare her young men;

completely destroy her entire army!

With you I will smash man and woman;

with you I will smash the old man and the youth;

with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.

The Lord has rejected

all the mighty men within me.

He has summoned an army[fn] against me

to crush my young warriors.

The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah

like grapes in a winepress.

The LORD is just,

for I have rebelled against his command.

Listen, all you people;

look at my pain.

My young women and young men

have gone into captivity.

Both young and old

are lying on the ground in the streets.

My young women and young men

have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of your anger,

slaughtering without compassion.

Young men labor at millstones;

boys stumble under loads of wood.

“Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

“dressed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on steeds.

“She lusted after the Assyrians: governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed, horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men.

“the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa; and all the Assyrians with them ​— ​desirable young men, all of them governors and prefects, officers and administrators, all of them riding on steeds.

“The young men of On[fn] and Pi-beseth

will fall by the sword,

and those cities[fn] will go into captivity.

After this

I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity;

then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your old men will have dreams,

and your young men will see visions.

I raised up some of your sons as prophets

and some of your young men as Nazirites.

Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I sent plagues like those of Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with your captured horses.

I caused the stench of your camp

to fill your nostrils,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

In that day the beautiful young women,

the young men also, will faint from thirst.

How lovely and beautiful!

Grain will make the young men flourish,

and new wine, the young women.