Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Cross-reference
Psalm 95:1 calls God 'the rock of our salvation', paralleling the main verse's 'my rock' with a communal focus.
Psalm 71:3 asks God to be a 'rock of refuge', expanding the rock metaphor from the main verse.
Psalm 18:34 uses the exact same phrase about hands trained for war — showing this is a recurring theme in David's life.
Psalm 18:2 also calls God 'my rock', using the same foundational metaphor for divine strength.
Psalm 18:31 asks 'who is a rock, except our God?', reinforcing the rock imagery of the main verse.
Psalm 108:13 declares God helps us do valiantly and tread down foes — directly parallel to God training hands for war.
Psalm 18:1 begins a Davidic psalm that later uses similar warrior imagery; both praise God as strength for battle.
Psalm 138:7 describes God preserving life and stretching out His hand against enemies — similar divine intervention in battle.
Psalm 60:12 affirms that God enables victory over enemies — the same confidence in God's provision for battle as here.
Psalm 44:3 emphasizes that victory comes from God's power, not human ability — the same divine source as the training here.
2 Samuel 22:35 repeats the exact same line about hands trained for war — David's consistent testimony of God's equipping.
Deuteronomy 32:31 contrasts 'our Rock' with false gods, echoing the main verse's declaration of God as rock.
Deuteronomy 32:30 uses 'their Rock' in a military context, linking to the war-training theme of the main verse.
2 Corinthians 10:4 reframes warfare as spiritual, contrasting with the physical battle imagery here — weapons of divine power replace bronze bows.
Ezekiel 30:24 has God strengthening arms and putting a sword in hand — directly parallel to God training for war.
Zechariah 9:13 has God bending Judah as His bow — using people as weapons, parallel to training for battle.
Deuteronomy 20:4 promises God fights for Israel in battle, complementing the training theme here with divine presence in war.
In 1 Chronicles 14:11, David says God broke through enemies by his hand, directly illustrating the hand-training for battle from the Psalm.
2 Samuel 8:6 records that the LORD gave David victory everywhere, showing the historical outcome of the training praised in the Psalm.
In Genesis 14:20, Melchizedek blesses God for delivering enemies into Abram's hand, mirroring the praise for battle victory here.
Ephesians 6:11 describes God's armor for spiritual battle — mirroring the divine training for war here, now in a spiritual realm.
In Isaiah 26:4, God is called an everlasting rock — echoing the same rock imagery here, though focused on trust rather than battle training.
Isaiah 45:24 declares that strength is found only in the LORD — reinforcing the divine source of the war training mentioned here.
Ephesians 6:10 calls believers to be strong in the Lord — the same source of strength that trains hands for war here.