Shield
A defensive weapon symbolizing God's protection and the believer's faith. Genesis 15:1 records God telling Abraham, 'I am your shield, your very great reward.' Psalm 3:3 declares, 'You, Lord, are a shield around me.' Psalm 18:35 praises, 'You make your saving help my shield.' Proverbs 30:5 affirms, 'He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.' Ephesians 6:16 instructs believers to 'take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.' The shield represents trust in God's sovereign protection — not immunity from attack, but confidence that no spiritual assault can penetrate the defense of active, living faith.
Verses about Shield
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בראשית 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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דברים 33:29
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thi…
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שופטים 5:8
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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שמואל א 17:7
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before …
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שמואל א 17:41
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
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שמואל א 17:45
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord o…
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שמואל ב 1:21
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vil…
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שמואל ב 8:7
And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
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שמואל ב 22:3
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me fro…
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שמואל ב 22:36
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
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מלכים א 10:17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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מלכים א 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shie…
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מלכים א 14:27
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s…
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מלכים ב 11:10
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord.
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מלכים ב 19:32
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with sh…
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דברי הימים א 12:8
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could…
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דברי הימים א 12:24
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
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דברי הימים א 12:34
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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דברי הימים א 18:7
And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
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דברי הימים ב 9:16
And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest…