Bible Verses About Horses
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for horses, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,511 votes, led by Job 39:19-25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Horses
Job 39:19-25447 votes
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Proverbs 21:31412 votes
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
James 3:3265 votes
Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Habakkuk 1:8254 votes
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Psalms 20:7170 votes
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
Revelation 19:11-21166 votes
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Job 39:19-24159 votes
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Zechariah 6:1-7140 votes
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
Psalms 20:6-7130 votes
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Jeremiah 46:4127 votes
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
Isaiah 5:28125 votes
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
Proverbs 26:3124 votes
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
Isaiah 63:13121 votes
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
Judges 5:22114 votes
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
2 Kings 2:11112 votes
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
1 Kings 4:26109 votes
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Revelation 19:11-16101 votes
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Job 39:21-24100 votes
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
Psalms 32:996 votes
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Revelation 6:1-894 votes
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
Revelation 6:891 votes
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Joel 2:490 votes
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
Jeremiah 12:582 votes
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Deuteronomy 17:1679 votes
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Psalms 147:1079 votes
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
What does the Bible say about horses?
Readers most often cite Job 39:19-25 on the subject of horses. Across 7,511 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 21:31, James 3:3, Habakkuk 1:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.