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• God as Lord over earthly or heavenly armies.

  ‘O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee ’.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.’
  • ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!’
  • ‘I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!’
  • ‘And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith The Lord of hosts.’