Probably should be cut more than that, but some of the saved money on instruments of war and «special contracts» could maybe actually go to veterans. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Hanson, ibid., does not regard Zechariah 9:9 - 10 as an interruption, but makes nothing of the king's humility, nor of his disarming, not of enemies, but of his own people — of Judah and Ephraim, who in v. 13 are the two instruments of war in the Divine Warrior's hands. (religion-online.org)
Yet ecological disasters, fearsome instruments of war, vast systems of... (religion-online.org)