The term flaming sword may refer to any of the following:
- Flaming sword (mythology) - A type of sword described throughout history in legends and myths, ablaze by magical or supernatural means, often seen as being symbolic
- Flaming sword (effect) - A sword that has been coated with some type of combustible fuel, with the fuel being set on fire; this is most widely done for entertainment purposes in circuses, magic performances and other forms of display as a side act of sword swallowers, fire eating, etc.
- "Flaming Sword" - a song by British New Wave group Care
- "Flaming Sword in the Desert" - The militant advance and conquest of Islam across the Middle East and North Africa into Catholic Spain. During the period 622 to 750, Islam supplanted Christianity as the dominant spiritual, military, and political force from Constantinople to Jerusalem to Cordoba.
Famous quotes containing the words flaming and/or sword:
“they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Saul clothed David with his armor; he put a bronze helmet on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail. David strapped Saul’s sword over the armor, and he tried in vain to walk, for he was not used to them.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:38-39.
Saul was very tall.