Psalms 46:9

The destruction of the Assyrians is an earnest of that final abolition of war which Jehovah will one day bring about, destroying the weapons of war, or burning them in a vast pyre upon the battlefield, as Isaiah predicted (Psalms 9:5, R.V.). Cp. Isaiah 2:4 (Micah 4:3); Zechariah 9:10.

the chariot R.V. the chariots. The word however is nowhere used of war chariots, and must rather mean baggage-wagons(cp. 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Samuel 26:7). Perhaps, as Baethgen proposes, the word should be vocalised - agîlôthinstead of - agâlôth, and rendered as in LXX and Targ., shields.