Reference: Arrows
Easton
At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (De 32:23,42; Ps 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zec 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Ge 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Eze 21:21).
The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps 38:2; De 32:23. Comp. Eze 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps 91:5), or bitter words (Ps 64:3), or false testimony (Pr 25:18).
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"Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;
'I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.'
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
You will not be afraid of the terror by night, Or of the arrow that flies by day;
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
'When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.
"For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.
Then the LORD will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, And will march in the storm winds of the south.
Morish
With the bow, a common weapon of the ancients. We know not of what wood the arrows of the Israelites were made. Apparently the arrows were sometimes poisoned. Job 6:4; Ps 120:4; Nu 24:8; De 32:23, etc. Arrows are used metaphorically for the judgements of God, Ps 38:2; 45:5: also for anything sharp and painful, as smiting by the tongue. Jer 9:8.
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"God brings him out of Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, And will crush their bones in pieces, And shatter them with his arrows.
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
"Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.
Smith
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