Reference: Archer
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a shooter with the bow (1Ch 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Ge 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by the Philistine archers (1Sa 31:3). The phrase "breaking the bow" (Ho 1:5; Jer 49:35) is equivalent to taking away one's power, while "strengthening the bow" is a symbol of its increase (Ge 49:24). The Persian archers were famous among the ancients (Isa 13:18; Jer 49:35; 50:9,14,29,42. (See Bow).
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And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;
But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:
And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.
And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.
For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.
Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.
Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel.