Reference: Arrow
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Used by the Jews both in hunting and in war; sometimes merely a sharpened reed, sometimes feathered, barbed, and even poisoned, Job 6:4. The bow was of various forms and materials, and many could be used only by the strongest men, Ps 18:34. Arrows were used to convey fire to an enemy's house, and for divination, Eze 21:21. The word is applied symbolically to children, Ps 127:4-5; to the lightning, Ps 18:14; Hab 3:11; to sudden calamities, Job 6:4; Ps 38:2; 91:5; Eze 5:15; and to the deceitful and bitter words of an evil tongue, Ps 64:3; 120:4.
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ARROW. See ARMS. Divination with arrows was a method of presaging future events, practised by the ancients. Eze 21:21, informs us, that Nebuchadnezzar, putting himself at the head of his armies, to march against Zedekiah, king of the Jews, and against the king of the Ammonites, stood at the parting of two ways, to mingle his arrows together in a quiver, in order to divine from thence which way he should march. Jerom, Theodoret, and the modern commentators after them, believe that this prince took several arrows, and upon each of them wrote the name of the king, town, or province, which he was to attack; for example, upon one, Jerusalem; upon another, Rabbah, the capital of the Ammonites; and upon another, Egypt, &c. After having put these into a quiver, he shook them together, and then drew them out; and the arrow which was drawn was thought to declare the will of the gods to attack first that city, province, or kingdom, with whose name it was inscribed.