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 therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecute him:
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery'shafts .
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds 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 bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite them through with his arrows.
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.
Smith
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