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, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,
"'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;
"'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh-- with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
when I send against youthe deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply 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 teraphim; he looks at the liver.
Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the 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 brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
"'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
A warrior's sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
Smith
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