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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Therefore take now, thy weapon, thy quiver and thy bow, and go forth to the field and hunt for me a hunting.
This adversary will embitter him, and the lords of the arrows will lie in wait.
I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall eat flesh, From the blood of the wounded and the captivity, From the head of the enemy's leaders.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
Shall I speak falsehood against my judgment? mine arrow was desperate without transgression.
And he prepared to himself the instruments of death; he will work his arrows for those inflaming.
And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them.
O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
Thou Shalt not be afraid from terror the night; from the arrow that will fly the day;
Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.
A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.
In my sending the evil arrows of famine upon them which were for destruction, which I shall send to destroy you: and I will add famine upon you, and I broke to you the staff of bread.
For the king of Babel stood at the mother of the way in the head of the two ways, to divine a divination; he shook with the arrows, he asked in the family gods, he looked in the liver.
And Jehovah will be seen upon them, and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Jehovah will strike upon the trumpet, and he went with tempests 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 brought him forth out of Egypt; as the swiftness of the buffalo to him: he shall cut up the nations his enemies; he shall cut off their strong defences, and he shall smite through his arrows.
I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger.
Arrows of the strong one sharpened with burning coals of broom.
Their tongue a deadly arrow, speaking deceit; in his mouth he will speak peace to his neighbor, and be will lay his wait in his midst
Smith
Arrows.
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