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, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. 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 Shaddai are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on 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 back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
The LORD will be seen over them; and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and the Lord GOD 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 brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
For the arrows of Shaddai are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait for him.
Smith
Arrows.
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