Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Reach out with the spear that is in your hand [and point it] toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua reached out with the spear in his hand [and pointed it] toward the city.

For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

He had bronze shin protectors on his legs and a bronze javelin hung between his shoulders.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came forcefully on Saul, and he raved [madly] inside his house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and there was a spear in Saul’s hand.

Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.

“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.

Draw also the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”