Thematic Bible: A weapon


Thematic Bible




“He may flee from the iron weapon,
But the bow of bronze will pierce him through.


“He trains my hands for war,
So that my arms can bend (pull back) a bow of bronze.


He trains my hands for war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.


I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows to fall out of your right hand.


Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon];
They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb,
Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.


He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were delightful and pleasing to the eye;
In the tent of the Daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire.


God was with Ishmael, and he grew and developed; and he lived in the wilderness and became an [expert] archer.

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And as she sat down opposite him, she raised her voice and wept.



“Thus says the Lord of hosts,
‘Behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the bow of Elam,
The finest [weapon] of their strength.


and he told them to teach the sons of Judah, the song of the bow. Behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar:


And [when you, Gog, no longer exist] those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both the [large] shields and the bucklers (small shields), the bows and the arrows, the war clubs and the spears; and for seven years they will burn them.