Thematic Bible: A weapon


Thematic Bible



Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

You train me for battle, so that I can use the strongest bow.

He trains my hands for battle so that my arms can bend an archer's bow of bronze.


I will knock his bow out of his left hand and his arrows out of his right hand.

And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.

He bends his bow for the attack. He takes his place with his hand ready. In his hate he puts to death all those pleasing to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Zion. He poured out his rage just like fire.


God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

She sat across from him at a distance. She thought: I cannot watch the boy die. She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.


This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: 'I am going to break the bows of Elam's archers, the most important weapon of their strength.


He told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow. It is written in the book of Jashar:


The people who live in the cities of Israel will go out and collect the abandoned weapons for firewood. They will build fires with the shields, bows, arrows, spears, and clubs, and have enough to last for seven years.