Thematic Bible: Archery
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Archery » In war
Archers provoked him, shot at him, and harassed him.
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Listen! The noisy crowds around the wells are telling about Jehovah's victories, the victories of Israel's people! Then Jehovah's people marched down from their cities.
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The heaviest fighting was against Saul. When the archers got him in their range, he was badly wounded by them.
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All your leaders have fled together. They have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together. You fled while the enemy was still far away.
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All the people in the city will flee at the sound of riders and archers. They will go off into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The entire city will be abandoned. No one will live in it.
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Do not give its soldiers time to shoot their arrows or to put on their armor. Do not spare the young men! Destroy the whole army!
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The corner stone will come from them. The tent peg will come from them. Every ruler and the battle bow will come from them.
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Archery » Practiced by the israelites
He told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow. It is written in the book of Jashar:
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The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty men ready for military service, able-bodied men who could handle shield and sword, who could use a bow, and who were trained for battle.
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All of them were expert archers who could shoot arrows or sling stones with their left hand as well as their right. They were all relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.
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Asa had an army of three hundred thousand Judeans who were armed with large shields and spears and two hundred and eighty thousand Benjaminites who were armed with small shields and bows. All of these men were strong fighting men.
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Uzziah prepared shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones for slings for the entire army.
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So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
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I bend as my bow, Judah. I filled the bow with Ephraim! I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
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Archery » Practiced by the philistines
When the Philistines fought Israel, the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and were killed in battle on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines caught up to Saul and his sons. They killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. The heaviest fighting was against Saul. When the archers got him in their range, he was badly wounded by them.
The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him.
Archery » Practiced by jonathan
I will shoot three arrows at a target off to the side of the rock.
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Jonathan told him: When I shoot the arrows, you run and find them for me. The boy started running, and Jonathan shot an arrow so that it would go beyond him. When the boy reached the place where the arrow fell Jonathan shouted to him: The arrow is farther on!
Archery » Practiced by the persians
I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. 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.
Archery » Practiced by the syrians
Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying: Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel. So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said: Truly, this is the king of Israel. They turned against him and surrounded him. Jehoshaphat gave a cry. When the captains of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel they withdrew from him. read more.
A stray arrow wounded the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing. He said to the chariot driver: Go to the side. Take me away from the fight for I am badly wounded.
A stray arrow wounded the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing. He said to the chariot driver: Go to the side. Take me away from the fight for I am badly wounded.
Archery » Practiced by the people of kedar
The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few. Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken!
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Archery » Practiced by the sons of ulam
The sons of Ulam were brave warriors who could handle the bow. They had many sons and grandsons, one hundred fifty in all. All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
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Archery » Practiced by the lydians
Go into battle, you horsemen. Drive wildly, you chariot drivers. March into battle, you warriors, you warriors from Sudan and Put who carry shields, you warriors from Lydia who use bows and arrows.
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Archery » Practiced by ishmael
God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
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Archery » Practiced by esau
Please take your hunting equipment, your quiver and bow, and go out into the open country and hunt some wild game for me.
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