Thematic Bible: Defensive:


Thematic Bible



Moreover, Uzziah prepared shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and sling stones for the entire army.

Then Saul dressed David in his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and put a coat of mail (armor) on him.

He had a bronze helmet on his head, and wore a coat of scale-armor (overlapping metal plates) which weighed 5,000 shekels of bronze.


The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh—valiant men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were 44,760 who went to war.

He will kill your daughters on the mainland with the sword, and he shall make siege walls against you and build a siege ramp against you and raise [a roof of] large shields [as a defense] against you.


King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten (hammered) gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the king's house; he took away all, including all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. King Rehoboam made in their stead bronze shields and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard who kept the door of the king's house.


Then Saul dressed David in his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and put a coat of mail (armor) on him.

He had a bronze helmet on his head, and wore a coat of scale-armor (overlapping metal plates) which weighed 5,000 shekels of bronze.


Joab said to the man who informed him, “You saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

Jonathan stripped himself of the outer robe that he was wearing and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword, his bow, and his belt.


But one man drew a bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, because I have been seriously wounded.”


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


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


But when someone stronger than he attacks and overpowers him, he robs him of all his armor on which he had relied and divides his [goods as] spoil.