Thematic Bible: Military Arms


Thematic Bible






Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. read more.
Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesCoatsArmourHead coveringShieldsSlingsSpearsArchers, In ArmiesArmor ProtectionArmorySports

Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal. Verse ConceptsArmourArmor ProtectionHelmetsBronze Armourarmor

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourHead coveringArmor ProtectionHelmetsWeights Of Other ThingsBronze Armour

Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourequipping, physicalArmor ProtectionRiding Horsesarmor

Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished: It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ... And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.

And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame: Verse ConceptsSparklingGod's Sword

And David came to Saul, waiting before him: and he became very dear to Saul, who made him his servant, giving him the care of his arms. Verse ConceptsArmourWasteArmorbearerThose Who Lovedarmor

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death. Verse ConceptsArmourArmorbearerApproval To Kill OneselfKilling Named Individuals

Now one day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was with him, looking after his arms, Come, let us go over to the Philistine force over there. But he said nothing to his father. Verse ConceptsArmourGarrisonsManlinessCrossing To The Other SideThose Who Did Not Tell

Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men. Verse ConceptsLoyaltyFifty To Ninety ThousandWhole HeartednessMind Battlestraining

From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war. Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And More

And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesCoatsArmourHead coveringShieldsSlingsSpearsArchers, In ArmiesArmor ProtectionArmorySports

And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his. Verse ConceptsArmourShieldsSpearsArmor ProtectionArmory

Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men. Verse ConceptsLoyaltyFifty To Ninety ThousandWhole HeartednessMind Battlestraining

From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war. Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And More



And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see. Verse ConceptsGoldHerbs And SpicesPride, Examples OfPride, OriginArmoryFragranceThings RevealedTaking Mixed Metalscredibility

Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men. Verse ConceptsNecksArmoryElegancecrusades

Now on the day after, an evil spirit from God came on Saul with great force and he was acting like a prophet among the men of his house, while David was making music for him, as he did day by day: and Saul had his spear in his hand. And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.

Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree. Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedHeart, HumanSpearsPiercingsThree Other Things

There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms. Verse ConceptsMilitaryShieldsSkillArchers, In ArmiesForty Thousand And Up

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you. Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it. Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredWeights Of Gold

And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made. So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal. Verse ConceptsArmourArmor ProtectionHelmetsBronze Armourarmor

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourHead coveringArmor ProtectionHelmetsWeights Of Other ThingsBronze Armour

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon. Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalenemies, of Israel and JudahMercy, HumanSeaRoar Of NationsOppressorsSea, Metaphorical ReferencesPeople Without Mercy

So David and Abishai came down to the army by night: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts with his spear planted in the earth by his head: and Abner and the people were sleeping round him. Verse ConceptsSoldiers

And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe? Verse ConceptsArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionPeople Giving Clothes

And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body. Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourBeltsRobesArmor ProtectionDressPeople Giving ClothesPeople Stripping Offarmor

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears: But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp; For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods. read more.
So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow. Verse ConceptsFighting Enemies

And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfArchers, Men Shot ByChancearmorlungs

He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes. Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken; Verse ConceptsAxesPunishment, Nature OfWeaponsHammersWeapons Of GodWarSpiritual WarfareBattledrums

So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand. Verse ConceptsAchievementdefeatSlinging Stones

Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it. Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land. Verse ConceptsBabylonGod's IndignationAnger Of God, ConsequencesWeaponsDestruction Of CountriesWeapons Of GodGood Things From Far AwayPeople From Far Away

From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans. Verse ConceptsWeaponsArmoryWeapons Of Godventing

Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight. Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth: Verse ConceptsBattlesVoicesBattle Cries

And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down. Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls. Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe. Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach; And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men, Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living. Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsIronSteel

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner. Verse ConceptsPlunderingNot Turning AsideChanging Direction

But when one who is stronger makes an attack on him and overcomes him, he takes away his instruments of war, in which he had put his faith, and makes division of his goods. Verse ConceptsVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesGod Shows Loving KindnessLimitations Of StrengthStrong PeopleTying UpDividing The SpoilOvercoming

Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands; Verse ConceptsPraiseTwo SidedPraise The Lord!Weapons Of The BelieverPraising God With Your Mouth

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; Verse ConceptsSharpnessTwo SidedBitterness

And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong. Verse ConceptsFameIntelligenceStonesInventionsArrowsSports

Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war. Verse ConceptsArmourShieldsTowersWeaponsArmor ProtectionBuilding Jerusalem's Wallrebuildingreinforcement

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good. Verse ConceptsBenefits Of WisdomWeapons Of The BelieverFamily Conflict

Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory. The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them: And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent. Verse ConceptsTentsSkullsMemorabiliaWeed

And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off. Verse ConceptsUnable To Do Other Thingsarmor

And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly. Verse ConceptsUrgencyWeaponsHasteHasty Action

How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken! Verse ConceptsWeaponsPeople StumblingDrawbacks To Man's PowerWarheroes

And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded. Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfArchers, Men Shot ByChancearmorlungs

And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people. Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalChief priestsCrowdsLargenessWhile Still SpeakingTwelve DisciplesClubsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass. Verse ConceptsBackLegsArmor ProtectionJavelinsBronze Armour

His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass. Verse ConceptsBackLegsArmor ProtectionJavelinsBronze Armour

And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year. Verse ConceptsMulesGiftsHerbs And SpicesRobesUnceasingAlways Being ActivePeople Giving ClothesAcquiring Horses

They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates. Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilOfficersShieldsTablesAnointing ThingsEating And Drinking

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire. Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsGod's ArrowsWeapons Of GodArrowsinstruments

But when one who is stronger makes an attack on him and overcomes him, he takes away his instruments of war, in which he had put his faith, and makes division of his goods. Verse ConceptsVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesGod Shows Loving KindnessLimitations Of StrengthStrong PeopleTying UpDividing The SpoilOvercoming

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