Thematic Bible: Military Arms
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Spiritual armor
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet, the hope of saving health.
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The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.
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in the word of truth, in the power of God through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens. Therefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and stand fast, all the work having been finished. read more.
Stand firm, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate, of righteousness,
Stand firm, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate, of righteousness,
military Arms » Defensive: » Helmet
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears and helmets and coats of mail and bows and slings to cast stones.
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And Saul clothed David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; he also armed him with a coat of mail.
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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a coat of mail of scales; and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of brass.
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military Arms » Before using » Burnished
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus hath the LORD said: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: it is sharpened to slay victims; it is furbished that it may glitter; should we then make mirth? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree. And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled; this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn for the slaughter; it is furbished to consume with brightness:
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military Arms » Part of, borne by armor-bearers
And David came to Saul and stood before him; and he loved him greatly, and he became his armourbearer.
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Then he called hastily unto the young man, his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword and slay me that it not be said of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
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Now it came to pass upon a day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said unto the young man that bore his armour, Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison that is on the other side. But he did not tell his father.
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military Arms » Were provided » By individuals themselves
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all weapons of war, fifty thousand, who could keep rank; they were not of double heart.
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And of the other side of the Jordan, of those of Reuben and those of Gad and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred and twenty thousand.
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military Arms » Were provided » From the public arsenals
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears and helmets and coats of mail and bows and slings to cast stones.
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and in all the cities he put shields and spears. He fortified them greatly, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called instruments of war
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all weapons of war, fifty thousand, who could keep rank; they were not of double heart.
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And of the other side of the Jordan, of those of Reuben and those of Gad and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred and twenty thousand.
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Spiritual weapons
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the destruction of strong holds),
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And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
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military Arms » For sieges: » Armories built for
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all the house of his weapons and all that was found in his treasury; there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
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Thy neck is like the tower of David built for teaching, upon which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Dart or javelin
And it came to pass on the next day that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house, and David played with his hand as at other times, and there was a spear in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the spear, saying, I will smite David to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
Then Joab answered, I may not tarry thus with thee. And taking three darts in his hand, he thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Buckler
The sons of Reuben and of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword and to shoot with bow and skillful in war were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the war.
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He shall slay with the sword thy daughters who are in the field; and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Shield
And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
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And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took it all away, and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. And King Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
military Arms » Defensive: » Coat of mail, breastplate, habergeon, or brigandine
And Saul clothed David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; he also armed him with a coat of mail.
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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a coat of mail of scales; and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of brass.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Spear or lance
They shall hold the bow and the lance; they shall be cruel and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
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So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench and his spear stuck in the ground at his head, but Abner and the people lay round about him.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Girdle
And Joab replied unto the man that told him, Behold, when thou didst see him, why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? I would have given thee ten shekels of silver and a girdle.
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And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his garments, even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle.
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military Arms » Of conquered nations taken away to prevent rebellion
When they chose new gods, the war was at the gates. Was there a shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, Lest peradventure the Hebrews make swords or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock and when they had nicks in the mattocks and the coulters and the forks and the axes, or to fix a goad. read more.
So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan except with Saul and with Jonathan his son who had them.
So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan except with Saul and with Jonathan his son who had them.
military Arms » Offensive: » Bow and arrows
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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But a certain man, shooting his bow in perfection, smote the king of Israel between the joints of his coat of mail; therefore, he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand and carry me out of the host, for I am wounded.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Battle-axe
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his hammers he shall break down thy towers.
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Thou art my hammer, O weapons of war: for with thee I will break in pieces the Gentiles, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms;
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military Arms » Offensive: » Sling
So David overcame the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the Philistine and slew him, but there was no sword in the hand of David.
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And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone and filled it, and they stopped all the fountains of water and felled all the good trees until they left their stones only in Kirharaseth, for the slingers went about it and smote it.
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Judgments of God
They come from a far land, from the end of the heavens, even the LORD, and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
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The LORD has opened his treasury and has brought forth the vessels of his indignation; for this is the work of the Lord GOD of the hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Put on at the first alarm
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries, prepare yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Battering rams
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and the people went against the wall; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
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and lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Dagger
But Ehud had made himself a two-edged sword of a cubit length, and he girded it under his clothing upon his right thigh.
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But Ehud put forth his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into Eglon's belly; in such a manner that the haft also went in after the blade, and the fat closed upon the blade so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly, and the excrement came out.
military Arms » Offensive: » Sword
And the sons of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty-six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be upon their bones because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
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military Arms » Made of iron, steel, or brass
He shall flee from the weapons of iron, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.
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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a coat of mail of scales; and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a shield of brass between his shoulders.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Taken off them
Then Abner said to him, Turn aside to thy right hand or to thy left and lay hold on one of the young men and take his spoil. But Asahel would not turn aside from following after him.
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but when another stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he takes from him all his arms in which he trusted and divides his spoils.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Two-edged sword
The high praises of God shall be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand,
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Engines for casting stones, &c
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones with. And his name spread far abroad, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Great stores of, prepared
Also he strengthened himself and built up all the wall that was broken and caused the towers to be raised up, and another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made swords and shields in abundance.
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military Arms » Inferior to wisdom
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
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military Arms » Hung of the walls of cities
Those of Persia and of Lud and of Africa were in thine army, thy men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they extolled thy beauty. The sons of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they completed thy beauty.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Sometime burned
And those that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and shall set on fire and burn weapons, and shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, and handstaves, and spears, and they shall burn them in the fire for seven years: so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons in the fire; and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them, said the Lord GOD.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Sometimes kept as trophies
And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.
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military Arms » Before using » Tried and proved
And David girded Saul's sword upon Saul's clothing, and he undertook to go, for he had not proved them. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved them. And putting them off, David
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military Arms » For sieges: » Not worn in ordinary times
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand a spear or a sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's business required haste.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called weapons of war
How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
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military Arms » Defensive: » Called harness
But a certain man, shooting his bow in perfection, smote the king of Israel between the joints of his coat of mail; therefore, he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand and carry me out of the host, for I am wounded.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Handstaff
And while he yet spoke, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the princes of the priests and elders of the people.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Greaves
And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a shield of brass between his shoulders.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Target
And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a shield of brass between his shoulders.
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military Arms » Often given as presents
And they each one brought his presents each year, vessels of gold and vessels of silver and garments and arms and spices, horses, and mules.
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military Arms » Before using » Anointed
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called instruments of death
He has also prepared for him the weapons of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Called armor
but when another stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he takes from him all his arms in which he trusted and divides his spoils.
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