Thematic Bible: Military Arms
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Spiritual armor
But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.
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The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.
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by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,
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Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand. read more.
Stand firm therefore, by fastening the belt of truth around your waist, by putting on the breastplate of righteousness,
Stand firm therefore, by fastening the belt of truth around your waist, by putting on the breastplate of righteousness,
military Arms » Defensive: » Helmet
Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.
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Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.
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He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels.
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military Arms » Before using » Burnished
Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen you spears! Put on your armor!
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"Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Lord says: "'A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! "'Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! "'He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand -- the sword is sharpened, it is polished -- giving it into the hand of the executioner.
"As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; say: "'A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning --
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military Arms » Part of, borne by armor-bearers
David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, and he became his armor bearer.
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He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, "Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, 'A woman killed him.'" So the young man stabbed him and he died.
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Then one day Jonathan son of Saul said to his armor bearer, "Come on, let's go over to the Philistine garrison that is opposite us." But he did not let his father know.
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military Arms » Were provided » By individuals themselves
From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty.
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From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.
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military Arms » Were provided » From the public arsenals
Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.
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In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called instruments of war
From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty.
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From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Spiritual weapons
for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
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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
Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.
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Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it -- all shields of valiant warriors.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Dart or javelin
The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre that day. There was a spear in Saul's hand, and Saul threw the spear, thinking, "I'll nail David to the wall!" But David escaped from him on two different occasions.
Joab replied, "I will not wait around like this for you!" He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Buckler
The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men in their combined armies, warriors who carried shields and swords, were equipped with bows, and were trained for war.
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He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Shield
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield.
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He took away the treasures of the Lord's temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
military Arms » Defensive: » Coat of mail, breastplate, habergeon, or brigandine
Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.
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He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Spear or lance
Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle, they are coming against you, fair Babylon!
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So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Girdle
Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, "What! You saw this? Why didn't you strike him down right on the spot? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a commemorative belt!"
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Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with the rest of his gear, including his sword, his bow, and even his belt.
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military Arms » Of conquered nations taken away to prevent rebellion
God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.
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A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, "This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears." So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened. They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads. read more.
So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
military Arms » Offensive: » Bow and arrows
As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow."
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Now an archer shot an arrow at random, and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, because I'm wounded."
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military Arms » Offensive: » Battle-axe
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
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"Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Sling
David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand.
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They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
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military Arms » Illustrative of » Judgments of God
They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.
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I have opened up the place where my weapons are stored. I have brought out the weapons for carrying out my wrath. For I, the Lord God who rules over all, have work to carry out in the land of Babylonia.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Put on at the first alarm
"Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle! Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen you spears! Put on your armor!
You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!
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military Arms » For sieges: » Battering rams
So Joab's men came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab's soldiers were trying to break through the wall so that it would collapse,
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Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Dagger
Ehud made himself a sword -- it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.
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Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon's belly. The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.
military Arms » Offensive: » Sword
That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.
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They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.
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military Arms » Made of iron, steel, or brass
If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
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He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Taken off them
Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers and take his equipment for yourself!" But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.
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But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man's armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.
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military Arms » Offensive: » Two-edged sword
May they praise God while they hold a two-edged sword in their hand,
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but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Engines for casting stones, &c
In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Great stores of, prepared
Hezekiah energetically rebuilt every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, and fortified the terrace of the City of David. He made many weapons and shields.
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military Arms » Inferior to wisdom
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.
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military Arms » Hung of the walls of cities
Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, men of war. They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor. The Arvadites joined your army on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Sometime burned
"'Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling -- the shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears -- they will burn them for seven years. They will not need to take wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the sovereign Lord.
military Arms » Of the vanquished » Sometimes kept as trophies
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath's weapons in his tent.
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military Arms » Before using » Tried and proved
David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. David said to Saul, "I can't walk in these things, for I'm not used to them." So David removed them.
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military Arms » For sieges: » Not worn in ordinary times
David said to Ahimelech, "Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don't have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king's instructions."
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called weapons of war
How the warriors have fallen! The weapons of war are destroyed!
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military Arms » Defensive: » Called harness
Now an archer shot an arrow at random, and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, because I'm wounded."
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military Arms » Offensive: » Handstaff
While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Greaves
He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Target
He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.
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military Arms » Often given as presents
Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.
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military Arms » Before using » Anointed
Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
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military Arms » Offensive: » Called instruments of death
He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.
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military Arms » Defensive: » Called armor
But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man's armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.
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