Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Archery » In war
By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water, There they give out righteous acts of Jehovah, Righteous acts of His villages in Israel, Then ruled in the gates have the people of Jehovah.
And the battle is hard against Saul, and the archers find him -- men with bow -- and he is pained greatly by the archers;
All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.
From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.
Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.
From him is a corner-stone, From him a nail, from him a battle-bow, From him goeth forth every exactor together.
the Bow » Called the battle bow
From him is a corner-stone, From him a nail, from him a battle-bow, From him goeth forth every exactor together.
And I have cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, Yea, cut off hath been the bow of battle, And he hath spoken peace to nations, And his rule is from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.
Nail » Figurative
From him is a corner-stone, From him a nail, from him a battle-bow, From him goeth forth every exactor together.
'And now, as a small moment hath grace been from Jehovah our God, to leave to us an escape, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God's enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude;
And I have fixed him a nail in a stedfast place, And he hath been for a throne of honour To the house of his father.
In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Moved is the nail that is fixed In a stedfast place, Yea, it hath been cut down, and hath fallen, And cut off hath been the burden that is on it, For Jehovah hath spoken!'