They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Judges
HistoryAnd they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John
Gospels / JohnBeing justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job
WisdomAnd all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2 Samuel
HistoryI put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job
WisdomBut the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
Acts
History / LukeAnd he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mark
GospelsThus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawAnd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis
LawTo open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Acts
History / LukeNevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus
LawBut ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?