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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThis is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWe have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
Numbers
Law / MosesWoe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
LawSo they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulO the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
Joshua
HistoryBut hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: