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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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsWho had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawThat pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalms
PoetryBalaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesA time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy
LawFor here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBecause they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.