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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And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
2 Samuel
HistoryWherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewVerily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Mark
GospelsThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.
Mark
GospelsAnd Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBy swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSaying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Acts
HistoryThe LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke
GospelsSurely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOf Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers
LawGod shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThen Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
Genesis
LawBut Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy
LawBut they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Mark
GospelsHow much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.