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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Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus
LawThey have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
Genesis
LawAnd they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAs it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIt shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawStudy to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesEven of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
1 Chronicles
HistoryGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Genesis
LawAnd Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers
LawAnd the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Judges
History / SamuelThe one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosYea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.