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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Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job
WisdomAnd Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
1 Samuel
HistoryThen your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Numbers
LawSing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThat whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John
GospelsAnd Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.
Luke
GospelsAnd the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
1 Samuel
HistoryThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
Acts
HistoryAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark
GospelsAnd this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
Ezra
HistoryFor if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus
LawThus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Genesis
LawAnd one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.