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 that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Genesis
LawAnd if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonI believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Psalms
PoetryWoe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
Luke
GospelsI say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
1 Kings
HistorySo the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
Exodus
LawAnd he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings
HistoryEat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exodus
LawIn that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Luke
GospelsAn angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.