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.
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And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
Luke
GospelsAnd the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Judges
History / SamuelWhich was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
Acts
History / LukeYe shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra
HistoryThe chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAbstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus
LawAnd Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts
HistoryAnd this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
Genesis
LawAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNot for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.