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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The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job
WisdomAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsBecause for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts
HistoryFor not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesLo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job
WisdomNevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus
LawJesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
John
GospelsNow when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Job
WisdomThen answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges
History / SamuelThen he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.