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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Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Leviticus
LawAnd thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
1 Samuel
HistoryLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOr whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
Leviticus
LawThe sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis
Law / MosesI know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis
LawLeah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus
LawYe are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
Ezra
HistoryAnd she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judges
History / SamuelThe blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew
GospelsThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
1 Kings
HistorySurely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.