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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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsFor the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Proverbs
WisdomBut (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Deuteronomy
LawHath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIt is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
1 Kings
HistoryAs the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs
WisdomLet it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawGreat in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles
HistoryA merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
Judges
HistoryAnd charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBe kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.