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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Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryKeeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
Exodus
Law / MosesIf a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
Deuteronomy
LawI will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
John
Gospels / JohnMy soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
2 Samuel
HistoryLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
LawYour father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
John
GospelsDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIn his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Acts
HistoryOur fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John
Gospels / JohnFor there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew
GospelsIn the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.