Archery
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Archery’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 27 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.
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Genesis 27:3 OT
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
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I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
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He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
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When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
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The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
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Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and…
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The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
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Isaiah 13:17 OT
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
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Isaiah 13:18 OT
Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
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Isaiah 21:17 OT
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.” When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the…
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(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
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The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
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They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.
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Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
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Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
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For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
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Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
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The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:
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Judges 5:11 OT
Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
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The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
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Isaiah 22:3 OT
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.