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Bow, The
An instrument of war - Ge 48:22; Isa 7:24
Sometimes used in hunting - Ge 27:3
For shooting arrows - 1Ch 12:2
Called the battle bow - Zec 9:10; 10:4
THOSE WHO USED, CALLED
- Bowmen
- Jer 4:29- Archers
- 1Sa 31:3; Jer 51:3Usually of steel - 2Sa 22:35; Job 20:24
Held in the left hand - Eze 39:3
Drawn with full force - 2Ki 9:24
The Jews taught to use - 2Sa 1:18
USED EXPERTLY BY
- Lydians
- Jer 46:9- Elamites
- Jer 49:35- Philistines
- 1Sa 31:2,3- Sons of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh
- 1Ch 5:18- Benjamites
- 1Ch 12:2; 2Ch 14:8Given as a token of friendship - 1Sa 18:4
Often furnished by the state - 2Ch 26:14
Of the vanquished, broken and burned - Ps 37:15; Eze 39:9
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of strength and power
- Job 29:20- Of the tongue of the wicked
- Ps 11:2; Jer 9:3- (When deceitful,) of the hypocrite
- Ps 78:57; Ho 7:16- (When broken,) of the overthrow of power
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