ARCHERY

Passages on this topic · 31

• Genesis 21:20

  God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

• Genesis 27:3

  Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

• Judges 5:11

  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.

• 1 Samuel 20:20

  I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.

• 1 Samuel 20:36

  He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

• 1 Samuel 20:37

  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?”

• 1 Samuel 31:1

  Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

• 1 Samuel 31:2

  The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 31:3

  The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

• 2 Samuel 1:18

  (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

• 1 Kings 22:31

  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.”

• 1 Kings 22:32

  When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they turned aside to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

• 1 Kings 22:33

  When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

• 1 Kings 22:34

  A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”

• 1 Chronicles 5:18

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 8:40

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 10:3

  The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 14:8

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 26:14

  Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

• Nehemiah 4:13

  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.

• Isaiah 13:17

  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

• Isaiah 13:18

  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.

• Isaiah 21:17

  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.”

• Isaiah 22:3

  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.

• Jeremiah 4:29

  Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

• Jeremiah 46:9

  Go up, you horses; and 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.

• Jeremiah 51:3

  Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!

• Zechariah 9:13

  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.

• Zechariah 10:4

  From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.