Thematic Bible: A weapon


Thematic Bible



“He may flee from the iron weapon,
But the bronze bow will pierce him.

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.


I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.

And their bows will mow down the young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their eye pity children.

He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were pleasant to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire.


God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.


“Thus says the Lord of hosts,
‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam,
The finest of their might.


and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.


“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.