Judges 5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? Torrey's Topical Textbook
1 Samuel 13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus ... Two tribes having been thus provided for, the bulk of ... cities of the plain, for the Israelites could not ... never of long duration on this ill-defined borderland ... /.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm