Bible Dictionary: Archery in War

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Genesis 49:23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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Judges 5:11
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
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1 Samuel 31:3
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
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Isaiah 22:3
All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far.
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Jeremiah 4:29
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
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Jeremiah 51:3
Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine: and spare you not her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.
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Zechariah 10:4
Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
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Library

Science and the Savages
... have cleared the scientific mind of any belief in the legendary war of 70 ... eccentric
incident can never have happened in the whole history of archery, or that ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/xi science and the savages.htm

'The Hands of the Mighty God of Jacob'
... his enemies, and from the hand of Saul': 'He teacheth my hands to war, so that a ...
a bow into his hand, and given him his first lesson in archery, directing his ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the hands of the mighty.htm

But I First Say a Word Also About the Crown Itself. ...
... one is sacred to Apollo or Bacchus"to the former as the god of archery, to the ... the
mother of the Æneadæ, the mistress also of the god of war, who, through ...
/.../tertullian/the chaplet or de corona/chapter xii but i first.htm

The Life of Mr. John Welch.
... use a sword, that they might see he came for peace and not for war, and so ... practices;
and amongst the rest, he used to go to the bow-butts and archery, on the ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr john 5.htm

The Holy Spirit's Intercession
... of war centuries back. Old English warfare was then conducted by bowmen to a great
extent. Here is a youth who is to be initiated in the art of archery, and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 26 1880/the holy spirits intercession.htm

Book ii.
... of our times of rest; while those that can use their swords in war, and can ... fights
with men; that some of them are harpers, or delight in archery; and besides ...
//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/against apion/book ii.htm

Analysis of the Westminster Confession.
... Puritans (or 'Precisians'), and to make 'the bodies more able for war' when his ... any
lawfull recreation, Such as dauncing, either men or women, Archery for men ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 95 analysis of the.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... letted, or discouraged from dancing, either men or women; archery, leaping, vaulting ...
Sports shall be seized, and publicly burnt.' During the civil war this Act ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm

Subtopics

Archery

Archery in War

Archery: Practiced by Esau

Archery: Practiced by Ishmael

Archery: Practiced by Jonathan

Archery: Practiced by the Israelites

Archery: Practiced by the Lydians

Archery: Practiced by the People of Kedar

Archery: Practiced by the Persians

Archery: Practiced by the Philistines

Archery: Practiced by the Sons of Ulam