stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

1 Thess. v, 8.. And [put on] for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

HELMET AND SHIELD. Ezek. xxiii, 24. [They]. .. shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about....

Ezek. xxvii, 10. They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee.....

MAIL OR BREASTPLATE. Exod. xxviii, 32. And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an Habergeon, that it be not rent.

1 Sam. xvii, 5. 38. . . . . And he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was dve thousand shekels of brass. Also he [Saul] armed him [David] with a coat of mail.

1 Kings xxii, 34. And a certain mau drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: where

fore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

2 Chron. xxvi, 14. And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons....

Neh. iv, 16. And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

and a target of brass between his shoulders.

2 Sam. xxiil, 7. But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

SHIELD, BUCKLER, OR
TARGET.

Judges v, 8. They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

2 Sam. i, 21. Ye mountains of Gilboa let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

2 Sam. vili, 7. And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

1 Kings x, 16, 17. And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beater gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings xiv, 26, 27. And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

2 Kings xi, 10. And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the tem

....

his

2 Kings xix, 32. Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against

it.

2 Chron. xxiil, 9. Moreover Jehofada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's which were in the house of God.

Ps. xxxv, 2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Isa. xxi, 5. Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Jer. xlvi, 3, 9. Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men Ethiopians and the Libyans that come forth; the handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

Ezek. xxxix, 9. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years.

SYMBOL OF DIVINE
PROTECTION

Gen. xv, 1. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying. Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

2 Sam. xxii. 31. As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

Ps. iii, 3. But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Ps. v, 12. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

Ps. xxxiii, 20. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Ps. xlvii, 9. The princes of the People are gathered together, even the people of the God of

Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

O LORD our shield.

Ps. lxxxiv, 9, 11. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Ps. lix, 11. Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by 2 Chron. xii, 9, 10. So Shishakthy power, and bring them down, king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.

Ps. cxv, 9-11. O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; he is

their help and their shield. Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

Ps. cxix, 114. Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Ps. cxliv, 2. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Irov. ii. 7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly."

Prov. xxx, 5. Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

ARROW, BOW, ARCHERY. Gen. xx1, 20. And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an

archer.

1 Sam. xviii, 4. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

1 Sam. xx, 20. 36, 40. And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark. And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows

which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go carry them to the city.

1 Sam. xxxi, 3. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the

Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria. And he said, Take the And he took them. arrows. and he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

1 Chron. x, 3. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

1 Chron. xii, 2. They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Neh. iv, 13. Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

BOW AND ARROWS, THE CHARACTERISTIC WEAPONS OF JEWISH AND FOREIGN NATIONS, AS SEEN IN THE FOLLOWING ALLUSIONS.

Gen. xxi, 16. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot..

Gen. xlviii, 22. Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Gen. xlix, 24. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the

in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Ps. xlvi, 9. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Ps. lxxvi, 3. There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

P8. lxxviii, 57. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

in the hand of a mighty man; so Ps. cxxvii, 4, 5. As arrows are are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Isa. v, 28. Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be count ed like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Isa, xxii, 3, 6. All thy rulers aro fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. And Elum bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

1sa. xli, 2. Who raised up the righteous man from the cast, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

Isa. xlix, 2. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he shaft; in his quiver hath he hid

wounded of the archers.

1 Kings xxii, 34. And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

2 Kings vi, 22. And he answered Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Kings ix, 24. And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

herd, the stone of Israel.) Jacob; (from thence is the shep

Num.xxiv, 8. [The Unicorn] Shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

2 Sam. i, 18, 22. (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and

the sword of Saul returned not empty.

2 Kings xix, 32. Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

Job xx, 24. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

2 Kings xiii, 15-18. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Ps. xliv, 6. For I will not trust

Job xxix, 20. My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

me.

Isa. lxvi, 19. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

Jer. v, 16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

Jer. vi, 23. They shall lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter

SLING.

Judges xx, 16. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

1 Samuel xvii, 40. 49. And he took his staff in his hand. and choose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

2 Kings ili, 25. And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

1 Sam. xxv. 29. Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seck thy soul but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

I was stayed from the children of Israel.

1 Sam. xviii, 10, 11. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

1 Sam. xix, 9, 10. And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand. And Saul sought to smite David even to the

wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall; and David fled, and escaped that night.

2 Sam. xviii. 14. Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thec. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Chron. xxxil, 5. Also he [Hezekiah] strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

1 Sam. xxi, S. And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

1 Sam. xxvi. 7, 8, 11, 16. So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay around about him. Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into

thine hand this day: now therefore let me sinite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go. This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, master. the LORD's anointed. And because ye have not kept your now see where the king's spear

is, and the cruse of water that was

at his bolster.

DAGGER.

Judges iii, 16, 21, 22. But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and

the dirt came out.

DART, JAVELIN. Num. xxv, 7, 8. And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague

dart.

Prov. vil, 23. Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not

that it is for his life.

SPEAR.

Josh. viii, 18. 26. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai: for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city. For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

1 Sam. xiii, 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.

1 Sam. xvii. 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's

2 Sam. ii, 23. Howbeit he refus

ed to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear

smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asaliel fell down and died stood still.

2 Sam. xxi, 19. And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2 Sam. xxiii, 7. But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron, and the staff of a spear.

1 Chron. xi, 11, 20, 23. And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. And he slew an Egyptian, a mar

of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's band was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

1 Chron. xx, 5. And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear's staff was like a weaver's beam.

Neh. iv, 21. So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

John xix, 34. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water.

Acts xxiii, 23. And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night.

Ps. xxxv, 3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Ps. Ivii, 4. My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them

that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Ps. Ixviii, 30. Rebuke the company of spearmen.

Jer. vi, 23. They shall lay hold

on bow and spear.

Nahum iii, 3. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses.

OTHER WEAPONS.

Num. xxxv, 18. Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Jer. 1, 42. They shall hold the bow and the lance.

Jer. 11, 20. Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.

Ezek. xxvi, 9. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

SWORD.

WORN IN A SHEATH, AND DRAWN IN ORDER TO BE USED.

will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Num. xxil, 23. And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

Judges vill, 10, 20. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, drew not his sword: for he feared and slay them. But the youth because he was yet a youth.

Judges xx, 25, 46. And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

1 Sam. xvii, 51. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.

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at the great stone which is in 2 Sam. xx, 8. When they were Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

2 Kings ill, 26. And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

1 Chron. x, 4. Then said Sanl to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

1 Chron. xxi. 27. And the LORD commanded the angel, and he put up his sword again into the sheath

thereof.

John xviii, 11. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not

Acts xvi, 27. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

Lev. xxvi, 33. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Isa. xxi, 15. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Jer. xlvii 6. O thou sword of the

LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

the land of Israel, Thus saith the Ezekiel xxi, 3--5. And say to LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath; it shall not return any more.

Ezek. xxviii, 7. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezekiel xxx, 11. He and his

the nations, shall be brought to people with him, the terrible of destroy the land: and they shall and fill the land with the slain. draw their swords against Egypt,