garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

1 Chron. xiv, 17. And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.

Esther ix, 2. The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and

no

man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

Isa. xxx, 17. One thousand shall fee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee.

Jer. xlix, 5, 37. Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GoD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Ezek. xxxii, 9, 10. I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

Obad. 9. And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

ARMOUR.

USUALLY WORN BY SOLDIERS, AND COVETED BY

THE VICTOR.

1 Sam. xvii, 54. And David took

he head of the Philistine, and

brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

1 Sam. xxi, 9. And the priest said, The sword of Goliah the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, It is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

1 Sam. xxxi, 8-10. And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people. And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

2 Sam. ii, 21. And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.

1 Kings xxii, 38. And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his

armour.

Cant. iv, 4. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Isa. xxii, 8. And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

Isa. xxxix, 2. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures.

to Saul, and stood before him: and 1 Sam. xvi, 21. And David came he loved him greatly; and he be

came his armourbearer.

1 Sam. xxxi, 6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

1 Sam. xiv, 1. Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

1 Sam. xxxi, 4, 5. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through

therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

2 Sam. xviii, 15. And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absaloin, and slew him.

Luke xi, 22. But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from

him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

Rom. xiii, 12. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

2 Cor. vi, 7. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.

THE CHRISTIAN ARMOUR

AND WEAPONS. Eph. vi, 11-17. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

THE VARIOUS PIECES OF ARMOUR. HELMET.

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 up rightly.

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 archers hit him; and he was sore 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.

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.

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 arrows. And he took them. 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 hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.)

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

2 Sam. 1, 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.

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

Ps. xliv, 6. For I will not trust

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..

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

in the hand of a mighty man; so Ps. cxxvii, 4, 5. As arrows are is the man that hath his quiver are children of the youth. Happy 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 counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Isa. xxii, 3, 6. All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers; all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. And Elam 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 east, 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 hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid

me.

Isa. Ixvi, 19. And I will set a those that escape of them unto the sign among them, and I will send 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

Jer. 1, 9, 14, 29, 42. For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. Put your selves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she

hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Baby

lon.

Jer. li, 3, 11. Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his devico is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Lam. ii, 4. He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Ezek. xxi, 21. For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright.

Ezek. xxxix, 3. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

Hosea i, 5, 7. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horse

men.

Hosea vii, 16. They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Amos ii, 15. Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

Zech. ix, 10, 13. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea eren to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. When I have bent Judah for me. filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons. O Zion, against thy sons. O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty

man.

Zech. x, 4. Out of him came forth the corner, out of him tho nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor to gether.

Rev. vi, 2. And I saw, and be hold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer

ARROWS ARE IMAGES OF

SUDDEN AND TERRIBLE

EVIL INFLICTED BY
MAN.

P3. xi, 2. For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Ps. xxxvii, 14. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Ps. lviii, 7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Ps. lxiv, 3. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows,

even bitter words.

AND ALSO OF DIVINE
JUDGMENT.

Job vi, 4. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Job xvi, 13. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

righteous, and God is angry with Ps. vii, 11-13. God judgeth the the wicked every day. If he turn hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for

not, he will whet his sword; ne

him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

his arrows, and scattered them Ps. xviii, 14. Yea, he sent out

Ps. xxi, 12. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Ps. xxxviii, 2. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Ps. xlv, 5. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall

under thee.

Ps. lxiv, 7. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

Ps. lxxvii, 17. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

Ps. xci, 5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day.

Ps. cxliv, 6. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Lam. it. 4. He hath bent his

bow like an enemy.

....

Lam. iii, 12. 13. He hath bent

Prov. xxvi, 18. As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death.

Jer. ix, 3, 8. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Ezek. v, 16. When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of fa

mine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you.

...

Hab. iii, 9, 11. Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

SLING.

Judges xx, 16. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men letthanded; 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 iii, 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 seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; und the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Prov. xxvi, 8. As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

Jer. x, 18. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

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 throuch her belly. So the plague

was stayed from the children of Israel.

1 Sam. xvii, 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 slipped away out of Saul's prewall with the javelin; but he sence, 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 thee. 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.

Heb. xii, 20. For they could not

endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast

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

1 Sam. xxi, 8. 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 fore let me sinite him, I pray thine hand this day: now therethee, 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 Loko'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.

2 Sam. i, 6. And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear.

dart.

Prov. vii, 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 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 Asahel 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 Iachmonite, 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