Topic
Armor-Bearer
11 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 9:54ISBE · Nave Of Abimelech
Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
- 1 Samuel 14:7ISBE · Nave Of Jonathan
And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
- 1 Samuel 17:7ISBE · Nave Of Goliath
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
- 1 Samuel 14:6Nave Of Jonathan
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
- 1 Samuel 14:12Nave Of Jonathan
And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 14:17Nave Of Jonathan
Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
- 1 Samuel 16:21Nave Saul
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
- 1 Samuel 31:4ISBE
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.
- 1 Samuel 31:6Nave Saul
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
- 2 Samuel 18:15Nave Of Joab
And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
- 2 Samuel 23:37ISBE
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
ar'-mer-bar'-er (nose' keli; Greek uses a phrase, ho airon ta skeue, literally "the one carrying the armor"): One who carried the large shield and perhaps other weapons for a king (1Sa 31:4), commander-in-chief (2Sa 23:37), captain (1Sa 14:7) or champion (1Sa 17:7). All warriors of distinction had such an attendant. Rather than perish by the hand of a woman, Abimelech called upon his armor-bearer to give him the finishing stroke (Jud 9:54), and when King Saul's armor-bearer refused to do this office for him that he might not become the prisoner of the Philistines, he took a sword himself and fell upon it (1Sa 31:4). David became Saul's armor-bearer for a time, and Jonathan's armor-bearer was a man of resource and courage (1Sa 14:7). The shield-bearer was a figure well known in the chariots of Egypt and Assyria and the Hittites, his business being to protect his fighting companion during the engagement.
T. Nicol.
In the topical indexes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.