Topic
Bowman
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Samuel 1:5ISBE
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
- 2 Samuel 1:7ISBE
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
- 2 Samuel 1:18ISBE
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
- Isaiah 5:28ISBE
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- Isaiah 37:33ISBE
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 shields, nor cast a bank against it.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
bo'-man: Israel seems not to have been equal to the surrounding peoples in the use of the bow. The battle of Gilboa was clearly lost through the superior skill of the Philistine bowmen. This seems to have moved David to encourage archery practice in Judah (2Sa 1:18; compare Driver in the place cited.). It is thought probable that the revival of Israel's military power under Jeroboam, son of Joash, was due to improvement in archery. Hosea, a contemporary, speaks of the bow as the national weapon of Israel (2Sa 1:5,7) . The most skilled bowmen of antiquity were the Assyrians (compare Isa 5:28; 37:33). From Assyrian reliefs it seems that it was their practice to overwhelm their enemies with the bow, and to use sword and spear only when the foe had been demoralized and put to flight.
See ARCHERY.
George B. Eager
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.