Arrow

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(A weapon)

Used in hunting

• Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
• Genesis 27:3 Take your weapons — your quiver and bow — and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.

Used in war

• 1 Samuel 31:3 When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
• 2 Samuel 22:15 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
• 1 Kings 22:34 However, a certain man drew his bow without taking special aim, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So the king said to his charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”
• 2 Kings 19:32 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
• Psalm 7:13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
• Isaiah 22:3 All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
• Jeremiah 51:3 Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Divination by

• Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Shot by Jonathan as a sign to David

• 1 Samuel 20:20–42 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target. Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there…

Shot by Joash as a sign against the Syrians

• 2 Kings 13:14–19 When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows. Then Elisha sai…

Figurative

• Numbers 24:8 God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
• Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
• Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
• Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Psalm 11:2 For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
• Psalm 21:12 For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
• Psalm 38:2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
• Psalm 45:5 Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
• Psalm 57:4 My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Psalm 58:7 May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.