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arrows in the Bible

At first arrow were made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron or bronze.

Arrows are sometimes figuratively used for lightning (Deuteronomy 32:23, 42; Psalm 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zechariah 9:14).

Arrow were used in war as well as in the hunting of game (Genesis 27:3; 49:23).

They were also used in divination (Ezek. 21:21).

The word “arrow” is frequently used as a symbol of…

• calamity or disease inflicted by God

  I will heap calamities on them;
  I will exhaust My arrows on them. —Deuteronomy 32:23

  When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine… —Ezek. 5:16 excerpt

  The man Job wrongly assumed that God was attacking him, when it was actually Satan.

  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
  Their poison my spirit drinks;
  The horrors of God are arranged against me. —Job 6:4

  The Psalmist said,

  For Your arrows have pressed deep into me,
  And Your hand has pressed down upon me. —Psalm 38:2

• some sudden danger (Psalm 91:5)

• bitter words

  …They aimed bitter speech as their arrow —Psalm 64:3

• false testimony

  Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
  Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor. —Proverbs 25:18

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