2. SPEARS. a. chanith, thus named as being flexible: it is the word mostly used for the spear. 1 Sam. 13: 19; Ps. 57: 4. It is this weapon that will be beaten into pruning hooks. Isa. 2: 4; Micah 4: 3. b. kidon, a smaller kind of lance, or javelin. Joshua 8: 18, 26; Job 41: 29; Jer. 6: 23. c. tselatsal, harpoon. Job 41: 7. d. qayin, lance, 2 Sam. 21: 16. e. romach, spear used by heavy-armed troops, the iron head of a spear. Judges 5: 8, etc. The pruning hooks are to be beaten into spears in the time of God's judgements. Joel 3: 10.

2. SPEARS. a. chanith, thus named as being flexible: it is the word mostly used for the spear. 1 Sam. 13: 19; Ps. 57: 4. It is this weapon that will be beaten into pruning hooks. Isa. 2: 4; Micah 4: 3. b. kidon, a smaller kind of lance, or javelin. Joshua 8: 18, 26; Job 41: 29; Jer. 6: 23. c. tselatsal, harpoon. Job 41: 7. d. qayin, lance, 2 Sam. 21:

16. e. romach, spear used by heavy-armed troops, the iron head of a spear. Judges 5: 8, etc. The pruning hooks are to be beaten into spears in the time of God's judgements. Joel 3: 10.

3 . BOW, from which arrows are discharged, qesheth, generally made of wood, but sometimes of steel or brass. Job 20: 24. It is constantly found in the O.T. from Genesis to Zechariah. It is used to express punishment from God, Lam. 2: 4; Lam. 3: 12; and of men to show their power to injure. Ps. 37: 14, 15. 'A deceitful bow' expresses a man who fails just when his aid is most needed, as when a bow breaks suddenly. Ps. 78: 57; Hosea 7: 16.

4. The SLING, by which stones are discharged, qela. It was by means of this that David smote Goliath. 1 Sam. 17: 40, 49, 50. Of the Benjamites there were 700 men lefthanded; "every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss." Judges 20: 16. (In Prov. 26: 8 occurs another word for sling margemah, but the passage is considered better translated "as he that putteth a precious stone in a heap of stones," as in the margin.)

5. 'ENGINES,' with which Uzziah shot arrows and great stones. 2 Chr. 26: 15.

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