Lexicon :: Strong's G3696 - hoplon

“Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship the LORD our God. We will not know what we will use to worship the LORD until we get there.”

“You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.

“All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

“You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.[fn]

His spear shaft was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed fifteen pounds.[fn] In addition, a shield-bearer was walking in front of him.

He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; nearly four pounds[fn] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

He seized the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

Your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots, horses, a fortified city, and weaponry, so when this letter arrives

Their father had given them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuable things, along with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

The priest Jehoiada gave to the commanders of hundreds King David’s spears, shields, and quivers[fn] that were in God’s temple.

Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken-down wall and heightening the towers and the other outside wall. He repaired the supporting terraces of the city of David, and made an abundance of weapons and shields.

who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried the loads worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

For you, LORD, bless the righteous one;

you surround him with favor like a shield.

Take your shields ​— ​large and small —

and come to my aid.

He makes wars cease throughout the earth.

He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces;

he sets wagons ablaze.

I am surrounded by lions;

I lie down among devouring lions —

people whose teeth are spears and arrows,

whose tongues are sharp swords.

That will please the LORD more than an ox,

more than a bull with horns and hooves.

There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,

the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.Selah

He will cover you with his feathers;

you will take refuge under his wings.

His faithfulness will be a protective shield.

Stay away from a foolish person;

you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

“‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands, those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[fn] who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.

“and tell them, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will place his throne on these stones that I have embedded, and he will pitch his pavilion over them.

Deploy small shields and large;

approach for battle!

Rise up, you cavalry!

Race furiously, you chariots!

Let the warriors march out —

Cush and Put,

who are able to handle shields,

and the men of Lud,

who are able to handle and string the bow.

At the sound of the stomping hooves of his stallions,

the rumbling of his chariots,

and the clatter of their wheels,

fathers will not turn back for their sons.

They will be utterly helpless[fn]

Don’t let the archer string his bow;

don’t let him put on[fn] his armor.

Don’t spare her young men;

completely destroy her entire army!

Raise up a signal flag

against the walls of Babylon;

fortify the watch post;

set the watchmen in place;

prepare the ambush.

For the LORD has both planned and accomplished

what he has threatened

against those who live in Babylon.

“He will slaughter your villages on the mainland with the sword. He will set up siege works, build a ramp, and raise a wall of shields against you.

“He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

“They do not lie down

with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,[fn]

who went down to Sheol

with their weapons of war,

whose swords were placed under their heads[fn]

and their shields[fn]

rested on their bones,

although the terror of these warriors

was once in the land of the living.

“ ‘Then the inhabitants of Israel’s cities will go out, kindle fires, and burn the weapons ​— ​the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.

They do not push each other;

each proceeds on his own path.

They dodge the arrows, never stopping.

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness:

Look, the days are coming[fn]

when you will be taken away with hooks,

every last one of you with fishhooks.

Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,

for I will make your horns iron

and your hooves bronze

so you can crush many peoples.

Then you[fn] will set apart their plunder

for the LORD,

their wealth for the Lord of the whole earth.

The shields of his[fn] warriors are dyed red;

the valiant men are dressed in scarlet.

The fittings of the chariot flash like fire

on the day of its battle preparations,

and the spears are brandished.

Charging horseman,

flashing sword,

shining spear;

heaps of slain,

mounds of corpses,

dead bodies without end —

they stumble over their dead.

Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,

at the flash of your flying arrows,

at the brightness of your shining spear.