19 Best Bible Verses About Arrows

Update on by Pastor Jack Wellman

The Bible references arrows several times throughout the Bible. Here are our 19 best Bible verses about arrows for you to study how the Bible uses the word arrows both figuratively and literally.

Enjoy these 19 best Bible verses about arrows!

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Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.
- Psalm 127:4
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who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
- Psalm 64:3
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for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
- Psalm 11:2
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Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
- Zechariah 9:14
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when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.
- Ezekiel 5:16
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For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
- Psalm 38:2
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There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
- Psalm 76:3
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he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
- Lamentations 3:12
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You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
- Psalm 91:5
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Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
- Jeremiah 9:8
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A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- Proverbs 25:18
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But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.
- Psalm 64:7
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The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.
- Psalm 77:17
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For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 6:4
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My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalm 57:4
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“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;
- Deuteronomy 32:23
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in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
- Job 34:6
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In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
- Ephesians 6:16
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Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.
- Psalm 45:5
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Total Quotes Found: 19

5 Stories From The Bible About Arrows

Here are 5 stories from the Bible about arrows.

His Quiver Full

The phrase, “He’s got his quiver full of arrows” comes straight from Scripture where the psalmist wrote, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate” (Psalm 127:3-5).  What man or woman wouldn’t be blessed since children is essentially a gift from God (Psalm 127:3-4).

His Victory

Right after the Lord delivered David out of the enemies hands, he wrote that God “sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and routed them” (2 Samuel 22:15), so the victory belonged to the Lord and not to David.  The “arm of flesh” will fail us every time (Jeremiah 17:5), because as God says, it is “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6).

Facing Mischief

There are all kinds of mischief out there today: Scams, schemes, defrauding, phishing, and such as this, so we’ve got to be careful, but the psalmist worried little about his own life, saying even “Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed. For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows” (Psalm 21:11-12).  That’s looking danger right in the eye and not blinking, but it’s only because of the One Who is with us, being greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

A Random Arrow

God was going to deal with Israel’s King Jehoshaphat and cut off his reign, so even though the king was heavily armored, “a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate” (1 Kings 22:34a).  The point is this; the king may have felt protected by his own armor, but it is God alone Who protects us.  It might have seemed that the arrow found the king by chance, but nothing happens that is outside of the will of God, and this was His will.

Shattering His Adversaries

We know from the story of the Exodus, that nothing is too hard for God, for “God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows” (Numbers 24:8).  Notice that these are “his arrows” and not the arrows of man, therefore, it is to God be the glory for all of the marvelous things He has done (Psalm 115:1).

Arrows are often signs of strength, power, and reach, and God has all three; He alone is omnipotent and sends the arrows where He wills, and from history we know that God sometimes uses nations to discipline or punish other nations, as He did with ancient Israel.

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