¹⁸ and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in ^(A)the book of Jashar.

¹⁸ The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of men of valor, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were learned in the ways of battle, were 44,760, who ^(A)went out for military duty.

² They were equipped with bows, ^(A)using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and to shoot arrows from the bow; ^(B)they were Saul’s relatives from Benjamin.

⁸ Now Asa had a military force of ^(A)300,000 from Judah, bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 from Benjamin, bearing shields and wielding bows; all of them were mighty men of valor.

¹⁴ Moreover, Uzziah prepared ^[a]for all the army shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and stones for slings.

Sanballat and Tobiah Mock the Jews’ Work

4 ^[a]Now it happened that when ^(A)Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and very vexed and mocked the Jews.