Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'spear' occurs 46 times in the standard works.

20 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'spear' in the standard works and contain 43.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 23:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

 23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.




1 Chr. 11:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 8:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 26:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 26:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 45 17 62
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 13 1 14
2 Sam. 11 0 11
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 8 0 8
2 Chr. 1 4 5
Neh. 0 3 3
Job 3 1 4
Ps. 2 2 4
Isa. 0 1 1
Jer. 1 1 2
Ezek. 0 1 1
Joel 0 1 1
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 1 1 2
BM 0 2 2
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 46 20 66

2 Sam. 1:6
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

2 Sam. 2:23
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

2 Sam. 21:16
And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

2 Sam. 21:19
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2 Sam. 23:7
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

2 Sam. 23:8
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

2 Sam. 23:18
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

2 Sam. 23:21
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.