Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 28 · 1882
The Use of the Bow
2 Samuel 1:17-18
THE translators have acted very properly in inserting the words, “the use of,” for that is what the passage means; but if you read it without those words the sense is still the same,— “he bade them teach the children of Judah the bow,” that is to say, how to use the bow.