Equipping, physical

Manual workers are equipped for their tasks

1 Kings 5:13–14 ESV

King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.

See also Ge 4:22; Ge 11:3; Ge 24:15; Ex 25:1–9; 1 Ki 5:10; 1 Ki 19:21; Ezr 1:5–6; Ne 2:7–8

Musicians are equipped to play

Isaiah 30:29 ESV

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

See also Ge 4:21; Jos 6:4; 1 Sa 16:16–18; 1 Ch 25:6–7; Ps 150:3–5; Re 5:8; Re 15:2

Travellers are equipped for their journeys

2 Samuel 12:4 ESV

Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

See also Ge 42:25; Ge 45:19–23; Ne 2:7; Je 9:2; Lk 11:6

Those equipped with signs of authority

Ge 41:42 Joseph; Ge 49:10; Ex 4:17 Moses; Es 3:10 Haman; Es 4:11; Es 5:2; Mt 16:19; Ac 9:2

Equipping for burial

Ge 23:8–9; Mk 14:8; Lk 23:56; Jn 19:38–42

Soldiers are equipped for battle

Israel’s armies

Exodus 13:18 ESV

But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

See also Nu 31:5; Nu 32:20–22; Jos 4:13; Jos 6:8; Jdg 7:16; 1 Sa 17:36–39; 1 Ki 4:26; 1 Ch 12:2; 2 Ch 14:8

David

1 Samuel 17:40 ESV

Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

See also 1 Sa 22:9–10; 2 Sa 22:40

Israel’s enemies

Exodus 14:6–7 ESV

So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

See also 1 Sa 17:5–7; 2 Sa 21:16; Je 6:23; Je 46:4; Je 50:42; Da 11:13; Mt 26:47

Those providing protection are equipped

Ne 4:16–18; Ac 23:23–25