(embroil). Primitive Hebrew weapons were clubs, arrows, slings, swords, and spears. No army divisions except those indicated by the tribes. The contests of this period often hand-to-hand and brutal (2 Sam. 1:23; 2:18; 1 Chron. 12:8; 2 Chron. 13:17). Many of the modern stratagems employed, as the double attack (Gen. 14:15); ambush (Josh. 8:12); false retreat (Judg. 20:37); night attack (2 Kings 7:12). Sometimes battles were settled by single-handed combats (1 Sam. 17; 2 Sam. 2:15-16; 1 Chron. 11:6). King David’s army was divided into regularly disciplined and officered bands under a general-in-chief (2 Sam. 18:1-2; 23:8-39; 1 Chron. 11:25-47; 12; 27). He introduced the heavier weapons, such as catapults and battering-rams for siege-work and chariots for fieldwork (2 Sam. 8:4). Soldiers killed in action were plundered (1 Sam. 31:8); survivors were mutilated or killed (Judg. 1:6; 9:45; 2 Sam. 12:31; 2 Chron. 25:12); or carried into captivity (Num. 31:26).