In a Warrior's Quiver by D. L. Crager

Author:D. L. Crager
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2023-10-01T20:55:13+00:00

Chapter 11

The half-moon angling low in the night sky was the only thing lighting up the path for Uriah, his son, and twelve well-trained soldiers. They were instructed to go south from Bethlehem in the middle of the night to sneak around the hillsides in the direction from which the king and the warrior sons had come. This was to make sure they were not being flanked, coming around from behind when the battle started in the morning. At the same time, another mighty warrior, Eliam, his warrior son, and a group of twelve soldiers were sent in the other direction going north of Bethlehem to do the same.

It concerned David that the young warriors and his guard ran into so many Philistine sentinels. What the guard told them he saw on a horse in the distance when the young warriors were attacked also concerned David. It further worried him when he thought about the four they killed after going through the eye of the moon.

Before they began, Uriah thoroughly went through anticipated expectations under his command with the twelve soldiers. He then reviewed what they had been training for with Shuriah—how to be a perfect shadow, moving when he moved, stopping, running, and doing all the body motions his father in front of him did. He was to stay a sword’s length behind him at all times unless they needed to change up strategies or fight back-to-back.

Uriah himself had to not only retrain how he thought and moved during battle so as not to harm Shuriah but also how to utilize the skills his warrior son had that made them both more effective. He kept in mind that the whole purpose of the warrior son shadowing a warrior father was to train him to be extraordinary at killing while not getting hurt in the process.

The responsibility of the warrior son was to oversee the space between his father and himself, so his father could focus ahead of and beside himself while the boy kept watch behind him. The young warrior would listen carefully past the loud roar of fighting for specific commands, such as positions or maneuvers the father would yell for them to do, which would look like one warrior with four arms and legs.

The weapons of choice the mighty warriors loved their sons to have were bows and arrows and long spears. The boys were always trained not to shoot the man in front of their father but the man just behind that man. This ensured the mighty warrior would never be outmanned with too many coming at him at once.

With the long spears, the boys would keep the enemy at bay, giving the warrior father time to react. The spear was so long that when his father was engaged with his sword or in hand-to-hand combat, the boy would hold the butt of the spear on the ground on his father’s side, rotating with the movement of his father while staying behind him. The long spear

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