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** Among other things, Benaiah wrested a spear out of the hands of an Egyptian and killed him with it.
** Perhaps the most famous spear in the New Testament, if not the whole Bible, is the Spear of Destiny. This was thrust into Jesus's side after He died, causing blood and water to come out. It left a mark which, after He came back to life, he showed to the disciples. According to tradition, the blood running down the spear touched the partially-sighted eyes of its wielder, the legionary Longinus, and cured his sight; he became a Christian as a result of this, and the spear is also called the Lance of Longinus.
***Because of course Romans have taken the trouble to save a pilum whose head was probably wreaked (the joining was made of soft metal to keep it from being thrown back). And they would have predicted that the man ''they'' were crucifying would be the basis of a religion that would take over the Roman Empire hundreds of years hence and kept records of where the pilum went.
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