2 Samuel 10:11

And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

In Context

10And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother, who set them in array against the children of Ammon.

12Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:20In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.

Romans 15:1Now we that are stronger, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Philippians 1:27Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 10:7-15

The Ammonites and Syrians Defeated. ( b. c. 1037.) 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob,… Read the whole commentary →

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