2 Samuel 2:7

Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to be their king.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

In Context

6And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will, requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.

8But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him about through the camp?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:9Take courage and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

1 Samuel 31:12All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Bethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there:

2 Samuel 10:12Be 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.

1 Corinthians 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith,do manfully, and be strengthened.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 2:2-8

David Made King at Hebron. ( b. c. 1053.) 1 And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the Lord , saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron. 2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. 3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. 4 And the men… Read the whole commentary →

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