2 Samuel 10:11

And he says, “If Aram is stronger than I, then you have been for salvation to me, and if the sons of Ammon are stronger than you, then I have come to give salvation to you;

Literal Standard Version

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 he has given the rest of the people into the hand of his brother Abishai, and sets in array to meet the sons of Ammon.

12be strong and strengthen yourself for our people, and for the cities of our God, and YHWH does that which is good in His eyes.”

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:20in the place that you hear the voice of the horn there you are gathered to us; our God fights for us.”

Romans 15:1And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the weaknesses of the powerless, and not to please ourselves;

Philippians 1:27Only conduct yourselves worthily of the good news of the Christ, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

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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