1 Samuel 23:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Samuel 23:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 35:3-4
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. …
Hebrews 12:12-13
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; …
Job 4:3-4
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. …
2 Timothy 2:1
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

Here is, I. David absconding. He abode in a wilderness, in a mountain (1 Sam. 23:14), in a wood, 1 Sam. 23:15. We must here, 1. Commend his eminent virtues, his humility, modesty, fidelity to his prince, and patient attendance on the providence of his God, that he did not draw up his forces against Saul, fight him in the field, or surprise him by some stratagem or other, and so avenge his own quar…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-17. Jonathan went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God--by the recollection of their mutual covenant. What a victory over natural feelings and lower considerations must the faith of Jonathan have won, before he could seek such an interview and give utterance to such sentiments! To talk with calm and assured confidence of himself and family being superseded by the man who was…