9Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
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Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. …
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The first words of this paragraph, which relate to Samuel, that his word came to all Israel , seem not to have any reference to the following story, as if it was by any direction of his that the Israelites went out against the Philistines. Had they consulted him, though but newly initiated as a prophet, his counsel might have stood them in more stead than the presence of the ark did; but perhaps t…
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