16And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. …
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: …
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-23)Here is, 1. The great force which the king of Syria sent to seize Elisha. He found out where he was, at Dothan (2 Kgs. 6:13), which was not far from Samaria; thither he sent a great host, who were to come upon him by night, and to bring him dead or alive, 2 Kgs. 6:14. Perhaps he had heard that when only one captain and his fifty men were sent to take Elijah they were baffled in the attempt, and th…
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