11And 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.
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Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)Here we have, I. The preparation which the Ammonites made for war, 2 Sam. 10:6. They saw they had made themselves very odious to David and obnoxious to his just displeasure. This they might easily have foreseen when they abused his ambassadors, which was no other than a challenge to war, and a bold defiance of him. Yet, it seems, they had not considered how unable they were, with their thousands,…
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