12Be 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Commentary
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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