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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Be of good
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This is a very animating address, and equal to any thing of the kind in ancient or modern times. Ye fight pro aris et focis; for every good, sacred and civil; for God, for your families, and for your countries. Such harangues, especially in very trying circumstances, are very natural, and may perhaps be found in the records of every nation. Several instances might be quoted from Roman and Grecian history; but few are more remarkable than that of Tyrtaeus, the lame Athenian poet, to whom the command of the army was given in one of the Messenian wars. The Spartans had at that time suffered great losses, and all their stratagems proved ineffectual, so that they began to despair of success; when the poet, by his lectures on honour and courage, delivered in moving verse to the army, ravished them to such a degree with the thoughts of dying for their country, that, rushing on with a furious transport to meet their enemies, they gave them an entire overthrow, and by one decisive battle brought the war to a happy con |
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1Sa 4:9; 1Ch 19:13; 1Cr 16:13 |
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the LORD
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2Sa 16:10,11; Jdg 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; Job 1:21 |
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1Sa 4:9 |
Be 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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1Ch 19:13 |
Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight. |
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1Cr 16:13 |
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. |
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2Sa 16:10 |
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? |
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2Sa 16:11 |
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now [may this] Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. |
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Jdg 10:15 |
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. |
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1Sa 3:18 |
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. |
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Job 1:21 |
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 10:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/10/12.html>.
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