A pronouncement concerning Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. Egypt’s worthless idols will tremble before him, and Egypt will lose heart.
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. Benaiah killed two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
Saul told David, ‘Here is my eldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.’ But Saul was thinking, ‘I don’t need to raise a hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.’
Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart, , saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.”
He’s probably already hiding in one of the caves or some other place. If some of our troops fall first, someone is sure to hear and say, “There’s been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.”
I have appointed a sword for slaughter at all their gates, so that their hearts may melt and many may stumble. Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
One of the young men answered, ‘I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is also a valiant man, a warrior, eloquent, handsome, and the Lord is with him.’