And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou shalt help me. But if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
Bear ye one another's burdens; and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.
NOW we that are stronger, 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 thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.
In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us. Our God will fight for us.
And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother, who set them in array against the children of Ammon.
Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.