1 Samuel 4:9

New Century Version

Be brave, Philistines! Fight like men! In the past they were our slaves. So fight like men, or we will become their slaves.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:12

Be strong. We must fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what he thinks is right.”

Isaiah 14:2

Nations will take the Israelites back to their land. Then those men and women from the other nations will become slaves to Israel in the Lord’s land. In the past the Israelites were their slaves, but now the Israelites will defeat those nations and rule over them.

Isaiah 33:1

How terrible it will be for you who destroy others but have not been destroyed yet. How terrible it will be for you, traitor, whom no one has turned against yet. When you stop destroying, others will destroy you. When you stop turning against others, they will turn against you.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be alert. Continue strong in the faith. Have courage, and be strong.

Judges 10:7

So the Lord was angry with them and handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites.

Judges 13:1

Again the people of Israel did what the Lord said was wrong. So he handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

1 Samuel 14:21

Earlier, there were Hebrews who had served the Philistines and had stayed in their camp, but now they joined the Israelites with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 4:8

How terrible it will be for us! Who can save us from these powerful gods? They are the ones who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of disasters in the desert.