1 Samuel 4:9

New English Translation

Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:12

Be strong! Let’s fight bravely for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! The Lord will do what he decides is best!”

Isaiah 14:2

Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Isaiah 33:1

The destroyer is as good as dead, you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish deceiving, others will deceive you!

1 Corinthians 16:13

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

Judges 10:7

The Lord was furious with Israel and turned them over to the Philistines and Ammonites.

Judges 13:1

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

1 Samuel 14:21

The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 4:8

Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!