Y’all must not lose heart faint, and y’all must not fear the reports that will be heard in the land. For reports will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape-escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul will give up seeking me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
“I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold firmly to my name and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among y’all, where Satan dwells.
The officers are to speak further to the army and say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, or his brother’s heart might melt like his heart.”