2 Samuel 2:17

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”

When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.

Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.