Verse 11

Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me as far as Edom?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 44:9 : 9 In God we make our boast all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.
  • Num 10:9 : 9 When you go into battle in your land against an enemy who oppresses you, you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you might be remembered before the LORD your God and be saved from your enemies.
  • Deut 20:3-4 : 3 He shall say to them: 'Hear, O Israel, you are about to go into battle against your enemies. Do not let your hearts be faint; do not be afraid, panic, or dread them.' 4 For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and to give you victory.
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David said to the men standing with him, 'What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?'
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 'Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.'
  • 1 Sam 29:1-9 : 1 The Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel. 2 The Philistine rulers marched with their units of hundreds and thousands, and David and his men were marching at the rear with Achish. 3 The Philistine commanders asked, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" Achish replied to the Philistine commanders, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me for days or years? I have found no fault in him from the day he defected to me until now." 4 But the Philistine commanders were angry with him and said to him, "Send the man back! Let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go with us into battle, or he might become our adversary during the fighting. How better to regain his master's favor than with the heads of our men? 5 Isn't this the David they sang about in their dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'? 6 So Achish called David and said to him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your conduct with me in the camp has been good in my eyes. I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the rulers don’t approve of you. 7 Now turn back and go in peace, so you don’t displease the Philistine rulers. 8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I first came to you until now, that I may not go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?" 9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are as pleasing in my eyes as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the Philistine commanders have said, 'He must not go up with us into battle.' 10 Now get up early in the morning, along with your master's servants who have come with you, and leave as soon as it is light. 11 So David and his men rose early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
  • 2 Chr 13:12 : 12 Now look, God is with us at our head, and His priests with their trumpets are ready to sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
  • 2 Chr 20:15 : 15 He said: 'Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.'