1 Samuel 4:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be strong, O Philistines, be men! Do not be servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you: go forward to the fight without fear.

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  • Judg 13:1 : 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.
  • Eph 6:10-11 : 10 Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. 11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
  • 2 Sam 10:12 : 12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things; 48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
  • Judg 10:7 : 7 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

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  • 1 Sam 17:8-11
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    8 He took up his position and in a loud voice said to the armies of Israel, Why have you come out to make war? Am I not a Philistine and you servants of Saul? Send out a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

    9 If he is able to have a fight with me and overcome me, then we will be your servants: but if I am able to overcome him, then you will be our servants and do work for us.

    10 And the Philistine said, I have put to shame the armies of Israel this day; give me a man so that we may have a fight together.

    11 And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.

  • 1 Sam 4:6-8
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    6 And the Philistines, hearing the noise of their cry, said, What is this great cry among the tents of the Hebrews? Then it became clear to them that the ark of the Lord had come to the tent-circle.

    7 And the Philistines, full of fear, said, God has come into their tents. And they said, Trouble is ours! for never before has such a thing been seen.

    8 Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

  • 1 Sam 4:1-2
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    1 Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.

    2 And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 17:26
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    26 And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

  • 1 Sam 7:7-8
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    7 Now when the Philistines had news that the children of Israel had come together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the children of Israel, hearing of it, were full of fear.

    8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
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    1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
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    52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 17:32-33
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    32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.

    33 And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1 Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

  • 1 Sam 17:44-48
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    44 And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.

    45 Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.

    46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;

    47 And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.

    48 Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.

  • 1 Sam 17:2-3
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    2 And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

    3 The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  • 1 Cor 16:13
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    13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22 And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

  • 1 Chr 19:13
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    13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

  • 1 Sam 13:5-6
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    5 And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

    6 When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

  • 2 Sam 10:12
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    12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
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    11 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and went after the Philistines, attacking them till they came under Beth-car.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
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    1 Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3 And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41 And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
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    21 And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.

  • 1 Chr 14:9
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    9 Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

  • Exod 10:11
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    11 Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.

  • Joel 3:10
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    10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8 And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Sam 29:4
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    4 But the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him, and said to him, Make the man go back to the place you have given him; do not let him go down with us to the fight, or he may be turned against us and be false to us: for how will this man make peace with his lord? will it not be with the heads of these men?

  • Judg 15:9
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    9 Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.

  • 1 Sam 12:9
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    9 But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.

  • 1 Sam 17:36
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    36 Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

  • 1 Sam 28:19
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    19 And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
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    1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.