Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
Then David {H1732} said {H559} unto the messenger {H4397}, Thus shalt thou say {H559} unto Joab {H3097}, Let not this thing {H1697} displease {H3415}{H5869} thee, for the sword {H2719} devoureth {H398} one as well as another {H2090}: make thy battle {H4421} more strong {H2388} against the city {H5892}, and overthrow {H2040} it: and encourage {H2388} thou him.
David said to the messenger, "Tell Yo'av, 'Don't let this matter get you down - the sword devours in one way or another. Intensify your battle against the city, and overthrow it.'And encourage him."
Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
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1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a chance [that] happened to us. -
Ecclesiastes 9:1
¶ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them. -
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead. -
Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! -
Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? -
2 Samuel 12:26
¶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. -
Ecclesiastes 9:11
¶ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.