2 Samuel 2:7
Good News Translation
Be strong and brave! Saul your king is dead, and the people of Judah have anointed me as their king."

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

Contemporary English Version
Saul is dead, but the tribe of Judah has made me their king. So be strong and have courage.

New American Bible
So take courage and prove yourselves valiant, for though your lord Saul is dead, the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to be their king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to be their king.

let your

2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

Genesis 15:1 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

1 Samuel 4:9 Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

1 Samuel 31:7,12 And the men of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond the Jordan, seeing that the Israelites were fled, and that Saul was dead, and his sons, forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt there. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

valiant [heb] the sons of valour

Context
David Anointed King of Judah
6And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing. 7Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to be their king.
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:6
And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.

2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,

Nehemiah 2:18
And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.

2 Samuel 2:6
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