Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant : for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant,.... And not be afraid of the Philistines, who might resent their conduct in taking away from them the bodies of Saul and his sons, whom…
Adam Clarke
Now let your hands be strengthened - David certainly wished to attach the men of Jabesh to his interest; he saw that they were generous and valiant, and must be of great service to him whose part they…
When Saul and Jonathan were dead, though David knew himself anointed to be king, and now saw his way very clear, yet he did not immediately send messengers through all the coasts of Israel to summon…
Cambridge Bible
be ye valiant The following clause, which might be rendered "for thoughyour master Saul is dead, yetthe house of Judah, &c.," makes it plain that David hoped the men of Jabesh would join him, and hold…
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