2 Samuel 2:7

2:7 Now be courageous ¹  and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

2 Samuel 2:1

David is Anointed King

2:1 Afterward David inquired of the Lord, “Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” The Lord told him, “Go up.” David asked, “Where should I go?” The Lord replied, ²  “To Hebron.”

2 Samuel 11:10

11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ³  God will punish me severely, ⁴  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day, “The king is grieved over his son.”

2 Samuel 1:5

1:5 David said to the young man ⁵  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ⁶ 

Ezra 6:22

6:22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion ⁷  of the king of Assyria ⁸  toward them, so that he assisted ⁹  them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

Haggai 1:13-14

1:13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s word to the people: ¹⁰  “I am with you!” says the Lord. 1:14 So the Lord energized and encouraged ¹¹  Zerubbabel ¹²  son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, ¹³  and the whole remnant of the people. ¹⁴  They came and worked on the temple of their God, the Lord who rules over all.

Ephesians 6:10

Exhortations for Spiritual Warfare

6:10 Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

Philippians 2:13

2:13 for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “let your hands be strong.”

[2:1]  ² tn Heb “he said.” The referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[19:13]  ³ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[1:5]  ⁵ tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.

[1:5]  ⁶ tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”

[6:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “heart.”

[6:22]  ⁸ sn The expression “king of Assyria” is anachronistic, since Assyria fell in 612 b.c., long before the events of this chapter. Perhaps the expression is intended subtly to contrast earlier kings of Assyria who were hostile toward Israel with this Persian king who showed them favor.

[6:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “to strengthen their hands.”

[1:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, said by the message of the Lord to the people.” The Hebrew is highly repetitive; in keeping with contemporary English style this has been simplified in the translation.

[1:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “stirred up” (as in many English versions). Only one verb appears in the Hebrew text, but the translation “energized and encouraged” brings out its sense in this context. Cf. TEV “inspired”; NLT “sparked the enthusiasm of”; CEV “made everyone eager to work.”

[1:14]  ¹² tn Heb “the spirit of Zerubbabel” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest” (as in many English versions), but this is subject to misunderstanding. See the note on the name “Jehozadak” at the end of v. 1.

[1:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the spirit of all the remnant of the people.” The Hebrew phrase שְׁאֵרִית הָעָם (shÿ’erit ha’am) in this postexilic context is used as a technical term to refer to the returned remnant; see the note on the phrase “the whole remnant of the people” in v. 12.