Quotes About Courage

For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ëI will build a house for you.í Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.

Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,

And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the kingís table, and he was lame in both feet.

On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.

The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.

When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

And he placed the rest of the forces under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.

“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.

Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”

So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.

When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they regrouped.

But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his masterís servants; he did not go down to his house.

So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.

And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of Davidís servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,

Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?í If so, then you are to say, ëYour servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.í”