Quotes About Preparation

and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.

The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.

Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.”

They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.

and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.

Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your masterís servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”

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.

Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”

Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

So Solomonís and Hiramís builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a manís hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ëPrepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.í”

And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ëThe one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.í”

Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”