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2 Samuel 17:10

8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

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BSB
Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
KJV
And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
WEB
Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
ASV
And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.
DARBY
and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.
BLB
And even he also, the son of valor whose heart [is] like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt. For all Israel knows that your father [is] a mighty man, and those who are with him [are] sons of valor.
ÅB
og om det så er en djerv mann som har et hjerte som en løve, så vil han dog bli motløs; for hele Israel vet at din far er en helt, og at de som er med ham, er djerve folk.
OTB
Da vil selv den som er modig og har et løvehjerte fullstendig smelte, for hele Israel vet at din far er en mektig mann og de som er med ham er tapre."
B1930
og om det så er en djerv mann som har et hjerte som en løve, så vil han dog bli motløs; for hele Israel vet at din far er en helt, og at de som er med ham, er djerve folk.

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  • Joshua 2:9–11

    And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

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  • 1 Samuel 18:17

    And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

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  • Song of Solomon 3:7

    Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

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  • 2 Samuel 23:20

    And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

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  • Isaiah 13:7

    Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

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  • Deuteronomy 1:28

    Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

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  • 2 Samuel 1:23

    Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

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  • Genesis 49:9

    Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

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