2 Samuel 3:1

WEB

¹Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

KJV

¹Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

BSB

¹Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

FBV

¹There was a long war between those on the side of Saul and those on the side of David. David's side grew stronger, while Saul's side grew weaker.

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1 Kings 14:30

³⁰There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

Proverbs 4:18-19

¹⁸But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day. ¹⁹The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

2 Samuel 2:17

¹⁷^[+] The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

Job 8:7

⁷Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Job 17:9

⁹Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Psalms 84:7

⁷They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

1 Kings 15:32

³²There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Esther 6:13

¹³Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Galatians 5:17

¹⁷For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.