2 Samuel 4:1

⁴Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

²⁴We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

¹⁶In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

²⁷When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.

⁹For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

⁴³The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

³Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

²“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.” ³When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

²I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,