“Then the king of the south ¹  and one of his subordinates ²  will grow strong. His subordinate ³  will resist ⁴  him and will rule a kingdom greater than his. ⁵ 

Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ¹  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ² 

Wisdom gives a wise person more protection ¹  than ten rulers in a city.

I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Omri’s supporters were stronger than those who supported Tibni son of Ginath. Tibni died; Omri became king.

Above the sound of the surging water, ¹  and the mighty waves of the sea, the Lord sits enthroned in majesty. ² 

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. ¹ 

Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ¹ 

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

Stand aside ¹  and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, ²  and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

Whenever Moses would raise his hands, ¹  then Israel prevailed, but whenever he would rest ²  his hands, then Amalek prevailed.

The foreigners ¹  who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. ¹ 

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, ¹  Girgashites, ²  Amorites, ³  Canaanites, ⁴  Perizzites, ⁵  Hivites, ⁶  and Jebusites, ⁷  seven ⁸  nations more numerous and powerful than you –

whose ¹  trust ²  is in something futile, ³  whose security is a spider’s web. ⁴ 

A wise warrior ¹  is strong, ²  and a man of knowledge makes his strength stronger;

He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening ¹  the churches.

So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing in number every day. ¹ 

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee ¹  of a better covenant.