2 Samuel 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword… It is told of Abraham Lincoln that once, when quite a young man, he saw men and women put on the block, exhibited for sale, and bought like cattle. He saw the humbling and degrading familiarities which the buyers took with file human chattels, saw the looks of dumb and piteous agony which stole across the poor black faces as wives were sold away from their husbands, and children torn from their mother's arms; and he forced his way out the ring and with flaming eyes, and voice husky with suppressed passion, said to a companion, gripping him by the arm, "If ever I get a chance to hit at this thing I'll hit hard, by the Eternal God." "My chance has come," he exclaimed, later in life, "and I mean to hit hard." Parallel Verses KJV: He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. |
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