2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shall you say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another: make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and so encourage him.

Joshua 7:8-9

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!

1 Samuel 6:9

And see, if it goes up by the way of its own land to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us: it was by chance that it happened to us.

2 Samuel 12:26

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.

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Summary

Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

Bible References

For the sword

Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goes up by the way of its own land to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us: it was by chance that it happened to us.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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2 Samuel 12:26
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.