And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.

Blessed be Jehovah my rock, Who teacheth my hands to war, And my fingers to fight:

Wrought

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

Obtained

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee a house.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Stopped

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.

And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

General references

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.