TSK · 2 Samuel 3:1

And there was an exceeding cruell battel that same day: For Abner and the men of Israel fell before the seruauntes of Dauid.

And Dauid prospered and grewe, and ye Lord God of hoastes was with him.

And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam all their lyues.

And there was warre betweene Asa & Baasa king of Israel all their dayes.

And tolde Zares his wyfe and all his friendes euery thing that had befallen him. Then saide his wise men and Zares his wyfe vnto him: If it be Mardocheus of the seede of the Iewes, before who thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger.

They wyl set forward from a stoute courage to a stoute courage: that the God of Gods may be seene of them in Sion.

Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without handes, which smote the image vpon his feete that were of iron & clay, and brake them to peeces.

For I am come to set a man at varyaunce agaynst his father, & the daughter agaynst her mother, and the daughter in lawe agaynst her mother in lawe.

For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly places.