¹ And when `Ish-bosheth', Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

⁴ Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

²⁴ We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, `and' pangs as of a woman in travail.

⁷ Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

² Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

³ And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹⁶ In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.

⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, `and' pangs as of a woman in travail.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

⁹ For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, `O God', strengthen thou my hands.

² and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

²⁷ And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.