Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!
Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?”
And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”
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