* Be of good.
   This is a very animating address, and equal to any thing of
   the kind in ancient or modern times.  Ye fight {pro aris et
   focis;} for every good, sacred and civil; for God, for your
   families, and for your countries.  Such harangues, especially
   in very trying circumstances, are very natural, and may
   perhaps be found in the records of every nation.  Several
   instances might be quoted from Roman and Grecian history; but
   few are more remarkable than that of Tyrtaeus, the lame
   Athenian poet, to whom the command of the army was given in
   one of the Messenian wars.  The Spartans had at that time
   suffered great losses, and all their stratagems proved
   ineffectual, so that they began to despair of success; when
   the poet, by his lectures on honour and courage, delivered in
   moving verse to the army, ravished them to such a degree with
   the thoughts of dying for their country, that, rushing on with
   a furious transport to meet their enemies, they gave them an
   entire overthrow, and by one decisive battle brought the war
   to a happy conclusion.

  Nu 13:20  De 31:6  Jos 1:6,7,9,18  1Sa 14:6,12  17:32  2Ch 32:7 
  Ne 4:14  Heb 13:6 
 * play.
  1Sa 4:9  1Ch 19:13  1Co 16:13 
 * the Lord.
  16:10,11  Jud 10:15  1Sa 3:18  Job 1:21