pleasant: or, sweet, 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 20:2
they were: 1 Samuel 31:1-5
swifter: 2 Samuel 2:18; Deuteronomy 28:49; 1 Chronicles 12:8; Job 9:26; Jeremiah 4:13; Lamentations 4:19
stronger: 2 Samuel 23:20; Judges 14:18; Proverbs 30:30
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2 Samuel 1:23
2 Samuel 1:23
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