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     * 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|