encouraged And the people the men of Israel {encouraged} themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day. encouraged <1SA30 -6> And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David {encouraged} himself in the LORD his God. encouraged <2CH31 -4> Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be {encouraged} in the law of the LORD. encouraged <2CH35 -2> And he set the priests in their charges, and {encouraged} them to the service of the house of the LORD, encouraged So the carpenter {encouraged} the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved. ~~~~~~