Passage cross-references.

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. …