2 Samuel 16:19
And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.
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2 Samuel 16:19
And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.
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Exodus 1:19
And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.
Joshua 2:4
And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;
Joshua 2:5
And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them.
1 Samuel 19:14
And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.
1 Samuel 27:10
And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 17:19
And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
Galatians 2:13
And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.
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Joshua 16:2
And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;
1 Kings 4:16
Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
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2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:3
And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.
2 Samuel 15:4
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!
2 Samuel 15:5
And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.
2 Samuel 15:6
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7
Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:
Psalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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2 Samuel 15:33
David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:
2 Samuel 15:35
And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
2 Samuel 15:36
See, they have with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar; by them you may send word to me of everything which comes to your ears.
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2 Samuel 16:1
And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2
And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.
2 Samuel 16:3
And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.
2 Samuel 16:4
Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!
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2 Samuel 16:5
And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.
2 Samuel 16:6
And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.
2 Samuel 16:7
And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.
2 Samuel 16:10
And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him go on cursing, for the Lord has said, Put a curse on David, and who then may say, Why have you done so?
2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
2 Samuel 16:13
So David and his men went on their way: and Shimei went by the hillside parallel with them, cursing and sending stones and dust at him.
2 Samuel 16:14
And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.
Psalms 7:1
Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite. O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
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2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?
2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:23
In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.
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2 Samuel 17:5
Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.
2 Samuel 17:7
And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.
2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
2 Samuel 17:9
But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.
2 Samuel 17:10
Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.
2 Samuel 17:11
But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
2 Samuel 17:12
Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.
2 Samuel 17:13
And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.
1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
1 Kings 22:13
Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.
Proverbs 27:14
He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
Jeremiah 28:2
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.
Jeremiah 28:3
In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:
Jeremiah 28:4
And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.
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1 Chronicles 27:23
But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.
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1 Chronicles 27:33
And Ahithophel was the king's expert in discussion and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
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Psalms 34:14
Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
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Matthew 6:13
And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
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Luke 24:16
But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.
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Acts 12:22
And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.
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Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
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Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
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