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2 Samuel 19:6
For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.

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Numbers 23:11
Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

2 Samuel 3:8
And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.

John 18:35
Pilate said, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have given you into my hands: what have you done?

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2 Samuel 3:12
And Abner sent men to David at Hebron, saying, Make an agreement with me, and I will give you my support in getting all Israel on your side.

2 Samuel 20:1
Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

2 Samuel 20:2
So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

2 Samuel 20:4
Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

2 Samuel 20:5
So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.

2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.

2 Samuel 20:7
So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.

2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20:11
And one of Joab's young men, taking his place at Amasa's side, said, Whoever is for Joab and for David, let him go after Joab!

2 Samuel 20:12
And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.

2 Samuel 20:13
When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.

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2 Samuel 3:25
Is it not clear to you that Abner, the son of Ner, came with deceit to get knowledge of your going out and your coming in and of all you are doing?

Job 34:18
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

Proverbs 13:5
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Acts 23:5
And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people.

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2 Samuel 3:29
May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

2 Samuel 3:30
So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

2 Samuel 8:16
And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;

2 Samuel 13:1
Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

2 Samuel 13:20
And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.

2 Samuel 13:21
But when King David had news of all these things he was very angry; but he did not make trouble for Amnon his son, for he was dear to David, being his oldest son.

2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

2 Samuel 13:23
Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.

2 Samuel 13:24
And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?

2 Samuel 13:25
And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 13:26
Then Absalom said, If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Is there any reason for him to go with you?

2 Samuel 13:27
But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.

2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

2 Samuel 13:38
And the king was sorrowing for his son all the time.

2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

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2 Samuel 12:28
So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.

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2 Samuel 18:5
And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.

2 Samuel 18:11
And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?

2 Samuel 18:12
And the man said to Joab, Even if you gave me a thousand bits of silver, I would not put out my hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king gave orders to you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care that the young man Absalom is not touched.

1 Kings 1:7
And he had talk with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they were on his side and gave him their support.

1 Kings 1:18
And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge;

1 Kings 1:19
And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant.

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2 Samuel 18:20
And Joab said, You will take no news today; another day you may give him the news, but you will take no news today, because the king's son is dead.

2 Samuel 18:26
Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.

1 Kings 9:12
But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

Jeremiah 18:4
And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

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2 Samuel 19:3
And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.

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2 Samuel 19:9
And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:10
And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.

1 Chronicles 3:2
The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;

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Psalms 27:10
When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

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Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

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Isaiah 49:15
Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

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