1 Samuel 23:16

1 Samuel 23:16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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Genesis 48:2
Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Judges 7:11
You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

Ezra 6:22
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Nehemiah 6:9
For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Ephesians 3:16
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

2 Timothy 2:1
You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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Exodus 18:17
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

Exodus 18:18
You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

Exodus 18:19
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

Exodus 18:20
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 18:22
Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

Exodus 18:23
If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 18:24
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

Ezra 10:2
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 10:3
Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Ezra 10:4
Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

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Ruth 1:16
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

2 Samuel 9:2
There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”

2 Samuel 9:3
The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”

2 Samuel 9:4
The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”

2 Samuel 9:5
Then king David sent and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

2 Samuel 9:6
Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth?” He answered, “Behold, your servant!”

2 Samuel 9:7
David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

2 Samuel 9:8
He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.

2 Samuel 9:10
Till the land for him—you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:11
Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table like one of the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 9:12
Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All who lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.

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1 Samuel 19:1
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

1 Samuel 19:3
I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”

1 Samuel 19:4
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

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1 Samuel 19:19
Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 23:1
David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”

1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”

1 Samuel 23:4
Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake.

1 Samuel 30:8
David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

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1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”

1 Samuel 20:13
Yahweh do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you as he has been with my father.

1 Samuel 20:30
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

1 Samuel 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

1 Samuel 20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

1 Samuel 20:34
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

1 Samuel 20:41
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most.

1 Samuel 22:8
Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

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1 Samuel 20:23
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”

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1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23:24
They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

1 Samuel 23:25
Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

1 Samuel 26:1
The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

1 Samuel 26:2
Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 26:3
Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

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2 Samuel 9:13
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

1 Kings 2:7
But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Proverbs 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

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2 Samuel 15:28
Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”

Psalms 22:11
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Psalms 22:13
They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Psalms 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalms 119:150
They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Matthew 26:46
Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”

Matthew 26:47
While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

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2 Chronicles 12:1
When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.

2 Chronicles 17:1
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:8
The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he grew exceedingly strong.

2 Chronicles 32:5
He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Ezekiel 7:27
The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

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Job 16:5
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

Psalms 37:24
Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4:11
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:12
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

Luke 22:32
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Luke 22:43
An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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Joshua 1:18
Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

Joshua 2:24
They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

1 Samuel 11:9
They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’ ” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

1 Samuel 11:10
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”

2 Samuel 10:11
He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

2 Samuel 10:12
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

Psalms 41:3
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

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Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Acts 28:15
From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

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Isaiah 17:9
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

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2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 2:11
This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

Hebrews 10:24
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

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Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”

Matthew 25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Mark 9:41
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

John 19:26
Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

John 19:27
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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