1 Samuel 24 Cross References - Brenton

^{1 (24:2)} And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David is in the wilderness of Engaddi. ^{2 (24:3)} And he took with him three thousand men, chosen out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddaeem. ^{3 (24:4)} And he came to the flocks of sheep that were by the way, and there was a cave there; and Saul went in to make preparation, and David and his men were sitting in the inner part of the cave. ^{4 (24:5)} And the men of David said to him, Behold, this is the day of which the Lord spoke to thee, that he would deliver thine enemy into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as it is good in thy sight. So David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's garment secretly. ^{5 (24:6)} And it came to pass after this that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off the skirt of his garment. ^{6 (24:7)} And David said to his men, The Lord forbid it me, that I should do this ting to my lord the anointed of the Lord, to lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the Lord. ^{7 (24:8)} So David persuaded his men by his words, and did not suffer them to arise and slay Saul: and Saul arose and went his way. ^{8 (24:9)} And David rose up and went after him out of the cave: and David cried after Saul, saying, My lord, O king! and Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance to him. ^{9 (24:10)} And David said to Saul, Why dost thou hearken to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks thy life? ^{10 (24:11)} Behold, thine eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered thee this day into my hands in the cave; and I would not slay thee, but spared thee, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. ^{11 (24:12)} And behold, the skirt of thy mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not slay thee: know then and see to-day, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against thee, yet thou layest snares for my soul to take it. ^{12 (24:13)} The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord requite thee on thyself: but my hand shall not be upon thee. ^{13 (24:14)} As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon thee. ^{14 (24:15)} And now after whom dost thou come forth, O king of Israel? After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, and after a flea? ^{15 (24:16)} The Lord be judge and umpire between me and thee, the Lord look upon and judge my cause, and rescue me out of thy hand. ^{16 (24:17)} And it came to pass when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, Son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. ^{17 (24:18)} And Saul said to David, Thou art more righteous that I, for thou hast recompensed me good, but I have recompensed thee evil. ^{18 (24:19)} And thou hast told me to-day what good thou hast done me, how the Lord shut me up into thy hands to-day, and thou didst not slay me. ^{19 (24:20)} And if any one should find his enemy in distress, and should send him forth in a good way, then the Lord will reward him good, as thou has done this day. ^{20 (24:21)} And now, behold, I know that thou shalt surely reign, and the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand. ^{21 (24:22)} Now then swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, that thou wilt not blot out my name from the house of my father. ^{22 (24:23)} So David swore to Saul: and Saul departed to his place, and David and his men went up to the strong-hold of Messera.

¹⁹ And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessaemon?

²⁸ So Saul returned from following after David, and went to meet the Philistines: therefore that place was called The divided Rock. ^{29 (24:1)} And David rose up from thence, and dwelt in the narrow passes of Engaddi.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

¹² When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.

⁹ There are robbers in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee.

³ They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

² And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Machmas, and in mount Baethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent.

² And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and with him went three thousand men chosen out of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

^{32 (36:32)} The sinner watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

^{12 (37:12)} While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

^{18 (103:18)} The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.

^{6 (140:6)} Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

²⁴ And he went out: and Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

^{1 (56:1)} For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave. Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in thee: and in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until the iniquity have passed away. ^{2 (56:2)} I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause. ^{3 (56:3)} He sent from heaven and saved me; he gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth; ^{4 (56:4)} and he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions' whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword. ^{5 (56:5)} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth. ^{6 (56:6)} They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul: they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it themselves. Pause. ^{7 (56:7)} My heart, O God, is ready, my heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms. ^{8 (56:8)} Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early. ^{9 (56:9)} O Lord, I will give thanks to thee among the nations: I will sing to thee among the Gentiles. ^{10 (56:10)} For thy mercy has been magnified even to the heavens, and thy truth to the clouds. ^{11 (56:11)} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth.

^{1 (141:1)} A Psalm of instruction for David, when he was in the cave, — a Prayer. I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. ^{2 (141:2)} I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction. ^{3 (141:3)} When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me. ^{4 (141:4)} I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul. ^{5 (141:5)} I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ^{6 (141:6)} Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I. ^{7 (141:7)} Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until thou recompense me.

⁷ And it was told Saul that David was come to Keila: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be second to thee; and Saul my father knows it.

^{10 (24:11)} Behold, thine eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered thee this day into my hands in the cave; and I would not slay thee, but spared thee, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.

^{18 (24:19)} And thou hast told me to-day what good thou hast done me, how the Lord shut me up into thy hands to-day, and thou didst not slay me.

²⁸ Remove, I pray thee, the trespass of thy servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in thee. ²⁹ And if a man shall rise up persecuting thee and seeking thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and thou shalt whirl the life of thine enemies as in the midst of a sling. ³⁰ And it shall be when the Lord shall have wrought for my lord all the good things he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee to be ruler over Israel;

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thine hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again. ⁹ And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless? ¹⁰ And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord smite him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so. ¹¹ The Lord forbid it me that I should lift up my hand against the anointed of the Lord: and now take, I pray thee, the spear from his bolster, and the pitcher of water, and let us return home.

²³ And the Lord shall recompense each according to his righteousness and his truth, since the Lord delivered thee this day into my hands, and I would not lift my hand against the Lord's anointed.

⁸ And they brought the head of Jebosthe to David to Chebron, and they said to the king, Behold the head of Jebosthe the son of Saul thy enemy, who sought thy life; and the Lord has executed for my lord the king vengeance on his enemies, as it is this day: even on Saul thy enemy, and on his seed.

³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

⁹ Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

¹⁰ And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, in what I have now done: remove, I pray thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.

¹⁹ because thy heart was softened, and thou was humbled before me, when thou heardest all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and thou didst rend thy garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ And David said to him, How was it thou wast not afraid to lift thy hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord?

^{3 (20:3)} And Nabuthai said to Achaab, My God forbid me that I should give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

³³ and blessed be thy conduct, and blessed be thou, who hast hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself.

⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

³ And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying,

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the good land, which the Lord thy God gives to thee.

⁴¹ And when the lad went in, then David arose from the argab, and fell upon his face, and did obeisance to him three times, and they kissed each other, and wept for each other, for a great while.

²³ And Abigaia saw David, and she hasted and alighted from her ass; and she felt before David on her face, and did obeisance to him, bowing to the ground ²⁴ even to his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my wrong: let, I pray thee, thy servant speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy servant.

¹⁷ And Saul recognized the voice of David, and said, Is this thy voice, son David? and David said, I am thy servant, my lord, O king.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not walk deceitfully among thy people; thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs thee up against me, let thine offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they are cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods.

^{5 (100:5)} Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, — with him I have not eaten.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

⁴ A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips.

⁸ Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.

²³ The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases. ²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife. ²² The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they smite even to the inmost parts of the bowels.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates the truth; and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.

^{21 (7:22)} Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee. ^{22 (7:23)} For many times he shall trespass against thee, and repeatedly shall he afflict thine heart; for thus also hast thou cursed others.

^{4 (24:5)} And the men of David said to him, Behold, this is the day of which the Lord spoke to thee, that he would deliver thine enemy into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as it is good in thy sight. So David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's garment secretly.

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thine hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again. ⁹ And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless?

^{15 (104:15)} saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.

²⁷ And David arose, and went, he and his men, and smote among the Philistines a hundred men: and he brought their foreskins, and he becomes the king's son-in-law, and Saul gives him Melchol his daughter to wife.

¹⁴ And he dwelt in Maserem in the wilderness, in the narrow passes; and dwelt in the wilderness in mount Ziph, in the dry country. And Saul sought him continually, but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.

²³ Take notice, then, and learn, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass that if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Juda.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for in what have I sinned? and what unrighteousness has been found in me?

²⁰ And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek thy life, as the night hawk pursues its prey in the mountains.

¹³ And his servants came near and said to him, Suppose the prophet had spoken a great thing to thee, wouldest thou not perform it? yet he has but said to thee, Wash, and be cleansed.

¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

^{7 (34:7)} For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

^{11 (139:11)} A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

¹ Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.

¹⁸ We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

¹⁸ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:

⁵ And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

⁵³ The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

²⁷ And now I have not sinned against thee, but thou wrongest me in preparing war against me: may the Lord the Judge judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

⁸ The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then thou shalt direct the righteous, O God that searchest the hearts and reins.

^{1 (34:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge thou, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.

^{1 (42:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge me, o God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

^{1 (93:1)} A Psalm of David for the fourth day of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to Gedeon, What is this that thou hast done to us, in that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Madiam? and they chode with him sharply. ² And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³ The Lord has delivered into your hand the princes of Madiam, Oreb and Zeb; and what could I do in comparison of you? Then was their spirit calmed toward him, when he spoke this word.

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I as a dog, that thou comest against me with a staff and stones? {\I and David said, Nay, but worse than a dog.} And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

⁸ And Abenner was very angry with Jebosthe for this saying; and Abenner said to him, Am I a dog's head? I have this day wrought kindness with the house of Saul thy father, and with his brethren and friends, and have not gone over to the house of David, and dost thou this day seek a charge against me concerning injury to a woman?

²⁰ And David returned to bless his house. And Melchol the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and saluted him, and said, How was the king of Israel glorified to-day, who was to-day uncovered in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the dancers wantonly uncovers himself!

⁸ And Memphibosthe did obeisance, and said, Who am I thy servant, that thou hast looked upon a dead dog like me?

⁹ And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head.

^{7 (20:7)} And Jezabel his wife said to him, Dost thou now thus act the king over Israel? arise, and eat bread, and be thine own master, and I will give thee the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.

^{12 (24:13)} The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord requite thee on thyself: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

⁴ And David sent spies, and ascertained that Saul was come prepared out of Keila.

²² So Joas remembered not the kindness which his father Jodae had exercised towards him, but slew his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and judge.

^{154 (118:154)} Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of thy word.

² Hear these words, ye people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁴ And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.

²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

¹¹ As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so is it to speak a wise word.

²⁶ And Judas knew them, and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.

²⁷ And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

²¹ And Saul said, I have sinned: turn, son David, for I will not hurt thee, because my life was precious in thine eyes; and to-day I have been foolish and have erred exceedingly.

^{6 (36:6)} And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

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⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thine hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.

^{8 (30:8)} And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest of thyself, and about which thou cursedst me, and spokest in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed be my son of the Lord.

²¹ And Saul said to them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, for ye have been grieved on my account.

²⁵ And Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son; and thou shalt surely do valiantly, and surely prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

^{20 (17:20)} And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

²¹ If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; ²² for so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee with good.

¹⁴ But now thy kingdom shall not stand to thee, and the Lord shall seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord shall appoint him to be a ruler over his people, because thou hast not kept all that the Lord commanded thee.

³⁰ And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, Thou son of traitorous damsels! for do I not know that thou art an accomplice with the son of Jessae to thy same, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness? ³¹ For so long as the son of Jessae lives upon the earth, thy kingdom shall not be established: now then send and take the young man, for he shall surely die.

¹⁷ And Abenner spoke to the elders of Israel, saying, In former days ye sought David to reign over you; ¹⁸ and now perform it: for the Lord has spoken concerning David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save Israel out of the hand of all their enemies.

²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

²³ Now therefore swear to me by God that thou wilt not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with thee thou shalt deal with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.

⁴⁸ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

¹⁴ And if indeed I continue to live, then shalt thou deal mercifully with me; and if I indeed die, ¹⁵ thou shalt not withdraw thy mercy from my house for ever: and if thou doest not, when the Lord cuts off the enemies of David each from the face of the earth, ^{16 (20:15A)} should it happen that the name of Jonathan be discovered by the house of David, then let the Lord seek out the enemies of David. ¹⁷ And Jonathan swore yet again to David, because he loved the soul of him that loved him.

⁶ Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. ⁷ But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite.

^{29 (24:1)} And David rose up from thence, and dwelt in the narrow passes of Engaddi.

²⁴ A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit. ²⁵ Though thine enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.