2 Samuel 23:3 Cross References - CAB

³ The God of Israel says, The watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you strengthen the fear of the anointed?

²⁰ And he set up an altar there, and called on the God of Israel.

¹⁵ And God said again to Moses, Thus shall you say to the sons of Israel: The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is My name forever, and My memorial to all generations.

²¹ Also you shall select for yourself able men out of all the people, God fearing men, righteous men, hating pride, and you shall set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

⁵ And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine. ⁶ And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

² I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

⁶ You shall not pervert the judgment of the poor in his cause. ⁷ You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not slay the innocent and righteous, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts. ⁸ And you shall not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment; ¹⁹ they shall not pervert judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. ²⁰ You shall justly pursue justice, that you may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.

⁴ As for God, His works are true, and all His ways are judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in Him; just and holy is the Lord.

³⁰ How should one pursue a thousand, and two put tens of thousands to flight, if God had not sold them, and the Lord had not delivered them up? ³¹ For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.

² And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, ³ my God; He shall be to me my guard, I will trust in Him: He is my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; You shall save me from the unjust man.

³² Who is strong, but the Lord? And who will be a Creator except our God?

⁷ And now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, and be wary, and do your duty; for there is no unrighteousness with the Lord our God, neither is it for Him to respect persons, or to take bribes. ⁸ Moreover Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁹ And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the Lord, in truth and with a perfect heart.

¹⁴ From the day that he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the provisions extorted from them.

⁹ I will say to God, You are my helper; why have You forgotten me? Why do I mourn, while the enemy oppresses me?

² that he may judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

³ Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

² The Lord shall send out the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies!

⁹ Open your mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.

¹ And there shall come forth a Rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root; ² and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill Him; ³ the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report; ⁴ but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one. ⁵ And He shall have His loins girded with righteousness, and His sides clothed with truth.

¹ For behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgment.

⁵ Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King is coming to you, righteous, and your Savior; He is meek and riding on a donkey, a young foal of a donkey.

⁸ But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom.