2 Samuel 20:1 Cross References - LEB

¹ Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, "There is no share for us in David, and there is no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!"

¹³ _⌊worthless men_⌋* have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'Let us go and serve other gods!' whom you have not known,

²⁷ And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* went down from the hill country with him leading them.

²² While _⌊they were enjoying themselves_⌋,* behold, the men of the city, _⌊the perverse lot_⌋,* surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that _⌊we may have sex with him_⌋."*

¹² Now the sons of Eli were _⌊worthless scoundrels_⌋;* they did not know* Yahweh.

⁷ Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, "Please listen, _⌊Benjaminites_⌋!* Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? ⁸ For all of you have conspired against me, and _⌊no one discloses to me_⌋* the _⌊making_⌋* of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or _⌊disclosed to me_⌋* that _⌊my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me_⌋* as has been done this day!"

²² Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them anything from the plunder which we recovered, _⌊except_⌋* each man may take his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"

¹⁰ Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!'"

⁴¹ Suddenly, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. They said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?" ⁴² Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is my close relative! Why are you this angry over this matter? _⌊Have we by any means eaten anything from the king? Did we take by any means anything that was not ours_⌋?"* ⁴³ Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have _⌊ten times as much_⌋* in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt _⌊by not giving me first chance_⌋* to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the word of the men of Israel.

⁶ But evil persons are like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand.

¹⁶ When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "_⌊What share do we have in David_⌋?* There is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to their* tents.

⁶ Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been _⌊serving_⌋* before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?"

¹⁶ So all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, "What portion is there for us in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" And all Israel went to their own tents.

¹³ Rise up, O Yahweh, confront _⌊him_⌋.* Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked,

¹⁹ Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

²¹ Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate. ²² For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of _⌊both of them_⌋,* who knows?

⁸ do not hastily bring out to court, for* what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

²¹ As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife.

¹² Are you not from of old, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? You* shall not die. O Yahweh, you have marked them* for judgment; O Rock, you have established them* for reproof. ¹³ Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.* Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him?

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'

²⁷ But these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them* here and slaughter them in my presence!'"