2 Samuel 16:3 Cross References - MKJV

³ And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains at Jerusalem. For he said, Today the house of Israel shall restore to me the kingdom of my father.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹⁸ And the judges shall make careful inquiry. And behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother, ¹⁹ then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

⁹ Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, I have given to your master's son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house. ¹⁰ And you shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants. And you shall bring in the fruits so that your master's son may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's son, shall eat bread always at my table. And Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

²⁴ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his moustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until he came in peace. ²⁵ And it happened when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth? ²⁶ And he answered, My lord, O, king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me an ass so that I may ride on it and go to the king, because your servant is lame. ²⁷ And he spoke slander against your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an angel of God. And do what is good in your eyes. ²⁸ For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. And you set your servant among those eating at your own table. What right then have I to cry to the king any more? ²⁹ And the king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land. ³⁰ And Mephibosheth said to the king, Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.

³ he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

¹⁸ You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

⁵ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

²⁸ A false witness shall perish, but the man who hears speaks on and on.

⁵ Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

⁹ But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹¹ Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.