2 Samuel 21:2 Cross References - MLV

² And the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites and the sons of Israel had sworn to them and yet Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah),

¹⁶ And they will come here again in the fourth generation, because the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

¹⁶ And you will consume all the peoples that Jehovah your God will deliver to you. Your eye will not pity them. Neither will you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

³ But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, ⁴ they also worked shrewdly and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their donkeys and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up, ⁵ and old and patched shoes upon their feet and old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry and became moldy.
⁶ And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country, now therefore make you* a covenant with us. ⁷ And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you* dwell among us and how will we make a covenant with you*? ⁸ And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you* and from where do you* come?
⁹ And they said to him, From a very far country. Your servants have come because of the name of Jehovah your God, for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt, ¹⁰ and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
¹¹ And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your* hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, We are your* servants and now make you* a covenant with us.
¹² This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you*, but now, behold, it is dry and has become moldy. ¹³ And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new, and behold, they are torn. And these our garments and our shoes have become old by reason of the very long journey.
¹⁴ And the men took of their provision and did not ask counsel at the mouth of Jehovah. ¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them to let them live and the rulers of the congregation swore to them. ¹⁶ And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelt among them.
¹⁷ And the sons of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim. ¹⁸ And the sons of Israel did not kill* them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by Jehovah, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the rulers. ¹⁹ But all the rulers said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Jehovah, the God of Israel, now therefore we may not touch them.
²⁰ This we will do to them and let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them. ²¹ And the rulers said to them, Let them live. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the rulers had spoken to them.

⁴⁴ And Saul said, God do so and more also, for you will surely die, Jonathan.

⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the seconds and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them. But everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

¹⁶ And he said, Come with me and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.

³¹ But Jehu did not take heed to walk in the law of Jehovah, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

⁵⁴ Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do you will that we should tell the fire to come down from heaven and consume them as Elisha also did?
⁵⁵ But he turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know of what spirit you are.

² They will be expelling you from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that everyone who kills you may think that he is offering divine service to God.

² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to full knowledge.

¹⁷ They are zealous for you in no good way. But they wish to lock you out from us, in order that you may be zealous for them.