2 Samuel 4 Cross References - MSTC

¹ When Ishbosheth heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands fainted and all Israel was troubled. ² Now this Saul's son had two men that were become captains over the soldiers, the one called Baanah and the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, and of the children of Benjamin: for Beeroth was reckoned to pertain to Benjamin. ³ And these Beerothites fled to Gittaim and sojourned there until the same time. ⁴ And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame on his feet: five years old was he when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel. And his nurse took him up and fled away. And as she made haste to flee and was amazed, the child fell and became halt and was called Mephibosheth. ⁵ And these sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came in the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he slept on a bed at noon. ⁶ And behold, they came into the house as though they would have bought wheat, and smote him under the short ribs and fled. ⁷ For they came into the house as he slept on his bed in his resting chamber, and smote him and slew him and beheaded him and took his head and gat them away through the wild fields all night. ⁸ And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David, to Hebron and said to the king, "Behold there the head of Ishbosheth Saul's son, thine enemy, which sought thy soul. But the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed." ⁹ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, "As surely as the LORD liveth, which hath delivered my soul out of all adversities: ¹⁰ him that told me how that Saul was dead, thinking to have brought me good tidings, I caught and slew in Ziklag, to give him a reward for his tidings-bringing. ¹¹ And how much more ought I to deal with wicked men that have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? Now therefore think ye that I will not require his blood of your hands and take you from the earth?" ¹² And David commanded his young men, and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them up by the pole in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

¹¹ And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.

¹³ Then said God to Noah, "The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of their mischief. And lo, I will destroy them with the earth.

²³ Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth; both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the air, so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark.

⁵ For verily the blood of you, wherein your lives are, will I require: Even of the hand of all beasts will I require it, and of the hand of man and of the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man: ⁶ so that he which sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man after his own likeness.

¹⁶ And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."

¹⁵ For now I will stretch out my hand and will smite thee and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perish from the earth.

¹² "He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it.

³¹ Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer, which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death. ³² Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city, that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. ³³ "'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. ³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell, for I am the LORD which dwell among the children of Israel.'"

²² If a man have committed a trespass worthy of death and is put to death for it and hanged on tree: ²³ let not his body remain all night upon the tree, but bury him the same day. For the curse of God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy land therefore, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit.

¹⁷ For the children of Israel took their journey and came unto their cities the third day: and their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth and Kiriathjearim.

²⁵ Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth;

⁵⁴ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem: But he put his armour in his tent.

¹¹ And Saul had a spear in his hand, and hurled it; intending to have nailed David to the wall. But David avoided out of his presence two times.

² and told David saying, "Saul my father goeth about to slay thee. Now therefore take heed to thyself betimes and abide in some secret place and hide thyself. ³ And I will go out and stand by my father in the field where thou art, and will commune with my father of thee, and if I can perceive ought I will tell thee." ⁴ And Jonathan spake the best of David unto Saul his father and said unto him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, for he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are to thee ward very good. ⁵ For he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine, and the LORD gave a great victory to all Israel. And thou sawest it, and thou rejoicedest. Wherefore then shouldest thou sin against innocent blood, and slay David for nought?" ⁶ And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan and sware, "As truly as the LORD liveth, he shall not die." ⁷ Then Jonathan called David and showed him all those words, and brought him to Saul. And he was in his presence as in times past. ⁸ And the war began again, and David went out and fought with the Philistines and slew a great slaughter, and put them to flight. ⁹ And the evil spirit of the LORD was upon Saul as he sat in his house having a javelin in his hand, and David played with his hand. ¹⁰ And Saul intended to nail David to the wall with the Javelin: But David rid himself out of Saul's presence and he smote the spear into the wall. But David fled and saved himself that same night. ¹¹ Then Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal his wife told it him saying, "If thou save not thyself this night, tomorrow thou art a dead man."

¹⁵ Then Saul sent the messengers to see David saying, "Bring him to me, bed and all, that he may be slain."

¹ And David fled from Naioth in Ramah and went and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? Wherein am I faulty? What is the sin that I have committed before thy father that he seeketh my life?"

¹⁵ And David saw that Saul was come out, to seek his life, while David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a thicket.

⁴ And the men of David said unto him, "See, the day is come of which the LORD said unto thee, 'Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, and thou shalt do with him what it pleaseth thee.'" Then David arose and cut off the tip of Saul's coat privily.

²⁹ And if any man rise to persecute thee and to seek thy soul, the soul of my lord be bound in a bundle of life with the LORD thy God. And the souls of thy enemies be slung in the middle of a sling.

¹ The Philistines gathered all their hosts together unto Aphek: And Israel pitched by a fountain in Jezreel.

¹¹ And so David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, and to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

¹ And as the Philistines fought against Israel, the men of Israel fled away from the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed after Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons. ³ And the battle went sore against Saul, insomuch that shooters with bows had found him, and he was sore wounded of the shooters. ⁴ Then said Saul unto his harness bearer, "Draw out thy sword and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come thrust me through and make a mockingstock of me." But his harness bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. Wherefore Saul took a sword and fell upon it. ⁵ And when his harness bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him. ⁶ And so Saul died and his three sons and his harness bearer, and thereto all his men, that same day together. ⁷ When the men of Israel that were of the other side of the valley, and they of the other side Jordan, heard that the men of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left the cities, and ran away, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

⁷ When the men of Israel that were of the other side of the valley, and they of the other side Jordan, heard that the men of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left the cities, and ran away, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. ⁸ On the morrow when the Philistines were come to strip them that were slain, they found Saul and his sons lying in mount Gilboa. ⁹ And they cut off his head and stripped him out of his harness, and sent unto the land of the Philistines everywhere, to publish in the houses of their gods and to the people.

⁹ And they cut off his head and stripped him out of his harness, and sent unto the land of the Philistines everywhere, to publish in the houses of their gods and to the people. ¹⁰ And they hanged up his harness in the house of Ashtaroth, but they hanged up his carcass on the walls of Bet-Shean.

² Behold, there came a man the third day out of the host from Saul with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the earth and did obeisance. ³ To whom David said, "Whence comest thou?" And the other answered him, "Out of the host of Israel am I escaped." ⁴ And David said to him again, "How hath it chanced? Tell me." And he said, "The people fled from the battle, and many of the people are overthrown and dead: and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead thereto." ⁵ And David said unto the young man that told him, "How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?" ⁶ And the young man that told him, said, "I was by chance in mount Gilboa. And see, Saul leaned upon his spear, and the chariots and horsemen followed him at the heels. ⁷ And Saul looked back and called me. And I answered, 'Here am I.' ⁸ And he said unto me, 'What art thou?' And I said unto him, 'I am an Amalekite.' ⁹ And he said unto me, 'Come on me and slay me: For anguish is come upon me and my life is yet all in me.' ¹⁰ And I went on him and slew him: for I was sure that he could not live, after that he was fallen. And I took the crown that was upon his head and the bracelet that was on his arm and have brought them unto my lord hither." ¹¹ Then David took his clothes and rent them, and so did all the men that were with him. ¹² And they mourned, wept and fasted until evening — for Saul, and Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they were overthrown with the sword. ¹³ Then said David unto the young man that brought him tidings, "Whence art thou?" And he said, "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite." ¹⁴ And David said unto him, "How is it that thou wast not afraid to lay thine hand on the LORD's anointed, to destroy him?" ¹⁵ And David called one of his young men, and said, "Go and run upon him." And he smote him that he died.

¹⁵ And David called one of his young men, and said, "Go and run upon him." And he smote him that he died. ¹⁶ Then said David unto him, "Thy blood upon thine own head; for thine own mouth hath testified against thee, saying, 'I have slain the LORD's anointed.'"

⁸ But Abner the son of Ner that was captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim;

²³ Howbeit, he would in no wise depart. Then Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the short ribs, that the spear came out behind him: that he fell down in the same place and died there. And as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died, stood still.

²⁹ And Abner and his men walked all that night by the wild fields, and went over Jordan, and passed through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

²² And see, the servants of David and Joab came from chasing robbers and brought a great prey with them. But Abner was not with David in Hebron: for he had sent him away to depart in peace.

²⁷ And when Abner was come again to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate, to speak with him guilefully, and there smote him under the short ribs that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

³² And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, the king lifted up his voice and wept over the sepulchre of Abner, and so did all the people.

³⁹ And I am this day tender, though I be anointed king. And these men the sons of Zeruiah be too strong for me to rule. But the LORD reward the doer of evil, according to his wickedness."

³ Then said the king, "Remaineth there yet any man of the kindred of Saul, whom I may show the mercy of God upon?" And Ziba said unto the king, "Jonathan hath yet a son which is lame on both feet."

⁶ Now when Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come unto David, he bowed himself and fell on his face. Then said David, "Mephibosheth?" And he answered, "Behold thy servant."

² And it chanced in an evening that David arose from his couch and walked upon the roof of the king's palace; and from the roof saw a very beautiful woman washing herself. And he sent to enquire what woman it should be.

² And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will fear him, that all the people that are with him shall flee. And so will I smite the king only,

¹⁹ Then said Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, "Let me run I pray thee, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath judged him quite of the hands of all his enemies."

³¹ And behold, Cushi came and said, "Tidings, my lord the king: the LORD hath quite thee this day out of the hands of all that rose against thee."

¹⁰ And Amasa took no heed to the knife that was in Joab's hand, with which Joab smote him in the short ribs, and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him but one stroke, and he died. And then Joab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the son of Bichri.

⁹ and delivered them unto the hands of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in the hill before the LORD. And they fell all seven together in the first days of harvest: even in the beginning of barley harvest.

⁴⁸ It is God that avengeth me, and bringeth down the people under me.

²⁹ And the king sware, saying, "As sure as the LORD, that hath rid my soul out of all adversity, liveth:

³² And the LORD bring his blood upon his own head, for he smote two men righteouser and better than he, and slew them with the sword; my father unwitting: even Abner the son of Ner captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether captain of the host of Judah.

⁹ And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking of strong drink, in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

² And there had gone a company of soldiers out of Syria a running, and had brought out of the country of Israel a little maid, which was with Naaman's wife.

²³ And he made great ordinance before them. And when they had eaten and drunk, sent them away, and they went to their master. And so the soldiers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

⁶ Then he wrote another letter to them saying, "If ye be mine and will obey my voice, then take the heads of your master's sons and come to me to Jezreel, by tomorrow this time." And the king's sons were seventy persons with the great men of the city which nourished them. ⁷ And when the letter came to them, they took the king's children and slew them in number, seventy persons, and put their heads in coffins and sent them to him to Jezreel.

³⁴ And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal and Meribbaal begat Micah.

⁴⁰ And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal. And Meribbaal begat Micah,

²⁵ And as soon as they were departed from him, though they left him in great diseases: yet his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the children of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed. And when he was dead, they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchers of the kings.

²⁷ And after that time that Amaziah did turn away from the LORD, they conspired treason against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish, whither they sent after him and slew him there,

²⁴ Wherefore his own servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house.

⁴ Then the folk of the land hindered the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,

⁹ For they were all minded to make us afraid and thought, "They shall withdraw their hands from the work, that they shall not labour." Howbeit I strengthened my hand the more.

³³ Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

¹² And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

⁵ Into thy hands I commend my spirit; for thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth. ⁶ I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD. ⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy; for thou hast considered my trouble,

⁶ Lo, the poor crieth, and the LORD heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles. ⁷ The angel of the LORD pitcheth his tent round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

¹⁷ The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth them, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

²² The LORD delivereth the souls of his servants, and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute.

²³ But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

⁹ These also that seek the hurt of my soul, they shall go under the earth. ¹⁰ They shall fall into the sword, and be a portion for foxes.

²³ My lips would fain sing praises unto thee; and so would my soul whom thou hast delivered. ²⁴ My tongue talketh of thy righteousness, all the day long; for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil.

⁴ Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?

¹⁰ And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

² Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy,

¹⁵ Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

²² But the ungodly shall be rooted out of the land, and the wicked doers shall be taken out of it.

³³ Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little; ³⁴ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

²⁶ A righteous man falling down before the ungodly, is like a troubled well and a spring that is destroyed.

⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away;

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

²⁴ Then shall this cry be heard, "Our arms are feeble! Heaviness and sorrow is come upon us, as upon a woman travailing with child!

¹¹ As for their gods, it may well be said of them, "They are gods, that made neither heaven nor earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven."

⁴³ As soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble: Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as a woman travailing with child.

⁴ for the law is torn in pieces, and there can no right judgment go forth. And why? The ungodly is more set by than the righteous: this is the cause that wrong judgment proceedeth.

¹² But thou, O LORD my God, my holy one: thou art from the beginning, therefore shall we not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for punishment, and set them to reprove the mighty.

¹⁶ In that time it shall be said unto Jerusalem, "Fear not," and to Zion, "Let not thine hands be slack,

² saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? We have seen his star in the East and are come to worship him." ³ When Herod the king had heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

²⁰ saying, "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the child's life."

² For as ye judge, so shall ye be judged: and with what measure ye mete, with the same shall it be measured to you again.

¹¹ and his head was brought in a platter, and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.

²⁸ And he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger and gave it to the maiden, and the maiden gave it to her mother. ²⁹ And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in a tomb.

⁷ And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them: ⁸ I tell you, he will avenge them, and that quickly. Nevertheless, when the son of man cometh, suppose ye that he shall find faith on the earth?"

³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape. ⁴ But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief. ⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night: and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

¹⁷ notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthed me, that by me the preaching should be fulfilled to the utmost and that all the gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord shall deliver me from all evil doing, and shall keep me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be praise for ever and ever. Amen.

¹² and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice saying, "How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

²⁰ Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles, and prophets: for God hath given your judgment on her."