Proverbs 17:17 Cross References - NHEB

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁶ Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

² Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and keep hidden in a secret place.

¹⁷ And Jonathan swore to David again, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

¹⁶ Jonathan, Saulʼs son, set out and came to David at Horesh and encouraged him in the LORD.

²⁶ I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love for me was a wonder, more than the love of women.

¹ David said, "Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" ² There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "Your servant is he." ³ The king said, "Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet." ⁴ The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Look, he is in the house of Makir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar." ⁵ Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Makir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. ⁶ Mippibaal, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, "Mippibaal." He answered, "Look, your servant." ⁷ And David said to him, "Do not be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather. You shall eat bread at my table continually." ⁸ He bowed down, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?" ⁹ Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given to your master's son. ¹⁰ You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants, and you shall bring food into your masterʼs house that they may eat. But Mippibaal your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. ¹¹ Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant shall do." So Mippibaal ate at David's table like one of the king's sons. ¹² Mippibaal had a young son, whose name was Micah. All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mippibaal. ¹³ So Mippibaal lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.

¹⁴ For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

²⁴ A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

¹¹ For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,