2 Kings 18:23 Cross References - NSB

²³ »And now, make an agreement with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

⁴² The Philistine got a good look at David and he despised him. David was only a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.

⁴⁴ »Come here,« the Philistine told David, »and I will give your body to the birds.«

¹⁰ Benhadad sent Ahab the following message: »May the gods strike me dead if there will be enough dust left from Samaria to give a handful to each soldier who follows me.«

¹⁸ He said: »If they have come out for peace, take them alive and if they have come out for war, take them alive.«

² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: »What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?« ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him, and he said: Such is their building that if a fox climbs to the top of it, their stonewall will be broken down. ⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners. ⁵ Do not let their wrongdoing be covered or their sin be washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

³ Have mercy on us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us, for we are greatly filled with contempt. ⁴ We are filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

¹³ »‘The king of Assyria says: By the strength of my hand I have done it. By my wisdom and understanding I have done it! I am prudent! Also I have removed the boundaries of the nations. I have robbed their treasuries. I have brought down people like a mighty man! ¹⁴ »‘I found the riches of nations as one finds a nest. I gathered the whole world as one gathers abandoned eggs. Not one of them flapped a wing, opened its mouth, or peeped.’«

⁸ »Now, make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses if you can put riders on them. ⁹ »How can you defeat my master's lowest-ranking officers when you trust Egypt for chariots and horses?