2 Samuel 17:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: »Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David.

³ You, O Jehovah, are a protective shield over me. You are my glory. You hold my head high. ⁴ I call aloud to Jehovah. He answers me from his holy mountain. ⁵ I lie down and sleep. I wake up again because Jehovah continues to sustain me.

⁸ In peace I will both lie down and sleep. For you alone, O Jehovah, make my dwelling safe and secure.

² Wicked and deceitful people have opened their mouths against me. They speak against me with lying tongues. ³ They surround me with hateful words. They fight against me without reason. ⁴ In return for my love, they accuse me, but I pray for them.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

¹⁶ They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

⁷ Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways. ⁸ They do not know the way of peace. There is no justice on their highways. They made their paths crooked. Those who walk on them will never know peace.