1 Samuel 23:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ Now therefore every thing answereth the king's desire to induce him to come down. Come down to us. He is shut into the king's hands.

⁶ among the children of Israel, if, out of any one of all these cities of the children of Israel where he dwelleth, a Levite cometh, with all the desire of his soul, to the place which the Lord hath chosen,

¹² [Omitted]

²¹ Then Abenner said to David, Let me, I pray thee, arise and go, and I will assemble all Israel before my lord the king, and make a covenant with him, and thou shalt reign over all that thy heart desireth. So David dismissed Abenner, and he departed in peace.

¹¹ And the men of the city, the elders and freemen who dwelt in his city did as Jezabel had sent to them, even as it was written in the letter she sent them. ¹² So having proclaimed a fast, they set Nabuthi at the head of the people, ¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezabel saying, Nabuthi hath been stoned and is dead.

⁵ Therefore the officers of the household and the chiefs of the city and the elders and they who had the charge of bringing up the children sent to Jehu saying, We are thy servants and will do whatever thou shalt order us. We will not make any man king. We will do what is good in thy eyes. ⁶ Thereupon Jehu wrote them a second letter saying, If you are for me and will hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men; the sons of your lord and bring them to me about this time tomorrow to Jezrael. Now the king's sons were seventy men and the nobles of that city brought them up. ⁷ So when this letter reached them, they took the king's sons and slew them, the seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezrael.

³ For strangers have risen up against me; and men of power have sought my life. They have not set God before them.

¹⁰ the wicked shall see and be enraged. Let him gnash his teeth and pine away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

²³ The desire of the righteous is altogether good; but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

²⁶ Many court the favour of princes: but justice cometh to a man from the Lord.