2 Samuel 23:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now these were the last words of David. Faithful is David the son of Jessai, And faithful the man whom the Lord hath set Over the anointed of the God of Jacob. And sweet are the psalms of Israel.

¹ Then Jacob called his sons and said to them, Assemble that I may tell you what will happen to you in the latter days.

¹ Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God blessed the children of Israel, before his death;

¹ Now after many years, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies round about, Joshua being far advanced in years, ² convoked all the sons of Israel, their senate, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their under officers, and said to them, I am grown old, and am far advanced in years. ³ Now you have seen all that the Lord our God hath done to these nations for your sake; for it is the Lord your God who hath fought for you. ⁴ You see that I have thrown in among the lots for your tribes, the nations which are left by you, with all the nations which I have exterminated between the Jordan and the great sea, which is to be your western boundary. ⁵ The Lord our God will himself root them out from before you until they be destroyed. He will send the wild beasts against them, until they utterly destroy them and their kings from before you, so that you may possess their land, as the Lord our God hath spoken to you. ⁶ Be strong therefore to keep with all diligence, and to do all that are written in the book of the law of Moses, that you may not turn aside to the right, nor to the left. ⁷ That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left, the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them; ⁸ but you shall cleave to the Lord our God, as you have done to this day. ⁹ Then will the Lord root them out from before you, though they are great and powerful nations. None indeed have been able to stand before you even to this day. ¹⁰ One of you hath chased a thousand, because the Lord our God himself fought for you, as he promised you. ¹¹ Therefore take good heed to love the Lord our God. ¹² For if you turn away, and join yourselves with those nations which are left with you, and intermarry with them, and be mixed with them, and they with you; ¹³ be assured that the Lord will no more drive out those nations from before you; but they shall be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you be destroyed from this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you. ¹⁴ As for me, I am going speedily the way of all who are on the earth. Now you must know in your heart, and in your soul, that not one word hath failed of all that the Lord our God hath said. With respect to all that have come to us, not one of them have failed. ¹⁵ Now as all the good things, which the Lord hath spoken respecting you, have come to you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he destroy you from this good land, which the Lord hath given you, ¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.

¹⁰ The Lord will make his adversary weak. Holy is the Lord. Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, Nor the mighty man boast of his power; Nor let the rich man boast of his riches: But let him who boasteth, boast of this; That the Lord understandeth, and knoweth, And that he executeth judgment and justice in the land. The Lord ascended up to heaven and thundered; He will judge the highest on earth: To our kings he giveth power, And he will exalt the horn of his anointed.

¹² So he sent for him. Now he was of a ruddy complexion, with beautiful eyes, and comely in appearance to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, Arise and anoint David, for he is good. ¹³ So Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And a Spirit of the Lord came upon David, from that day forward. Then Samuel arose and went to Armathaim.

⁸ But now, thus shalt thou say to my servant David, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I took thee from the sheepcot to be ruler over my people; over Israel; ⁹ and I have been with thee whithersoever thou didst go, and have destroyed all thine enemies from before thee, and made thee renowned according to the renown of the great men on the earth;

⁴ Then he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and in responsive strains to thank and praise the Lord the God of Israel. ⁵ Asaph was the leader, and to him responded Zacharias, Jeiel, Semiramoth and Jeiel, Matthathias, Eliab and Banaias, Abdedom and Jeiel, with musical instruments, nablas and kinyras; but Asaph used the cymbal;

⁷ On that day David gave orders for beginning the praises of the Lord by the ministry of Asaph and his brethren, with this Ode:

⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Proclaim to all the wonders which the Lord hath done.

⁶ But as for me, by him I am appointed king on Sion his holy mountain.

²⁰ An intermission of the Hymns of David son of Jessai.

⁷⁰ and he chose David his servant and took him from the flocks of sheep; ⁷¹ he took them from tending the ewes with young to feed his servant Jacob and Israel his inheritance.

²⁰ I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with holy oil.

⁵ some are dwelling: on the sound of musical instruments; as if they thought it fixed and not fleeting.

⁴² when David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, This is what I told you while I was yet with you, That all the things written concerning me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, must needs be accomplished.

¹⁹ when: you are speaking to one another, when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you are singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord: ²⁰ and give thanks on all occasions for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father.

¹⁶ Let the word of the Christ dwell richly in you with all wisdom, when you teach and admonish one another; when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you sing gratefully to the Lord with your heart.

¹³ Is any one among you afflicted, let him pray. Is any one cheerful, let him sing praises.

¹³ Indeed I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by admonition; ¹⁴ as I know that I must soon lay aside this tabernacle of mine, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath plainly shewed me; ¹⁵ and I will use all diligence that you may be able, every one of you, to recollect these things after my departure.