2 Samuel 15 Cross References - VIN

¹ And after this Absalom began to furnish himself with a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. ² And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate. And it was so, if any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him and said, What city are you from? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. ³ Absalom said to him, "Look, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you." ⁴ And Absalom would say, Oh, that I were made judge in the land, that everyone who has any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! ⁵ The man would approach Absalom and bow down before him. Then Absalom would reach out and hug and kiss him. ⁶ And Absalom acted this way to all Israel who came in to the king for judgment. And Absalom stole the heart of the men of Israel. ⁷ Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord: ⁸ "When I lived at Geshur in Syria (Aram), I promised the LORD that if he would take me back to Jerusalem, I would worship him in Hebron." ⁹ The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron. ¹⁰ But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you will say, Absalom is king in Hebron. ¹¹ Meanwhile, 200 men left Jerusalem with Absalom. They had been invited to go along, but were innocent, not knowing anything about what was happening. ¹² Absalom was offering sacrifices. He sent for Ahithophel, David's adviser, to come from his home in Giloh. Meanwhile, the conspiracy grew stronger. The number of people siding with Absalom kept getting larger. ¹³ A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom." ¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword. ¹⁵ The king's servants said to the king, "Look, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses." ¹⁶ The king left on foot. His whole household followed him. The king left ten concubines behind to take care of the palace. ¹⁷ So the king went out with all the people following him, and they stopped at the last house. ¹⁸ All his mercenaries passed by him. The Cherethites, all the Pelethites, Ittai, and all six hundred men who had followed him from Gath marched past the king. ¹⁹ The king asked Ittai from Gath: "Why should you go with us? Go back, and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland. ²⁰ "In fact you came to us just yesterday. Should I make you wander around with me when I do not even know where I am going? Go back and take your countrymen with you. May the LORD always show you kindness." ²¹ And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will your servant be. ²² Then said David unto Ittai—Go, and pass on. So Ittai the Gittite passed on, with all his men, and all the little ones that were with him. ²³ And all the land wept aloud as all the people went by. And the king also passed over the Kidron Valley, and all the people passed by on the Olive road into the wilderness. ²⁴ Suddenly Zadok was there, and all of the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people passed out of the city. ²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find grace in the eyes of the LORD, then He will bring me back and show it and His dwelling place to me. ²⁶ But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him. ²⁷ Then the king said to Zadok the priest, "Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, with Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you. ²⁸ Look, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me." ²⁹ And Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem. And they remained there. ³⁰ Now David was going up on the Ascent of the Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered their head and wept as they went. ³¹ Now David was told, "Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O LORD." ³² When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head. ³³ David said to him, "If you move on with me, you will be a burden to me, ³⁴ But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; I have been your father's servant until now, and now I also will be your servant, then you may break down the advice of Ahithophel for me. ³⁵ "Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. You can tell them everything you hear in the palace. ³⁶ Lo, there with them [are] their two sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jonathan to Abiathar, and you have sent by their hand unto me anything that you hear.. ³⁷ So David's friend Hushai went back to the city just as Absalom was arriving in Jerusalem.

¹⁶ Only he must not amass horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt to obtain more horses. For the LORD said you must never return that way again.

¹¹ He said, This is what the king who shall reign over you will do: he will take your sons and appoint them to serve with his chariots and to be his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots;

¹¹ "This is what the LORD says: 'Look, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

⁵ But Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." And he gat him a chariot and horsemen and fifty men to run before him.

³³ and David addressed them. "Take your lord's servants, have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.

²⁶ Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem. ²⁷ The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore trees in the Shephelah. ²⁸ And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt from Kue: the merchants fetched them from Kue at a price. ²⁹ A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

² When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

¹⁹ He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

¹⁴ who says, I will build myself a wide house and large upper rooms. And he cuts out windows for it and covers with cedar, and paints with vermilion. ¹⁵ Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. ¹⁶ He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy. Then it was well. "Is that not what it means to know me?" Says the LORD.

¹⁴ When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning until evening?"

¹⁶ When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all times; any difficult cause they brought unto Moses, but every small cause they judged themselves.

¹ Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

⁸ So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the army was informed "The king is sitting in the gateway!" they all gathered together in his presence. Meanwhile, the Israelites had run away back to their own homes.

¹⁶ Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him. ¹⁷ One of them said: "Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby boy at home while she was there. ¹⁸ The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. ¹⁹ And the son of this woman died at night, because she laid on it. ²⁰ So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap. ²¹ The next morning, I got up to nurse my son, and he was dead. But when I examined him carefully in the light of day, he turned out not to be my son whom I had borne!" ²² The other woman said: "The living child is mine, and the dead one is yours!" The first woman answered back: "The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine!" They argued before the king. ²³ And the king said, This one says, This is my son, the living one, and your son the dead. And that one says, No, but your son is the dead, and my son the living. ²⁴ And the king said—Bring me a sword! So they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the sovereign says, Cut the living child in two; and give half to the one and half to the one. ²⁶ But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it. ²⁷ The king announced his decision: "Give the living child to the first woman. Don't kill him. She is his mother." ²⁸ And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.

¹⁴ With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

¹⁶ For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

¹ Now early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to have him put to death.

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

¹⁷ "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

³ They came together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said: "You have gone far enough! Everyone in the whole congregation is holy. the LORD is among them. Why do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?"

¹³ "Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around? ¹⁴ Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel; and David did what is just and right unto all his people.

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

² A good man shall obtain favor from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

¹¹ There is a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

⁷ In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

²¹ In his place shall arise a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

⁴ For God said: ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

⁵ “Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”

¹⁷ Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

¹⁰ Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, these men are unafraid to slander angelic majesties.

¹ Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father, ² "Ask the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you. To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.'" ³ His mother's brothers told all the men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother. ⁴ They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men to join him. ⁵ He went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.

²⁹ If only this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army and come out!

⁶ Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

² May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

⁸ "When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited, ⁹ Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests. ¹¹ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

¹⁹ They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever has overcome him.

³³ So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom.

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰ The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

²⁵ When his speech is charming, do not believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

⁹ With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered

¹⁸ For such as these are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

³ And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from long ago their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

¹ And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse of Bethlehem. For I have seen a king for Me among his sons. ² Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about this and kill me!" The LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I've come to offer a sacrifice to the LORD.'

¹³ Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.

²⁴ Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant." ²⁵ The king said to Absalom, "No my son, not all of us shall go, so that we not be a burden to you." And he urged him, but he was not willing to go, but he blessed him. ²⁶ Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" ²⁷ But Abessalom pressed him, so he sent with him Amnon, and all the king's sons.

³⁸ So after Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he was there three years.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful, how much more when he brings it with an evil intent!

⁴ Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a wicked fist. You shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice heard on the height.

⁸ He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too."

¹³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

²⁰ Jacob made a vow. He said: "If God will be with me and will watch over me on my trip and give me food to eat and clothes to wear, ²¹ "and if I return safely to my father's home, then the LORD will be my God.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, whether the gods whom your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

¹¹ She vowed a vow, and said, “the LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

² Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about this and kill me!" The LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I've come to offer a sacrifice to the LORD.'

³⁷ But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day. ³⁸ So after Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he was there three years.

²³ Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.

³² Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I have sent to you, saying, 'Come here that I may send you to the king to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there." ' So then, let me see the face of the king; if there is guilt in me, then let him kill me."

¹² Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

⁴ When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for he takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you vow!

¹⁵ Because ye have said, “We have entered into a covenant with death, and with the nether world have we made an agreement; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by, shall not come at us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we sought a hiding-place.”

³ They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD. ⁴ Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders. ⁵ Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

²⁰ that you have made a fatal mistake, for you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and all that the LORD our God says, so tell us and we will do it.'

¹ It happened after this that David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David asked, "Where shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."

¹¹ The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

² And sons were born to David in Hebron. And his first-born was Amnon, the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel. ³ his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

²⁸ Absalom commanded his servants saying, Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon', then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!

³⁰ And he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire! And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

¹⁰ And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. And now why do you not speak a word about bringing the king back?

³⁴ And have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, 'Long live king Solomon.'

¹³ So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread them under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, "Jehu is king!"

³ And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

²³ These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

³⁸ All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of Israel were also of one heart to make David king.

⁵ "The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. ⁶ "Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, ⁷ he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say: Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night. ⁹ "The eye that saw him will not see him again. His place (home) will look on him no more. ¹⁰ "His children must make amends to the poor. He must give back his wealth. ¹¹ "The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust. ¹² "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, ¹³ though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, ¹⁴ yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. ¹⁵ "He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up. ¹⁶ "He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him. ¹⁷ "He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. ¹⁸ "What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading. ¹⁹ "For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build. ²⁰ »He will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure. ²¹ "There is nothing left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him. ²³ "With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him. ²⁴ "Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him. ²⁵ "He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him. ²⁶ "Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. ²⁷ "The heavens will expose his guilt. The earth will rise up against him! ²⁸ "A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God's wrath. ²⁹ "This is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God."

¹⁸ Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin. ¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

⁵ Did he not tell me, She is my sister? And did not she say to me, He is my brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands I have done this.

¹³ As soon as you enter the town, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice. Then afterward the invited guests will eat. So then, go up, because you will find him today!"

³ Call Jesse to the sacrifice and I will show you what you must do. You are to anoint for Me the one whom I name to you. ⁴ And Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city trembled to meet him, and said, Do you come in peace? ⁵ He said, "Peace, I've come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." Samuel consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

¹⁵ Is this the first time I have inquired of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king accuse his servant or any of the house of my father, for your servant knows nothing at all of all this.

¹⁵ The simple believes every word, but the prudent man gives thought to his steps.

³ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹⁶ Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

¹⁸ For such as these are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. ¹⁹ Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.

¹ Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

¹⁴ So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

³⁰ Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

⁵¹ Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages.

³¹ Now David was told, "Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O LORD."

²⁰ And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your advice. What shall we do? ²¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong." ²² And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. ²³ Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God. David and Absalom followed it.

¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now the LORD had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for the LORD to bring misery upon Absalom).

²³ When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

⁹ And it was written in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

¹² And they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

³³ Ahithophel was the king's counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

¹ LORD, how my adversaries have increased. Many rise up against me. 2 Many are saying about me, "God will never deliver him!" [Interlude]

⁹ Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹ Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. ² You are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to recite my statutes and mention my covenant with your mouth, ¹⁷ You hate instruction and toss my words behind you. ¹⁸ If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers. ¹⁹ you spread your mouth to evil and contrive your tongue to deceit: ²⁰ You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. ²¹ These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

¹² If an enemy had insulted me, then I could tolerate it. If someone who hated me had attacked me, then I could hide from him. ¹³ But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. ¹⁴ We who together made sweet deliberation, We walked with the foregathering crowd in the House of Elohim."

¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom, listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals and I do not delight in the blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats. ¹² When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them, ¹⁵ "When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ "Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

⁵ Do not trust in a neighbor. Do not put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth. ⁶ For the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own household.

¹⁸ I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown Him; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for anything good.

³ His mother's brothers told all the men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.

³⁶ And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.

⁶ And Absalom acted this way to all Israel who came in to the king for judgment. And Absalom stole the heart of the men of Israel.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

⁹ The crowds that went before him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

²² “What then should I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify Him!”

⁹ Throughout the tribes of Israel, everyone was quarreling with one another: "The king delivered us from the domination of our enemies…" "He's the one who rescued us from Philistine control…" "Now he's fleeing the country because of Absalom…!"

¹⁶ So the Three elite warriors broke through the Philistine ranks, drew some water from the Bethlehem well that was next to the city gate, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out before the Lord, ¹⁷ And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went at the risk of their life? and thus he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

¹ LORD, how my adversaries have increased. Many rise up against me. 2 Many are saying about me, "God will never deliver him!" [Interlude] ³ But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. ⁴ I cry to LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah. ⁵ I lie down and sleep, I wake up, because the LORD sustains me. ⁶ I will not fear multitudes of people, who set themselves against me on every side. ⁷ Arise, LORD. Save me, my God. For you slap all my enemies in the face. You break the teeth of the wicked. ⁸ To the LORD belongs deliverance; may your blessing be over your people. Selah

¹⁸ Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

³ from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked. Because they shake down iniquity upon me and they persecute me in anger. ⁴ My heart is in turmoil within me. The terrors of death have seized me. ⁵ Fear and trembling have overcome me. Horror has overwhelmed me. ⁶ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest; ⁷ I would run far away. I would stay in the desert. ⁸ "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm." ⁹ Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰ Day and night they prowl around on its walls, malice and abuse are also within her. ¹¹ Destructive forces are within her, threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. ⁶ Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

¹⁸ "'The prince must not take any of the people's property. He must not force them to give up their property. He must give his own property as an inheritance to his sons so that none of my people will be separated from their property.'"

¹² From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades!

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

²⁸ You are those who have stood by me in my trials. ²⁹ and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred on me,

⁶⁶ From this time many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve: "Do you also wish to leave me?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ "We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

¹⁰ Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.

²⁷ Let this gift which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

⁴² Abigail quickly got up and rode on a donkey with five of her female servants following her. So she went with David's messengers and became his wife.

²¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong." ²² And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

³ And when David came to his house at Jerusalem, the king took the ten women, his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and sent them to a house of confinement, and fed them, but did not go in to them. So they were kept confined to the day of their death, living as widows.

¹ LORD, how my adversaries have increased. Many rise up against me.

² Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

¹² You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

⁷ I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking like slaves on the ground.

³ And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

¹⁴ We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory that belongs to Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we set Ziklag on fire."

¹⁰ So David would not move the ark of the LORD to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

¹⁸ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were chief ministers.

¹⁹ The king asked Ittai from Gath: "Why should you go with us? Go back, and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland. ²⁰ "In fact you came to us just yesterday. Should I make you wander around with me when I do not even know where I am going? Go back and take your countrymen with you. May the LORD always show you kindness." ²¹ And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will your servant be. ²² Then said David unto Ittai—Go, and pass on. So Ittai the Gittite passed on, with all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

² And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

⁷ Then the men of Joab, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors went out after him; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri.

²³ So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,

³⁸ So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

¹⁷ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials at the king’s side.

¹¹ But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands? ¹² "Return home, my daughters. I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and got married and had sons, ¹³ would you wait for them until they were grown? Would you refrain from marriage for them? No, my daughters! I'm more deeply grieved than you, because the LORD is working against me!"

¹³ David and his men, about six hundred in all, left Keilah. They went wherever they could go. Then Saul was told: "David has escaped from Keilah! So he gave up the campaign."

⁶ `And, now, the LORD does with you kindness and truth, and also, I do with you this good because you have done this thing;"

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

⁸ You scribe my wanderings - set my tears into your skin; are they not in your scroll?

³ He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.

¹⁵ they wander to eat and murmer if they are not satisfied.

⁷ May he live forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace kissed each other .

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face.

²² Do not those who think evil go astray? But mercy and truth shall be to those who think of good.

¹² People will stagger from sea to sea, from north to east. They will run back and forth, searching for the word of the LORD, but they won't find it.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorous, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain; ¹⁷ On the contrary, when he arrived in Rome, he sought eagerly for me till he found me. ¹⁸ May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day. You know very well in how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated. ³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

¹⁶ Ruth said, “Don't urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.

³ But David took an oath and said, Your father knows well that I have found favour in your eyes, so he says, 'Don't let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved'; but truly as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.

²⁶ »the LORD kept you from spilling innocent blood and from getting a victory by your own efforts. As the LORD lives and you live, may your enemies and those who are trying to harm you end up like Nabal.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.

⁴ And Elijah said to him, Elisha, please stay here. For the LORD has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.

⁶ And Elijah said to him, Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And the two of them went on.

³⁰ The child's mother said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he arose, and followed her.

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

¹⁹ And a Teacher of the Law came up to him, and said: "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." ²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

²³ When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts;

¹³ Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

³ I am not saying this to condemn you, for [as] I said before, you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you.

² The king asked Ziba, "What are those for?" Ziba replied, "The donkey's are for the king's household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for your young men to eat, and the wine is for whomever wants to drink if they get weary in the wilderness."

³⁷ If you ever leave and cross the Kidron Brook, you can be sure that you'll die. You'll be responsible for your own death."

¹³ He removed his mother Maacah from her position as Queen Mother because she had made a detestable image dedicated to Asherah. Asa cut down his mother's idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Kidron Brook.

¹⁶ And the priests went into the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD, and in the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out into the brook Kidron.

¹ In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

³ This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

⁸⁰ And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.

¹ Ater Jesus had said this, he went with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

¹⁵ »When Aaron and his sons finished covering the holy things and the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry all the holy articles. They must never touch the holy things, or they will die. The Kohathites will carry all the things from the tent of meeting.

⁹ But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath, because the service of the holy things belonged to them. They bore them on their shoulders.

³ and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.

⁶ And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people." And they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

¹⁵ As they carried the ark into the Jordan and the feet of the priests dipped into the water, for Jordan is at food stage at the time of harvest. ¹⁶ the waters flowing down from above stood still; they stood up in one heap very far from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. ¹⁷ The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. Then, all the people of Israel passed over the Jordan on dry ground.

¹⁶ "Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony to come up from the Jordan." ¹⁷ So Joshua commanded the priests, saying,—Come ye up out of the Jordan. ¹⁸ And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into their channel, and ran as they were wont before.

⁴ And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns in front of the ark. And the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven ram's horns in front of the ark of the LORD.

³ When the people had returned to the camp the elders of Israel said, Why has the LORD struck us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh that it may go with us and save us out of the hand of our enemies. ⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD Almighty, who sits above the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. ⁵ When the ark of the LORD's covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

¹¹ The Ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, died.

²⁰ One man, Ahimelech's son Abiathar, a grandson of Ahitub, escaped and fled to David.

¹³ After those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed oxen and fattened animals,

¹⁷ Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

²⁷ Then the king said to Zadok the priest, "Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, with Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you.

³⁵ "Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. You can tell them everything you hear in the palace.

²⁵ Sheva was secretary, Zadok and Abiathar were priests,

⁸ But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and David's mighty men, were not with Adonijah.

³⁵ The king made Benaiah commander of the army in Joab's place and put Zadok the priest in Abiathar's place.

² Now, these, were his chief officers of state,—Azariah son of Zadok, the priest; ³ Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, scribes,—Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, the recorder; ⁴ And Benaiah son of Jehoiada, over the army,—and Zadok and Abiathar priests;

⁸ Ahitub the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Ahimaaz, ⁹ Ahimaaz the father of Azariah, Azariah the father of Johanan, ¹⁰ Johanan was the father of Azariah. It was he who served as priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem), ¹¹ Azariah the father of Amariah, Amariah the father of Ahitub, ¹² Ahitub the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Shallum,

² then David said, None but the Levites ought to carry the ark of God; for the Lord hath chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.

¹¹ To the priests being consecrated: of the sons of Zadok, who watched my watches, who went not astray in the going astray of the sons of Israel, as the Levites went astray.

¹³ In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness.

³ When the people had returned to the camp the elders of Israel said, Why has the LORD struck us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh that it may go with us and save us out of the hand of our enemies. ⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD Almighty, who sits above the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. ⁵ When the ark of the LORD's covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded. ⁶ When the Philistines heard the noise, they asked: "What is all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?" The Philistines found out that the LORD's ark was brought into the camp. ⁷ and the Philistines were terrified. "God has come into the camp," they said. "Woe to us, because nothing like this has ever happened before! ⁸ Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the desert. ⁹ Be strong and fight like men, O, Philistines, so that you may not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men and fight! ¹⁰ So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and each man fled to his tent, for the slaughter was very great. Thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell. ¹¹ The Ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, died.

¹⁷ They brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

² the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' ¹¹ "This is what the LORD says: 'Look, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

⁸ LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

⁴ One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple ⁵ Because in the day of trouble he will hide me in his shelter. He will hide me in the covering of his tabernacle He will lift me up upon a rock.

¹ For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

³ Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places. ⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy and I will praise you upon the harp, O God, my God.

¹ A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. ² So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

¹ For the music director; on the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely are your dwelling places, O LORD Almighty! ² My soul longs and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. ³ Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, on Your altars, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

¹⁰ For one day in Your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

¹ A song of ascents. Of David. I rejoiced in those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."

⁹ For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

²² Hezekiah said: "What will be the sign that I will go up to the Temple of the LORD?"

⁴ "'"Do not trust in deceptive words. They say: 'This is the Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD, and the Temple of the LORD.

³⁰ "That is why you will prophecy all these things to them and say: the LORD roars from above. He thunders from his holy dwelling place. He roars against his land. He shouts like those who stomp grapes. He shouts against all those who live on earth.

⁸ If the LORD delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;

¹⁵ But the people of Israel said to the LORD: "We have sinned. Do to us what seems best to you, only please, save us today!"

¹⁸ And Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seems to him good.

²⁰ He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.

⁹ Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's everlasting love for Israel, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness."

⁸ Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for the LORD your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness."

²⁰ And Job rose up and tore his robe, and shaved his head. And he fell down on the ground and worshiped. ²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked I will return there. the LORD gave and the LORD has taken away, praise the name of the LORD.

⁹ I remain silent; I do not open my mouth, for you are the one who acted

¹ "Look my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the nations.

⁴ You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married.

²⁸ "Is this man Jehoiachin a despised and shattered jar, a vessel no one wants? Why were he and his descendants hurled away, thrown into a land that they didn't know?

⁴¹ I'll rejoice over them to do good for them, and I'll faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.

¹⁰ Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,

⁹ (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he would say: "Come, let us go up to the seer." For the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.)

³⁴ But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; I have been your father's servant until now, and now I also will be your servant, then you may break down the advice of Ahithophel for me.

³⁶ Lo, there with them [are] their two sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jonathan to Abiathar, and you have sent by their hand unto me anything that you hear..

¹⁷ Now, Jonathan and Ahimaaz, were staying by En-rogel, and a maidservant was to go and tell them, and, they, were to go and tell King David,—for they might not be seen to eater the city.

¹¹ Before David arose the next morning, the word of the LORD came to Gad, David's seer:

⁵ All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

²³ And all the land wept aloud as all the people went by. And the king also passed over the Kidron Valley, and all the people passed by on the Olive road into the wilderness.

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

¹⁶ So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

⁴ But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

¹² And Mordecai returned to the palace. But Haman went home mourning, and covered his head.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

⁵ Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him, my salvation and my God.

⁵ Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. ⁶ He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

² At that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: "Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet." He did this and went around stripped and barefoot. ³ the LORD said: "Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, ⁴ so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared to Egypt's shame.

³ Their nobles send their young people for water. They go to the cisterns, but they find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They're disappointed and dismayed, and they cover their heads in shame. ⁴ The ground is cracked, because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers are disappointed, and they cover their heads in shame.

¹⁷ "Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men."

²³ Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

⁴ His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley, with half of the mountain moving toward the north and half toward the south.

⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

²⁹ When He approached Bethphage and Bethany by the hill called the Mount of Olives, He sent on two of His disciples, and

³⁷ When he had almost reached the place where the road led down the Mount of Olives, every one of the many disciples began in their joy to praise God loudly for all the miracles that they had seen:

⁴¹ As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

³⁷ Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.

³⁹ Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.

¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, only half a mile away.

²⁶ If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

¹² Absalom was offering sacrifices. He sent for Ahithophel, David's adviser, to come from his home in Giloh. Meanwhile, the conspiracy grew stronger. The number of people siding with Absalom kept getting larger.

²³ Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God. David and Absalom followed it.

¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

¹⁶ "To him belong strength and victory. Both deceived and deceivers are his. ¹⁷ "He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges. ¹⁸ "He takes off the bonds put on by kings and ties a belt around their waist. ¹⁹ "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows men long established. ²⁰ "He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

¹² If an enemy had insulted me, then I could tolerate it. If someone who hated me had attacked me, then I could hide from him.

¹⁴ We who together made sweet deliberation, We walked with the foregathering crowd in the House of Elohim." ¹⁵ Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

³ And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:

³ "The Egyptians will become discouraged. I will bring their plans to nothing. They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

¹¹ The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: "I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings?" ¹² Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the LORD Almighty has purposed (planned) (resolved) against Egypt. ¹³ The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis (Noph) are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. ¹⁴ the LORD has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit. ¹⁵ There is nothing Egypt can do head or tail, palm branch or reed. ¹⁶ In that day the Egyptians will be like women and they will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD Almighty, which he shakes over them. ¹⁷ And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of the LORD Almighty that he is planning against him. ¹⁸ In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD Almighty; one shall be called the City of Ruin. ¹⁹ In that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border. ²⁰ And it will be a sign and a witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. ²¹ the LORD will make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the LORD and perform it. ²² The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas, and will heal them. ²³ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will come to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth: ²⁵ the LORD Almighty has blessed, saying: Blessed is Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

⁸ How can you say, "We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?" But, look, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. ⁹ The wise men will be put to shame. They'll be dismayed and taken captive. Look, they have rejected the word of the LORD! So what kind of wisdom do they have?

¹⁴ Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” ²⁰ And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

² It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

² On the third day, a man came from the camp from being with Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down.

¹⁹ Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which was on her. She put her hand on her head, and she went away, crying out as she went.

³⁰ Now David was going up on the Ascent of the Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered their head and wept as they went.

¹⁶ Then Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom and said, Long life to the king, long life to the king! ¹⁷ Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend? ¹⁸ And Hushai said to Absalom, No, but whom the LORD and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and I will stay with him. ¹⁹ And secondly, to whom shall I serve? Should I not serve before his son? Just as I served before your father, so I will be before you.

⁴⁴ »When your people go to war against their enemies, they pray to you, O the LORD, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I built for your name. ⁴⁵ then hear in Heaven their prayer and their cry, and maintain their cause.

⁷ Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon.

³ But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. ⁴ I cry to LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah. ⁵ I lie down and sleep, I wake up, because the LORD sustains me.

⁷ Arise, LORD. Save me, my God. For you slap all my enemies in the face. You break the teeth of the wicked.

¹ For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. ² O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah. ³ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself. the LORD hears when I call to Him.

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

¹⁵ He will call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

³⁵ I am eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?

² You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

²⁰ "In fact you came to us just yesterday. Should I make you wander around with me when I do not even know where I am going? Go back and take your countrymen with you. May the LORD always show you kindness."

⁵ Absalom replied, "Call in Hushai the Archite so I can hear what he has to say, too!" ⁶ When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up." ⁷ And Hushai said to Absalom, The advice which Ahithophel has given is not good at this time. ⁸ "You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others. ⁹ Behold, he is hidden now in some pit, or in one of the places. And it shall be, at the falling among them at the first, whoever hears will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom. ¹⁰ And even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and those who are with him are valiant men. ¹¹ "My advice is to gather all Israel's troops from Dan to Beersheba. They are as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Lead them into battle yourself. ¹² »Find him and attack him! We will fall on him as dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive. ¹³ Even if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there is not even a pebble to be found." ¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now the LORD had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for the LORD to bring misery upon Absalom). ¹⁵ Hushai told the priests Zadok and Abiathar: »Ahithophel advised Absalom and the leaders of Israel to do one thing. But I advised them to do something else. ¹⁶ So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

¹⁹ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, Let me run now and carry the good news to the king, for the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies. ²⁰ And Joab said, You will take no news today; another day you may give him the news, but you will take no news today, because the king's son is dead. ²¹ Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen"; then the Cushite bowed down to Joab and ran off. ²² Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again said to Joab, "Come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab asked, "Why are you wanting to run, my son, when for you there is no messenger's reward?" ²³ And he said, "But come what may, I will run." He said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. ²⁴ David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman walked along the roof of the gate by the wall. He looked at the man running alone. ²⁵ The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, "If he is alone, there is good news in his mouth." He came closer and closer. ²⁶ The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, "Look, a man running alone." And the king said, "He also brings good news." ²⁷ The watchman said: "It appears the first one runs like Ahimaaz, Zadok's son. He's a good man," the king said. "He must be coming with good news." ²⁸ And Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king." ²⁹ And the king said, Is the young man Abshalom safe? And Achima’az answered, I saw the greatest crowd when Joab sent off the king’s servant, and thy servant; but I know not what hath happened. ³⁰ The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still. ³¹ Suddenly the Cushite arrived and said, "May my lord the king receive the good news, for the LORD has vindicated you today from the power of all who stood up against you." ³² The king said to the Cushite, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like the young man!" ³³ The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom. My son, my son Absalom. I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son."

¹⁵ And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. ¹⁶ Then Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom and said, Long life to the king, long life to the king!