Bible Cross References
let the king
2 Samuel 11:8-15
8
Then he said to Uriah, "Go on home and rest a while." Uriah left, and David had a present sent to his home.
9
But Uriah did not go home; instead he slept at the palace gate with the king's guards.
10
When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he asked him, "You have just returned after a long absence; why didn't you go home?"
11
Uriah answered, "The men of Israel and Judah are away in battle, and the Covenant Box is with them; my commander Joab and his officers are camping out in the open. How could I go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife? By all that's sacred, I swear that I could never do such a thing!"
12
So David said, "Then stay here the rest of the day, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13
David invited him to supper and got him drunk. But again that night Uriah did not go home; instead he slept on his blanket in the palace guardroom.
14
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah.
15
He wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed."
Psalm 12:2
All of them lie to one another; they deceive each other with flattery.
Psalm 55:21
His words were smoother than cream, but there was hatred in his heart; his words were as soothing as oil, but they cut like sharp swords.
Jeremiah 41:6
So Ishmael went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he came to them, he said, "Please come in to see Gedaliah."
Jeremiah 41:7
As soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael and his men killed them and threw their bodies in a well.