Bible Cross References
A. M. 2980. B.C. 1024. Absalom
2 Samuel 12:11
I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble on you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man; and he will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.
Deuteronomy 17:16
The king is not to have a large number of horses for his army, and he is not to send people to Egypt to buy horses, because the LORD has said that his people are never to return there.
1 Samuel 8:11
"This is how your king will treat you," Samuel explained. "He will make soldiers of your sons; some of them will serve in his war chariots, others in his cavalry, and others will run before his chariots.
1 Kings 1:5
Now that Absalom was dead, Adonijah, the son of David and Haggith, was the oldest surviving son. He was a very handsome man. David had never reprimanded him about anything, and he was ambitious to be king. He provided for himself chariots, horses, and an escort of fifty men.
1 Kings 1:33
he said to them, "Take my court officials with you; have my son Solomon ride my own mule, and escort him down to Gihon Spring,
1 Kings 10:26-29
26
Solomon built up a force of fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand cavalry horses. Some of them he kept in Jerusalem and the rest he stationed in various other cities.
27
During his reign silver was as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore in the foothills of Judah.
28
The king's agents controlled the export of horses from Musri and Cilicia,
29
and the export of chariots from Egypt. They supplied the Hittite and Syrian kings with horses and chariots, selling chariots for 600 pieces of silver each and horses for 150 each.
Psalm 20:7
Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the LORD our God.
Proverbs 11:2
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall.
Proverbs 17:19
To like sin is to like making trouble. If you brag all the time, you are asking for trouble.
Jeremiah 22:14-16
14
Doomed is the one who says, "I will build myself a mansion with spacious rooms upstairs." So he puts windows in his house, panels it with cedar, and paints it red.
15
Does it make you a better king if you build houses of cedar, finer than those of others? Your father enjoyed a full life. He was always just and fair, and he prospered in everything he did.
16
He gave the poor a fair trial, and all went well with him. That is what it means to know the LORD.