Bible Cross References
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Proverbs 20:8
Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.
1 Samuel 22:8-23
8
That you are conspiring against me, and there is no one that informs me, whereas my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or informs me, that my son has stirred up my servant against me for an enemy, as it is this day?
9
And Doeg the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse as he came to Nob, to Abimelech son of Ahitub the priest.
10
And the priest inquired of God for him, and gave him provision, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11
And the king sent to call Abimelech son of Ahitub and all his father's sons, the priests that were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
12
And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he said, Behold, I am here, speak, my lord.
13
And Saul said to him, Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, that you should give him bread and a sword, and should inquire of God for him, to raise him up against me as an enemy, as he is this day?
14
And he answered the king, and said, And who is there among all your servants as faithful as David, and he is a son-in-law of the king, and he is executor of all your commands, and is honorable in your house?
15
Have I begun today to inquire of God for him? By no means: let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against any of my father's house, for your servant knew not in all these matters anything great or small.
16
And King Saul said, You shall surely die, Abimelech; you and all your father's house.
17
And the king said to the footmen that attended on him, Come here and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and they did not inform me. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priest of the Lord.
18
And the king said to Doeg, Turn, and fall upon the priests: and Doeg the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod.
19
And he struck Nob, the city of the priest, with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and ox, and also sheep.
20
And one son of Abimelech son of Ahitub escaped, and his name was Abiathar, and he fled after David.
21
And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain all the priests of the Lord.
22
And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doeg the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of your father.
23
Dwell with me; fear not, for wherever I shall seek a place of safety for my life, I will also seek a place for your life, for you are safely guarded while [you are] with me.
1 Samuel 23:19-23
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And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jeshimon?
20
And now [according to] all the king's desire to come down, let him come down to us; they have shut him up into the hands of the king.
21
And Saul said to them, Blessed are you of the Lord, for you have been grieved on my account.
22
Go, I pray, and make preparations yet, and notice his place where his foot shall be, quickly, in that place which you spoke of, lest by any means he should deal craftily.
23
Take notice, then, and learn, and I will go with you. And it shall come to pass that if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
2 Samuel 3:7-11
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And Saul had a concubine [named] Rizpah, the daughter of Jol; and Ishbosheth the son of Saul said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
8
And Abner was very angry with Ishbosheth for this saying; and Abner said to him, Am I a dog's head? I have this day showed kindness with the house of Saul your father, and with his brethren and friends, and have not gone over to the house of David, and do you this day seek a charge against me concerning injury to a woman?
9
God do thus and more also to Abner, if as the Lord swore to David, so do I not to him this day;
10
to take away the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to raise up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba.
11
And Ishbosheth could not any longer answer Abner a word, because he feared him.
2 Samuel 4:5-12
5
And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Berothite set out, and they came in the heat of the day into the house of Ishbosheth; and he was sleeping on a bed at noon.
6
And behold, the porter of the house winnowed wheat, and he slumbered and slept. And the brothers Rechab and Baanah went secretly into the house.
7
And Ishbosheth was sleeping on his bed in his chamber. And they struck him, and killed him, and took off his head. And they took his head, and went all the night by the western road.
8
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the Lord has executed vengeance on His enemies for my lord the king, as [it is] this day: even on Saul your enemy, and on his seed.
9
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Berothite, and said to them, [As] the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction;
10
he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me. But I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, to whom I ought, [as he thought], to have given a reward or his tidings.
11
And now evil men have slain a righteous men in his house, [and] on his bed. Now then, I will require his blood from your hand, and I will destroy you from off the earth.
12
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet; and they hung them up at the fountain in Hebron. And they buried the head of Ishbosheth in the tomb of Abner the son of Ner.
1 Kings 21:11-13
11
And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.
12
And they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.
13
And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, You have 6blasphemed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.
2 Kings 10:6
And Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, If you [are] for me, and hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and bring [them] to me at this time tomorrow in Jezreel. Now the sons of the king were seventy men; these great men of the city brought them up.
2 Kings 10:7
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons and killed them, [all] seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
Psalm 52:2-4
2
your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.
3
You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
4
You have loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 101:5-7
5
Him that secretly speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from [me]; he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart- with him I have not eaten.
6
My eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me.
7
He that is proud dwelled not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.