Bible Cross References
in her wisdom
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom makes the wise stronger than ten who dominate the city.
Ecclesiastes 9:14-18
14
There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it.
15
And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that poor man.
16
And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17
The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more than the shouts of him who rules among fools.
18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
he blew
2 Samuel 20:1
And there met them there a man of worthlessness, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a shofar, and said: We have no part in David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!
2 Samuel 2:28
So Joab blew a shofar; and all the people stood still and did not pursue after Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore.
2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab blew the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing Israel. For Joab had held back the people.
And Joab
2 Samuel 3:28-39
28
And afterward, when David heard it, he said, My kingdom and I are guiltless before Jehovah forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
29
May it whirl about on the head of Joab and on all his father's house; and let there never fail to be in the house of Joab one who has a discharge or is a leper, who leans on a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.
30
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31
And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Abner. And King David walked behind the coffin.
32
And they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
33
And the king lamented over Abner and said: Should Abner die the death of a fool?
34
Your hands were not bound nor your feet put into fetters; as a man falls before wicked men, so you have fallen. Then all the people wept over him again.
35
And when all the people came to give David food to eat while it was still day, David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down!
36
And all the people took note of it, and it was good in their eyes, even as whatever the king had done was good in the eyes of all the people.
37
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been from the king, to kill Abner the son of Ner.
38
And the king said to his servants, Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
39
And I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too severe for me. Jehovah shall repay the evildoer according to his evil.
2 Samuel 11:6-21
6
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7
And when Uriah came to him, David asked after Joab's welfare, and the people's welfare, and the progress of the war.
8
And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a portion of food from the king followed him.
9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10
So when they reported to David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why have you not gone down to your house?
11
And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped on the face of the land. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
12
And David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you away. So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13
And when David summoned him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14
In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the strongest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.
16
So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.
17
And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18
And Joab sent and reported to David all the things concerning the war,
19
and charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished speaking of the matters of the war to the king,
20
if it happens that the king's wrath arises, and he says to you: Why did you approach so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21
Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall? then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite has died also.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.