Bible Cross References
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2 Samuel 15:20
"In fact, you came [only] yesterday. Should I make you wander up and down with us today, since I go I know not where? Return, and take your brethren back. Mercy and truth [be] with you."
Joshua 8:2
"And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it."
Matthew 10:16
" Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
as I have been
2 Samuel 16:16-19
16
And so it was, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, "[Long] live the king! [Long] live the king!"
17
So Absalom said to Hushai, "[Is] this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not 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 I will be, and with him I will remain.
19
"Furthermore, whom should I serve? [Should I] not [serve] in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence."
then mayest
2 Samuel 17:5-14
5
Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he says too."
6
And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken in this manner. Shall we do as he says? If not, speak up."
7
So Hushai said to Absalom: "The advice that Ahithophel has given [is] not good at this time.
8
"For," said Hushai, "you know your father and his men, that they [are] mighty men, and they [are] enraged in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father [is] a man of war, and will not camp with the people.
9
"Surely by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some [other] place. And it will be, when some of them are overthrown at the first, that whoever hears [it] will say, 'There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.'
10
"And even he [who is] valiant, whose heart [is] like the heart of a lion, will melt completely. For all Israel knows that your father [is] a mighty man, and [those] who [are] with him [are] valiant men.
11
"Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.
12
"So we will come upon him in some place where he may be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And of him and all the men who [are] with him there shall not be left so much as one.
13
"Moreover, if he has withdrawn into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city; and we will pull it into the river, until there is not one small stone found there."
14
So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disaster on Absalom.