Bible Cross References
in her wisdom
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom strengthens the wise More than ten rulers of the city.
Ecclesiastes 9:14-18
14
[There was] a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great snares around it.
15
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.
16
Then I said: "Wisdom [is] better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, And his words are not heard.
17
Words of the wise, [spoken] quietly, [should be] heard Rather than the shout of a ruler of fools.
18
Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war; But one sinner destroys much good."
he blew
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a rebel, whose name [was] Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet, and said: "We have no share 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 trumpet; and all the people stood still and did not pursue Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore.
2 Samuel 18:16
So Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel. For Joab held back the people.
And Joab
2 Samuel 3:28-39
28
Afterward, when David heard [it,] he said, "My kingdom and I [are] guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
29
"Let it rest 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
Then 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 followed the coffin.
32
So 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 sang [a lament] over Abner and said: "Should Abner die as a fool dies?
34
Your hands were not bound Nor your feet put into fetters; As a man falls before wicked men, [so] you fell." Then all the people wept over him again.
35
And when all the people came to persuade David to eat food while it was still day, David took an oath, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"
36
Now all the people took note [of it,] and it pleased them, since whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's [intent] to kill Abner the son of Ner.
38
Then 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 harsh for me. The LORD shall repay the evildoer according to his wickedness."
2 Samuel 11:6-21
6
Then David sent to Joab, [saying,] "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7
When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.
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 gift [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 told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11
And Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. 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
Then David said to Uriah, "Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13
Now when David called 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 hottest 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
Then 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
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,
19
and charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,
20
if it happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you: 'Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21
'Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a 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 is dead also.' "
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because the 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.