1 Samuel 24 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And David rose up from thence, and lived in the narrow passes of Engaddi. ² And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David [is] in the wilderness of Engaddi. ³ And he took with him three thousand men, chosen out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddaeem. ⁴ And he came to the flocks of sheep that were by the way, and there was a cave there; and Saul went in to make preparation, and David and his men were sitting in the inner part of the cave. ⁵ And the men of David said to him, Behold, this [is] the day of which the Lord spoke to you, that he would deliver your enemy into your hands; and you shall do to him as [it is] good in your sight. So David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's garment secretly. ⁶ And it came to pass after this that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the skirt of his garment. ⁷ And David said to his men, The Lord forbid it me, that I should do this ting to my lord the anointed of the Lord, to lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the Lord. ⁸ So David persuaded his men by [his] words, and did not suffer them to arise and kill Saul: and Saul arose and went his way. ⁹ And David rose up [and went] after him out of the cave: and David cried after Saul, saying, [My] lord, [O] king! and Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance to him. ¹⁰ And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks your life? ¹¹ Behold, your eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered you this day into my hands in the cave; and I would not kill you, but spared you, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. ¹² And behold, the skirt of your mantle [is] in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not kill you: know then and see today, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against you, yet you lay snares for my soul to take it. ¹³ The Lord judge between me and you, and the Lord requite you on yourself: but my hand shall not be upon you. ¹⁴ As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon you. ¹⁵ And now after whom do you come forth, O king of Israel? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog, and after a flea? ¹⁶ The Lord be judge and umpire between me and you, the Lord look upon and judge my cause, and rescue me out of your hand. ¹⁷ And it came to pass when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this your voice, Son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. ¹⁸ And Saul said to David, You [are] more righteous that I, for you have recompensed me good, but I have recompensed you evil. ¹⁹ And you have told me today what good you have done me, how the Lord shut me up into your hands today, and you did not kill me. ²⁰ And if any one should find his enemy in distress, and should send him forth in a good way, then the Lord will reward him good, as you has done this day. ²¹ And now, behold, I know that you shall surely reign, and the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. ²² Now then swear to me by the Lord, that you will not destroy my seed after me, that you will not blot out my name from the house of my father. ²³ So David swore to Saul: and Saul departed to his place, and David and his men went up to the strong-hold of Messera.

¹⁹ 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 Jessaemon?

²⁸ So Saul returned from following after David, and went to meet the Philistines: therefore that place was called The divided Rock.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

¹² When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.

⁹ [There are] robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.

³ They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

² And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and with him [went] three thousand men chosen out of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

¹² O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers [were].

¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,

⁶ Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.

²⁴ And he went out: and Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber [were] locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

¹ (58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. ² For you⌃ work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness. ³ Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies. ⁴ Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; ⁵ which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise. ⁶ God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions. ⁷ They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail. ⁸ They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun. ⁹ Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath. ¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. ¹¹ And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.

¹ (143) A Psalm of David, when his son pursued him. O Lord, attend to my prayer: listen to my supplication in your truth; hear me in your righteousness. ² And enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no [man] living be justified. ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark [place], as those that have been long dead. ⁴ Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me. ⁵ I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all your doings: [yes], I meditated on the works of your hands. ⁶ I spread forth my hands to you; my soul [thirsts] for you, as a dry land. Pause. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away your face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit.

⁷ And it was told Saul that David was come to Keila: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be second to you; and Saul my father knows it.

¹⁰ And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks your life?

¹⁸ And Saul said to David, You [are] more righteous that I, for you have recompensed me good, but I have recompensed you evil.

²⁸ Remove, I pray you, the trespass of your servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in you. ²⁹ And [if] a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies [as] in the midst of a sling. ³⁰ And it shall be when the Lord shall have wrought for my lord all the good things he has spoken concerning you, and shall appoint you to be ruler over Israel;

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again. ⁹ And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless? ¹⁰ And David said, [As] the Lord lives, if the Lord strike him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added [to his fathers, do not so]. ¹¹ The Lord forbid it me that I should lift up my hand against the anointed of the Lord: and now take, I pray you, the spear from his bolster, and the pitcher of water, and let us return home.

²³ And the Lord shall recompense each according to his righteousness and his truth, since the Lord delivered you this day into my hands, and I would not lift my hand against the Lord's anointed.

⁸ And they brought the head of Jebosthe to David to Chebron, and they said to the king, Behold the head of Jebosthe the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the Lord has executed for my lord the king vengeance on his enemies, as [it is] this day: even on Saul your enemy, and on his seed.

³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

⁹ Why have you set at nothing the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? you have slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

¹⁰ And the heart of David struck him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, [in] what I have now done: remove, I pray you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.

¹⁹ because your heart was softened, and you was humbled before [me], when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you did rend your garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

¹⁴ And David said to him, How was it you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord?

³ Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and your children are mine.

²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

³³ and blessed [be] your conduct, and blessed [be] you, who have hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself.

⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

³ And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying,

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.

⁴¹ And when the lad went in, then David arose from the south, and fell upon his face, and did obeisance to him three times, and they kissed each other, and wept for each other, for a great while.

²³ And Abigaia saw David, and she hasted and alighted from her ass; and she felt before David on her face, and did obeisance to him, [bowing] to the ground ²⁴ [even] to his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my wrong: let, I pray you, your servant speak in your ears, and hear you the words of your servant.

¹⁷ And Saul recognized the voice of David, and said, [Is] this your voice, son David? and David said, I [am] your servant, [my] lord, O king.

¹⁶ You shall not walk deceitfully among your people; you shall not rise up against the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they [are] cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

⁴ A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips.

⁸ Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.

²³ The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases. ²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife. ²² The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they strike [even] to the inmost parts of the bowels.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates the truth; and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.

²¹ For there is not a righteous man in the earth, who will do good, and not sin ²² Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest you hear your servant cursing you.

⁴ And he came to the flocks of sheep that were by the way, and there was a cave there; and Saul went in to make preparation, and David and his men were sitting in the inner part of the cave.

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again. ⁹ And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless?

¹⁵ And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls.

²⁷ And David arose, and went, he and his men, and struck among the Philistines a hundred men: and he brought their foreskins, and he becomes the king's son-in-law, and [Saul] gives him Melchol his daughter to wife.

¹⁴ And he lived in Maserem in the wilderness, in the narrow [passes]; and lived in the wilderness in mount Ziph, in the dry country. And Saul sought him continually, but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.

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 Juda.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for in what have I sinned? and what unrighteousness has been found in me?

²⁰ And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek your life, as the night hawk pursues [its prey] in the mountains.

¹³ And his servants came near and said to him, [Suppose] the prophet had spoken a great thing to you, would you not perform it? yet he has but said to you, Wash, and be cleansed.

¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

⁷ How have you multiplied your mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of your wings.

¹ Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.

¹⁸ We have hunted [for] our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

¹⁸ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Woe to the [women] that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:

⁵ And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by you; I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. The Lord judge between me and you.

⁵³ The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

²⁷ And now I have not sinned against you, but you wrong me in preparing war against me: may the Lord the Judge judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

⁸ The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.

¹ (36) For the end, by David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, [that] there is no fear of God before his eyes.

¹ (44) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.

¹ (95) The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to Gedeon, What [is] this [that] you have done to us, in that you did not call us when you went to fight with Madiam? and they chode with him sharply. ² And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? [is] not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³ The Lord has delivered into your hand the princes of Madiam, Oreb and Zeb; and what could I do in comparison of you? Then was their spirit calmed toward him, when he spoke this word.

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I as a dog, that you come against me with a staff and stones? [and David said, Nay, but worse than a dog.] And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

⁸ And Abenner was very angry with Jebosthe for this saying; and Abenner said to him, Am I a dog's head? I have this day wrought 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?

²⁰ And David returned to bless his house. And Melchol the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and saluted him, and said, How was the king of Israel glorified today, who was today uncovered in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the dancers wantonly uncovers himself!

⁸ And Memphibosthe did obeisance, and said, Who am I your servant, that you have looked upon a dead dog like me?

⁹ And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head.

⁷ And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Take notice now and consider, that this man seeks mischief: for he has sent to me concerning my wives, and concerning my sons, an concerning my daughters: I have not kept back from him my silver and my gold.

¹² And behold, the skirt of your mantle [is] in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not kill you: know then and see today, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against you, yet you lay snares for my soul to take it.

⁴ And David sent spies, and ascertained that Saul was come prepared out of Keila.

²² So Joas remembered not the kindness which his father Jodae had exercised towards him, but killed his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon [it], and judge.

² Hear [these] words, you⌃ people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

⁴ And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.

²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

¹¹ [As] a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so [is it] to speak a [wise] word.

²⁶ And Judas knew [them], and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.

²⁷ And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord [is] righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

²¹ And Saul said, I have sinned: turn, son David, for I will not hurt you, because my life was precious in your eyes; and today I have been foolish and have erred exceedingly.

⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

¹² And the Lord said, It will be shut up.

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again.

⁸ I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix mine eyes upon you.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which you took of yourself, and [about which] you cursed me, and spoke in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed [be] my son of the Lord.

²¹ And Saul said to them, Blessed [be] you⌃ of the Lord, for you⌃ have been grieved on my account.

²⁵ And Saul said to David, Blessed [be] you, [my] son; and you shall surely do valiantly, and surely prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

²¹ If your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; ²² for so doing you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward you [with] good.

¹⁴ But now your kingdom shall not stand to you, and the Lord shall seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord shall appoint him to be a ruler over his people, because you have not kept all that the Lord commanded you.

³⁰ And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, You son of traitorous damsels! for do I not know that you are an accomplice with the son of Jessae to your same, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? ³¹ For so long as the son of Jessae lives upon the earth, your kingdom shall not be established: now then send and take the young man, for he shall surely die.

¹⁷ And Abenner spoke to the elders of Israel, saying, In former days you⌃ sought David to reign over you; ¹⁸ and now perform [it]: for the Lord has spoken concerning David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save Israel out of the hand of all their enemies.

²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

²³ Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with you you shall deal with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned.

⁴⁸ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and you; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

¹⁴ And if indeed I continue to live, then shall you deal mercifully with me; and if I indeed die, ¹⁵ you shall not withdraw your mercy from my house for ever: and if you do not, when the Lord cuts off the enemies of David each from the face of the earth, ¹⁶ [should it happen] that the name of Jonathan be discovered by the house of David, then let the Lord seek out the enemies of David. ¹⁷ And Jonathan swore yet again to David, because he loved the soul of him that loved him.

⁶ Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give [them]. ⁷ But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite.

²⁴ A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit. ²⁵ Though [your] enemy entreat you with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.