Proverbs 18:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ A just man is his own accuser in his first speech; but when he is accused his adversary is refuted.

¹ And when David had marched on a little way from Eos, behold Siba, the servant of Memphibosthe, came out to meet him with a couple of asses saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and a hundred bunches of dates, and a nebel of wine. ² And the king said to Siba, What meanest thou by these? To which Siba replied, The asses are for the king's family to ride on, and the loaves and the dates for the young men to eat, and the wine for such as are fainty in the wilderness, to drink. ³ Then the king said, But where is thy master's son? And Siba said to the king, Behold he abideth in Jerusalem; for he said, Now will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

²⁴ Memphibosthe also, the grandson of Saul, came down to meet the king. Now he had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king went away, to the day he returned, in peace. ²⁵ And when he came to Jerusalem, and waited on the king, and the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Memphibosthe? ²⁶ Memphibosthe said to the king, my lord the king, my servant deceived me. For thy servant said to him, Saddle me the ass, that I may mount thereon and go with the king. [For thy servant is lame.] ²⁷ But he acted deceitfully with thy servant, before my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in thy sight.

¹³ He who answereth a matter before he heareth it, exposeth his folly and incurreth contempt.

⁵ For having found this man to be a pest and a mover of sedition, among all the Jews, through the whole empire, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, ⁶ and who attempted to profane even the temple, we apprehended him, and would have judged him according to our law;

¹² And they neither found me disputing with any man in the temple; nor raising sedition among the people, either in the synagogues or in the city: ¹³ nor can they prove any of the things which they now lay to my charge.