2 Kings 7:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

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Referenced Verses

Num 20:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
2 Chr 20:20 : 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Isa 7:9 : 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Jer 17:5-6 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Heb 3:18-19 : 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but {G3361} to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

2 Kgs 7:17-19
3 verses
85%
17And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
18And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;
19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:
1 Kgs 20:36-37
2 verses
71%
36Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
37Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.
1 Kgs 22:37
71%
37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
Acts 12:23
70%
23And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because {G3739} he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
2 Kgs 7:2
70%
2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
1 Kgs 20:42
69%
42And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
Jer 22:12
69%
12But in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
1 Kgs 13:26
69%
26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the mouth of Jehovah: therefore Jehovah hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake unto him.
2 Kgs 1:17
69%
17So he died according to the word of Jehovah which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
Jer 26:8
69%
8And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
1 Kgs 14:11-12
2 verses
69%
11Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
12Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy house: [and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
Job 18:7-8
2 verses
69%
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
Ezek 18:18
69%
18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed {H1499} his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
2 Chr 20:24
69%
24And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.
Ps 7:15
69%
15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
2 Kgs 4:40
69%
40So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
Jer 26:11
68%
11Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Judg 3:25
68%
25And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
2 Kgs 9:27
68%
27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden - house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they smote him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
1 Kgs 13:21
68%
21and he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch as thou hast been disobedient unto the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the commandment which Jehovah thy God commanded thee,
Acts 21:35
68%
35And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd;
Isa 27:7
68%
7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
1 Kgs 13:24
68%
24And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
2 Kgs 13:20
68%
20And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
Ezek 17:16
68%
16As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Isa 26:6
68%
6The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
2 Chr 21:18
68%
18And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Jer 9:21
68%
21For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
1 Kgs 20:40
68%
40And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
Jer 22:19
67%
19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 17:19
67%
19Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
2 Chr 23:15
67%
15So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.
Deut 2:16
67%
16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Jer 28:17
67%
17So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
1 Kgs 13:30
67%
30And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
2 Sam 1:15
67%
15And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him, so that he died.
1 Sam 25:38
67%
38And it came to pass about ten days after, that Jehovah smote Nabal, so that he died.
2 Kgs 9:33
67%
33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
Matt 7:27
67%
27and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
2 Sam 24:15
67%
15So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
Jer 40:3
67%
3and Jehovah hath brought it, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Isa 29:21
67%
21that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
Jer 46:16
67%
16He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.