2 Samuel 18:4

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And the king sayde vnto them: What seemeth you best, that wil I do. And the king stoode by the gate syde, and all the people came out by hundredes, and by thousandes.

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  • 2 Sam 18:24 : 24 And Dauid sate betweene the two gates: And the watchman went vp to the roofe ouer the gate vnto the wal, and lift vp his eyes and sawe, & beholde there came a man runnyng alone.
  • Isa 28:6 : 6 He wylbe also a spirite of perfect knowledge to him that sitteth in iudgement, and strength vnto them that turne away the battayle to the gate of the enemies.
  • 1 Sam 29:2 : 2 And the princes of the Philistines went foorth by hundreds and thousandes: But Dauid and his men came behinde with Achis.
  • 2 Sam 18:1 : 1 And Dauid numbred the people that were with him, and set captaynes of thousandes and of hundredes ouer them.

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  • 2 Sam 18:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    5 And the king commaunded Ioab, and Abisai, and Ithai, saying: Intreate the young man Absalom gently for my sake. And all the people hearde that the king gaue all the captaynes charge concerning Absalom.

    6 And so the people wet out into the fielde against Israel (and the battel was in the wood of Ephraim)

  • 2 Sam 18:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 And Dauid numbred the people that were with him, and set captaynes of thousandes and of hundredes ouer them.

    2 And Dauid set foorth the third part of the people vnder the hande of Ioab, and the third part vnder the hand of Abisai the sonne of Zaruia Ioabs brother, and the other third part vnder the hand of Ithai the Gethite: And the king said vnto the people, I will go with you my selfe also.

    3 And the people aunswered, Thou shalt not go foorth: for if we flee away, they wil not care for vs, neither shal they regard vs, though halfe of vs were slaine: but thou art nowe worth ten thousande of vs, Wherfore it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie.

  • 2 Sam 19:7-10
    4 verses
    77%

    7 Nowe therfore vp, and come out, and speake cofortably vnto thy seruauntes: For I sweare by the Lorde, except thou come out, there will not tary one man with thee this night, and that wilbe worse vnto thee, then all the euyll that fell on thee from thy youth vnto this houre.

    8 Then the king arose, and sate in the gate: And they tolde vnto all the people, saying, beholde the king doth sit in the gate, and all the people came before the king: For Israel had fled, euery man to his tent.

    9 And al ye people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, & he deliuered vs out of the hande of the Philistines, and nowe he is fled out of the lande for Absalom:

    10 But Absalom whom we annoynted ouer vs, is dead in battell: Therefore, why are ye so still, that ye bring not the king agayne?

  • 2 Sam 18:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29 And the king sayd: Is the young man Absalom safe? Ahimaaz aunswered: When Ioab sent the kinges seruaunt, and me thy seruaunt, I sawe a great tumult, but I wote not what it was.

    30 And the king sayde vnto him: Turne aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stoode styll.

  • 2 Sam 15:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13 And ther came a messenger to Dauid, and sayde: The heartes of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom.

    14 And Dauid said vnto all his seruautes that were with him at Hierusalem: Up, that we may flee, for we shall not els escape from Absalom: Make speede to departe, lest he come sodenly & catche vs, and bring euyll vpon vs, and smyte the citie with the edge of the sworde.

    15 And the kinges seruauntes sayd vnto him: Beholde, thy seruauntes are redy to do whatsoeuer my lord the king shall appoynt.

  • 2 Sam 15:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2 And Absalom rose vp early, and stoode in the place of the entring in of the gate: And euery man that had any matter and came to the king for iudgement, him did Absalom cal vnto him, and sayde: Of what citie art thou? He aunswered: Thy seruaunt is of one of the tribes of Israel.

    3 And Absalom said vnto him: See, thy matters are good and righteous, but there is no man deputed of the king to heare thee.

    4 Absalom sayde moreouer: Oh, that I were made iudge in the land, that euery man which hath any plea and matter in the lawe, might come to me, and that I might do him iustice.

  • 2 Sam 13:24-27
    4 verses
    73%

    24 And came to the king, and saide: Beholde, thy seruaunt hath sheepe shearers, I pray thee that the king with his seruauntes come to thy seruaunt.

    25 The king aunswered Absalom: Nay my sonne, I pray thee let vs not go all, lest we be chargeable vnto thee. And Absalom laye sore vpon him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

    26 Then saide Absalom: but I pray thee shall not my brother Amnon go with vs? And the king aunswered him: what needeth it that he go with thee?

    27 But Absalom made such instaunce, that he let Amnon & all the kinges children go with him.

  • 2 Sam 19:38
    73%

    38 And the king aunswered: Chimham shall go with me, and I will do to him that thou shalt be content with: And what soeuer thou shalt require of me, that same will I do for thee.

  • 2 Sam 17:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 And wil bring againe all the people vnto thee: and when al shall returne, the man whom thou sekest beyng slayne all the people shalbe in peace.

    4 And the saying pleased Absalom wel and al the elders of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 14:32
    72%

    32 And Absalo aunswered Ioab: Behold, I sent for thee, desiring thee to come, because I woulde haue sent thee to the king, for to say, Wherfore am I come from Gesur? It had ben better for me to haue ben there still: Nowe therfore would I see the kinges face: And if ther be any trespasse in me, let hym kil me.

  • 2 Sam 3:36
    72%

    36 And all the people wist it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the king did, pleased all the people.

  • 2 Sam 13:34
    72%

    34 But Absalom fled: And ye young man that kept the watch, lyft vp his eyes & loked, and beholde there came much people by the way of the hill syde behinde him.

  • 2 Sam 16:20
    71%

    20 Then spake Absalom to Ahithophel: Geue counsel what we shall do.

  • 1 Sam 14:40
    71%

    40 Then he sayde vnto al Israel: Be ye on one syde, and I and Ionathan my sonne will be on the other syde. And the people saide vnto Saul: What thou thinkest best, that do.

  • 2 Sam 19:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 And the people went that day into the citie by stealth, as people confounded to conuey themselues when they flee in battell.

    4 But the king hyd his face, and cryed with a loude voyce: O my sonne Absalom, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne.

  • 1 Chr 21:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 And Ioab aunswered: The Lorde make his people an hundred times so many mo as they be: But my lorde, O king, are they not all my lordes seruauntes? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will my lorde be a cause of trespasse to Israel?

    4 Neuerthelesse the kinges word preuayled against Ioab: And Ioab departed, and walked throughout all them of Israel, and came to Hierusalem againe,

  • 2 Sam 14:21
    71%

    21 And the king sayd vnto Ioab: Behold, I haue done this thing: Go & bring the young man Absalom againe.

  • 2 Sam 18:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32 And the king sayde vnto Chusi: Is the young man Absalom safe? Chusi aunswered: The enemies of my lorde the king, and all that ryse against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.

    33 And the king was moued, and went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he sayde, O my sonne Absalom, my sonne, my sonne Absalom: woulde God I had died for thee, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne.

  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 And the king went foorth and all the people at his feete, and taried in a place that was farre of.

    18 And al his seruauntes went about him: and all the Cerethites, and all the Phelethites, and all the Gethites, euen sixe hundred men whiche were come after him from Geth, went before the king.

  • 2 Sam 18:12
    71%

    12 The man sayd vnto Ioab: Though I should receaue a thousande sicles of siluer in myne hande, yet woulde I not stretche out myne hand against ye kinges sonne: For we heard with our eares when the king charged thee, & Abisai, and Ithai, saying: Beware that none touche the young man Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 24:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 And Ioab saide vnto the king: The Lorde thy God encrease the people an hundreth folde mo then they be, & that the eyes of my lorde the king may see it: And what is the cause that my lorde the king hath a lust to this thyng?

    4 Notwithstanding, the kinges word preuayled agaynst Ioab & against the captaines of the hoast: And Ioab & the captaynes of the hoast, went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 13:1
    70%

    1 And Dauid counsailed with the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes, and with al the Lordes,

  • 2 Sam 15:34
    70%

    34 But if thou returne to the citie, and say vnto Absalom, I will be thy seruaunt O king: as I haue thus long ben thy fathers seruaunt, so am I nowe thy seruaunt, thou mayest for my sake destroy the counsel of Ahithophel.

  • 2 Sam 19:1
    70%

    1 And it was told Ioab, beholde the king weepeth, & mourneth for Absalom.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    70%

    20 And nowe my lorde O king, the eyes of all Israel wayte on thee, that thou shouldest tell them who ought to sit on the seate of my lord the king after him:

  • 2 Sam 17:9
    70%

    9 Behold he is hyd nowe in some caue, or in some other place: And though some of his men be ouerthrowen at the first brunt, yet they that heare it, will say: The people that foloweth Absalom, be put to the worse.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24 Then Dauid came to Mahanaim, And Absalom passed ouer Iordane, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    70%

    24 And the king sayde: Let him turne to his owne house, & not see my face. And so Absalo returned to his owne house, and sawe not the kinges face.

  • 2 Sam 15:6
    69%

    6 And on this maner dyd Absalom to al Israel that came to the king for iudgement: so Absalom stale the heartes of the men of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    69%

    8 And the king sayde vnto the woman: Go home to thyne house, I wyll geue a charge for thee.

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