2 Samuel 15:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee.

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  • 1 Sam 23:13 : 13 Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
  • 2 Sam 2:6 : 6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
  • 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found [me]. 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 56:8 : 8 ¶ Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
  • Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
  • Ps 61:7 : 7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him.
  • Ps 85:10 : 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
  • Ps 89:14 : 14 Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
  • Prov 14:22 : 22 ¶ Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to them that devise good.
  • Amos 8:12 : 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 15:18-19
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    85%

    18And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

    19Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.

  • 2 Sam 15:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    21And Ittai answered the king, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

    22And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that [were] with him.

  • 2 Sam 19:7
    77%

    7Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.

  • 2 Sam 19:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

    37Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, [and be buried] by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

    38And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee.

  • 2 Sam 19:12
    75%

    12Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

  • 1 Sam 29:10
    74%

    10Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

  • 2 Sam 19:25
    74%

    25And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

  • 1 Sam 20:29
    74%

    29And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.

  • 2 Sam 15:33-35
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    74%

    33Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:

    34But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father's servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

    35And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, [that] what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

  • Num 10:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

    32And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    73%

    19For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

  • 1 Sam 29:6-8
    3 verses
    73%

    6¶ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

    7Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

    8And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

  • 1 Kgs 2:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

    7But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

  • 2 Sam 16:17
    73%

    17And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    72%

    15And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

  • 2 Sam 19:19
    72%

    19And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

  • 1 Sam 20:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

    14And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    72%

    15So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

  • 1 Sam 26:19
    72%

    19Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

  • 2 Sam 18:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

    3But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.

  • 1 Sam 20:8
    72%

    8Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

  • 2 Sam 15:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

    28See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    72%

    9And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • Josh 2:12
    72%

    12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:

  • 2 Sam 11:12
    72%

    12And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    72%

    3And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

  • 2 Sam 2:6
    72%

    6And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

  • 1 Sam 20:19
    72%

    19And [when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was [in hand], and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    71%

    23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 25:8
    71%

    8Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    71%

    8And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

  • 2 Sam 13:26
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    26Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?

  • 1 Sam 25:12
    71%

    12¶ So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

  • 1 Sam 22:3
    71%

    3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

  • 2 Sam 19:22
    71%

    22And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this day king over Israel?

  • 2 Sam 19:33
    71%

    33And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 10:2
    71%

    2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?