2 Samuel 3:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 26:30 : 30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
  • Esth 1:3 : 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:

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  • 2 Sam 3:19
    82%

    19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.

  • 2 Sam 3:21-26
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    81%

    21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

    22 ¶ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from [pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was] not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

    23 When Joab and all the host that [was] with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

    25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

    26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew [it] not.

  • 2 Sam 3:12
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    12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose [is] the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.

  • 1 Chr 12:39
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    39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
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    17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:

  • 2 Sam 3:6
    74%

    6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    21 ¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

  • 2 Sam 2:29-31
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    73%

    29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

    30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

    31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
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    12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
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    40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Sam 5:3
    72%

    3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
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    25 ¶ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

  • Gen 26:30
    72%

    30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

  • 2 Sam 3:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

    31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 20:24
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    24 ¶ So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3 And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
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    8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  • 2 Sam 2:15
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    15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 3:36-37
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    36 And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

    37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

  • 1 Chr 12:16-17
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    70%

    16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

    17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if [ye be come] to betray me to mine enemies, seeing [there is] no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look [thereon], and rebuke [it].

  • 2 Sam 16:15
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    15 ¶ And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

  • 2 Sam 3:9-10
    2 verses
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    9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;

    10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

  • 2 Sam 11:13
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    13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17 And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

  • 2 Sam 17:27
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    27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

  • 1 Sam 25:36
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    36 ¶ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

  • 1 Sam 9:22
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    22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.

  • Judg 19:21
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    21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
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    12 ¶ So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

    13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

  • 2 Sam 20:4
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    4 ¶ Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

  • 1 Chr 11:1
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    1 ¶ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

  • 1 Sam 30:15-16
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    15 And 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.

    16 And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.