2 Samuel 20:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

She continued, In former times, they used to say, Let them ask counsel at Abel; and so they resolved disputes.

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  • Deut 20:10-11 : 10 When you come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 And it shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found within shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you.

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  • 2 Sam 20:14-17
    4 verses
    75%

    14Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites gathered together and followed him.

    15They besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, building a siege ramp against the city that stood against the wall, and all the people with Joab battered the wall to bring it down.

    16Then a wise woman called out from the city, Listen, listen; please say to Joab, Come here, that I may speak with you.

    17When he came near her, the woman asked, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said, Listen to the words of your servant. And he answered, I am listening.

  • 2 Sam 14:2-3
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    72%

    2And Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray you, pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothes now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead:

    3And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put words in her mouth.

  • 2 Sam 16:20
    71%

    20Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

  • 2 Sam 20:19-22
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    71%

    19I am one of the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

    20Joab answered, Far be it from me, far be it from me, to swallow up or destroy.

    21The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

    22Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 14:18-20
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    70%

    18Then the king answered and said to the woman, Do not hide from me, I pray you, the thing that I shall ask you. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

    19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman answered and said, As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken: for your servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant:

    20To change the appearance of things your servant Joab has done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

  • Gen 24:57
    69%

    57So they said, "We will call the young woman and ask her personally."

  • 1 Kgs 2:14
    69%

    14He said moreover, I have something to say unto you. And she said, Speak on.

  • Ruth 1:18
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    18When she saw that she was determined to go with her, then she stopped speaking to her.

  • 1 Kgs 2:16-18
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    16And now I ask one request of you, do not deny me. And she said unto him, Speak on.

    17And he said, Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.

    18And Bathsheba said, Very well; I will speak for you to the king.

  • 1 Sam 25:33
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    33And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
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    12Then the woman said, Let your maidservant, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak on.

  • Judg 4:20
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    20Then he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, Is there a man here? you shall say, No.

  • 2 Sam 14:7-8
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    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

    8And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.

  • 2 Sam 16:23
    68%

    23And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

  • 1 Sam 25:31
    67%

    31that this will be no grief to you, nor a cause of remorse of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.

  • 1 Sam 25:35
    67%

    35So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and respected your person.

  • 1 Sam 25:24
    67%

    24And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.

  • 1 Sam 25:20
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    20And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the hill, behold, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
    66%

    9And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

  • Josh 2:21
    66%

    21And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

  • 2 Sam 20:11
    66%

    11And one of Joab's men stood by Amasa and said, Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.

  • 2 Sam 14:15
    66%

    15Now therefore I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your maidservant said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

  • 2 Sam 2:26
    66%

    26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long shall it be before you tell the people to return from pursuing their brothers?

  • 2 Sam 17:5
    66%

    5Then Absalom said, Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he says likewise.

  • 1 Sam 25:39-40
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    39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil; for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him as a wife.

    40And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
    66%

    17And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, You sought for David in times past to be king over you.

  • 2 Sam 17:21
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    21And it came to pass, after they departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told King David, and said to David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.

  • 2 Sam 18:13
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    13Otherwise I should have acted falsely against my own life: for nothing is hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.

  • 2 Sam 18:11
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    11And Joab said to the man who told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a belt.

  • Judg 18:5
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    5And they said to him, Please inquire of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be successful.

  • 2 Sam 17:19
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    19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.