2 Samuel 3:35

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the LORD’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.
  • Ruth 1:17 : 17 Wherever you die, I will die– and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! Only death will be able to separate me from you!”
  • Jer 16:7 : 7 No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
  • Ezek 24:17 : 17 Groan to moan for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”
  • Ezek 24:22 : 22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
  • 1 Sam 3:17 : 17 Eli said,“What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”
  • 2 Sam 3:9 : 9 God will severely judge Abner if I do not do for David exactly what the LORD has promised him,
  • Judg 20:26 : 26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel. They wept and sat there before the LORD; they did not eat anything that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace to the LORD.

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  • 1 Sam 14:24
    77%

    24Jonathan Violates Saul’s Oath Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath:“Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.

  • 2 Sam 12:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

    17The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

  • 1 Sam 14:28
    75%

    28Then someone from the army informed him,“Your father put the army under a strict oath saying,‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”

  • 2 Sam 12:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

    21His servants said to him,“What is this that you have done? While the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

  • 2 Sam 3:36
    73%

    36All the people noticed this and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people.

  • 1 Sam 20:34
    72%

    34Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David.

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    72%

    15David said to him,“Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said,“Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”

  • Luke 6:3
    72%

    3Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    72%

    9God will severely judge Abner if I do not do for David exactly what the LORD has promised him,

  • 1 Sam 30:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    11Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

    12They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

    13David said to him,“To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” The young man said,“I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.

  • 1 Sam 26:10
    72%

    10David went on to say,“As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

  • 1 Sam 28:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”

    23But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

  • 1 Sam 20:24
    71%

    24So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    71%

    13Saul said to him,“Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    71%

    29honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”

  • 1 Sam 21:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4The priest replied to David,“I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from relations with women.”

    5David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

    6So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the LORD in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    70%

    23But David said,“No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the LORD has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

  • Matt 12:3
    70%

    3He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

  • 1 Sam 14:30
    70%

    30Certainly if the army had eaten some of the enemies’ provisions that they came across today, would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

  • 1 Sam 24:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21So now swear to me in the LORD’s name that you will not kill my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

    22David promised Saul this on oath. Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 20:27
    70%

    27But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan,“Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”

  • 1 Sam 28:20
    70%

    20Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, not having eaten anything all that day and night.

  • 1 Chr 11:19
    70%

    19and said,“God forbid that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

  • 1 Sam 25:11
    70%

    11Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    69%

    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

  • 1 Sam 25:22
    69%

    22God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”

  • 2 Sam 1:16
    69%

    16David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”

  • 2 Sam 11:13
    69%

    13Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

  • 1 Kgs 1:29
    69%

    29The king swore an oath:“As certainly as the LORD lives(he who has rescued me from every danger),

  • 1 Sam 20:5
    69%

    5David said to Jonathan,“Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    69%

    23King Solomon then swore an oath by the LORD,“May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!

  • 1 Chr 12:39
    69%

    39They spent three days feasting there with David, for their relatives had given them provisions.

  • Job 33:20
    69%

    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

  • 2 Sam 9:7
    69%

    7David said to him,“Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will give back to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will be a regular guest at my table.”

  • 1 Sam 28:25
    69%

    25She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    69%

    9David said to Saul,“Why do you pay attention when men say,‘David is seeking to do you harm’?

  • 1 Sam 26:23
    69%

    23The LORD rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. Even though today the LORD delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the LORD’s chosen one.

  • 2 Sam 23:17
    69%

    17and said,“O LORD, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

  • 2 Sam 3:20
    69%

    20When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

  • Ps 132:2
    69%

    2and how he made a vow to the LORD, and swore an oath to the Powerful One of Jacob.

  • Dan 10:3
    69%

    3I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17Jesse said to his son David,“Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.