2 Samuel 14:26

World English Bible (2000)

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

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  • 2 Sam 18:9 : 9 Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
  • Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh. 10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. 13 This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; 14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
  • 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
  • Isa 3:24 : 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
  • Gen 23:16 : 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
  • Lev 19:36 : 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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  • 2 Sam 14:23-25
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    23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

    24 The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

    25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

  • 2 Sam 13:23-25
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    23 It happened after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

    24 Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant."

    25 The king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

  • 2 Sam 14:27-29
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    27 To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

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  • 2 Sam 15:5-7
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    5 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

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  • Judg 16:22
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    22 However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

  • 2 Sam 18:11-12
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    11 Joab said to the man who told him, "Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash."

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  • 2 Sam 12:30
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    30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

  • Ezek 5:1
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    1 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

  • 1 Chr 20:2
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    2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

  • Lev 13:40-41
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    40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

    41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

  • Judg 8:26
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    26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.

  • 2 Sam 18:18
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    18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.

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  • 2 Sam 15:11-12
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    11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything.

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  • 1 Kgs 10:14
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    14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 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.

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    1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 14:32-33
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    32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

    33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

  • Judg 16:19
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    19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-11
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    10 The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

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  • 2 Sam 13:37-38
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    37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

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  • 1 Chr 28:15
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    2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."

  • Exod 38:28
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    28 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

  • Song 7:5
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    5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

  • 1 Sam 17:7
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    7 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 14:21
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    21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

  • Lev 14:9
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    9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

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    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Sam 18:5
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    5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom." All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

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    15 Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

  • Judg 16:17
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    17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

  • 1 Sam 17:5
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    5 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

  • 2 Sam 19:4
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    4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"