2 Samuel 15:27

World English Bible (2000)

The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, "Come, and let us go to the seer;" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a Seer.)
  • 2 Sam 17:17 : 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
  • 2 Sam 24:11 : 11 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
  • 1 Chr 25:5 : 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
  • 2 Sam 15:34 : 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'
  • 2 Sam 15:36 : 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything that you shall hear."

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  • 2 Sam 15:34-36
    3 verses
    84%

    34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'

    35 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

    36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything that you shall hear."

  • 2 Sam 15:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

    29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem; and they stayed there.

  • 2 Sam 8:17
    76%

    17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;

  • 2 Sam 19:10-12
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    76%

    10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"

    11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

    12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

  • 2 Sam 15:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.

    25 The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

    26 but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

  • 1 Chr 18:16
    74%

    16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    73%

    32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:26-27
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    73%

    26 But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

    27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

  • 1 Kgs 2:26
    73%

    26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."

  • 2 Sam 18:27-30
    4 verses
    73%

    27 The watchman said, "I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." The king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news."

    28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!"

    29 The king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don't know what it was."

    30 The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.

  • 1 Sam 22:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

    12 Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

  • 2 Sam 13:35
    73%

    35 Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons are coming! It is as your servant said."

  • 1 Sam 22:14-17
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    72%

    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

    15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

    16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

    17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    72%

    9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
    72%

    7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

  • 2 Sam 15:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

    20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
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    71%

    1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"

    2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:35
    71%

    35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the place of Abiathar.

  • 2 Sam 18:19
    71%

    19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies."

  • 2 Sam 20:25
    71%

    25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • 1 Kgs 1:44
    71%

    44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    70%

    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Sam 22:20
    70%

    20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  • 1 Kgs 1:8
    70%

    8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

  • 1 Chr 6:53
    70%

    53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
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    24 Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?'

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    70%

    15 The king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."

  • 2 Sam 17:15
    70%

    15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

  • 1 Sam 29:7
    70%

    7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

  • 2 Sam 19:7
    70%

    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

  • 1 Chr 15:11
    69%

    11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

  • 1 Kgs 1:42
    69%

    42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, "Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news."

  • 2 Sam 16:3
    69%

    3 The king said, "Where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.'"