2 Samuel 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 26:30 : 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
  • Esth 1:3 : 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for 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 Abner also spoke 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 to the whole house of Benjamin.

  • 2 Sam 3:21-26
    6 verses
    81%

    21 Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

    22 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, 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 army who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

    25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do."

    26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn't know it.

  • 2 Sam 3:12
    75%

    12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring all Israel around to you."

  • 1 Chr 12:39
    75%

    39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
    75%

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

  • 2 Sam 3:6
    74%

    6 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    74%

    21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 2 Sam 2:29-31
    3 verses
    73%

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

    30 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 struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    73%

    12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    72%

    40 When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    72%

    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the 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 covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    72%

    25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • Gen 26:30
    72%

    30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

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

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

    31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 20:24
    71%

    24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
    71%

    17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
    71%

    8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    71%

    15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 3:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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

  • 1 Chr 12:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

    17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it."

  • 2 Sam 16:15
    70%

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

  • 2 Sam 3:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

    10 to transfer 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
    70%

    13 When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    70%

    17 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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
    70%

    3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.

  • 2 Sam 17:27
    70%

    27 It happened, 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
    70%

    36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

  • 1 Sam 9:22
    70%

    22 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.

  • Judg 19:21
    70%

    21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

    13 David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

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    4 Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present."

  • 1 Chr 11:1
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    1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

  • 1 Sam 30:15-16
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    15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

    16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, 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.