2 Samuel 18:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

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  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
  • Gen 14:20 : 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
  • Gen 24:27 : 27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
  • 1 Sam 24:18 : 18 You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.
  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
  • 2 Sam 22:27 : 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
  • 2 Chr 20:26 : 26 On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, But to your name give glory, For your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
  • Ps 124:6 : 6 Blessed be Yahweh, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
  • Ps 144:1-2 : 1 > Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, Who teaches my hands to war, And my fingers to battle: 2 My loving kindness, my fortress, My high tower, my deliverer, My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.
  • Rev 19:1-3 : 1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: 2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." 3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."

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  • 2 Sam 18:29-33
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    29The 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.

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

    31Behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, News for my lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all those who rose up against you.

    32The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you hurt, be as that young man is.

    33The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!

  • 2 Sam 18:21-27
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    21Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

    22Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come what may, Please let me also run after the Cushite. Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?

    23But come what may, [said he], I will run. He said to him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

    24Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

    25The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.

    26The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. The king said, He also brings news.

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

  • 2 Sam 18:19
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    19Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.

  • 2 Sam 14:22
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    22Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.

  • 2 Sam 16:16
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    16It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, [Long] live the king, [Long] live the king.

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

    33So 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.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
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    8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

    9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 13:34-35
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    34But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.

    35Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant said, so it is.

  • 1 Sam 25:32
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    32David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me:

  • 2 Sam 18:5
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    5The 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 gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

  • 1 Chr 29:20
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    20David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped Yahweh, and the king.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
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    9The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 19:4-5
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    4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!

    5Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

  • 2 Sam 17:20-21
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    71%

    20Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

    21It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.

  • 2 Sam 17:17-18
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    71%

    17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a maid-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.

    18But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

  • 2 Sam 15:36
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    36Behold, 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 Chr 6:4
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    4He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,

  • 2 Sam 15:27
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    27The 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.

  • 2 Sam 19:27
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    27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 1:36
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    36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so [too].

  • 1 Kgs 8:15
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    15He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 1:48
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    48Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
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    14Then 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?

  • 2 Sam 3:38
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    38The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 2 Sam 15:32
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    32It happened that when David had come to the top [of the ascent], where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.

  • 2 Sam 24:20
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    20Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
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    9Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
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    32King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came before the king.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
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    15The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose.

  • 1 Sam 24:18
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    18You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

  • 2 Sam 17:4
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    4The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:23
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    23They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 24:23
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    23all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said to the king, Yahweh your God accept you.