Verse 8

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father, and his men, that they be strong men, and are chafed in minde as a beare robbed of her whelps in the fielde: also thy father is a valiant warrier, and will not lodge with the people.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.
  • 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 Then answered one of his seruauntes, and sayde, Beholde, I haue seene a sonne of Ishai, a Bethlehemite, that can plaie, and is strong, valiant and a man of warre and wise in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.
  • Heb 11:32-34 : 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would be too short for me to tell of Gedeon, of Barac, and of Sampson, and of Iephte, also of Dauid, and Samuel, and of the Prophets: 33 Which through faith subdued kingdomes, wrought righteousnesse, obteined the promises, stopped the mouthes of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sworde, of weake were made strong, waxed valiant in battell, turned to flight the armies of the aliants.
  • Prov 17:12 : 12 It is better for a man to meete a beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole in his follie.
  • Dan 7:5 : 5 And beholde, another beast which was the second, was like a beare & stood vpon the one side: and hee had three ribbes in his mouth betweene his teeth, and they saide thus vnto him, Arise and deuoure much flesh.
  • Judg 18:25 : 25 And the children of Dan sayde vnto him, Let not thy voyce be heard among vs, least angrie fellowes runne vpon thee, and thou lose thy life with the liues of thine housholde.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
  • 1 Sam 17:34-36 : 34 And Dauid answered vnto Saul, Thy seruant kept his fathers sheepe, and there came a lyon, and likewise a beare, and tooke a sheepe out of the flocke, 35 And I went out after him and smote him, and tooke it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard, and smote him, and slue him. 36 So thy seruaunt slue both the lyon, and the beare: therefore this vncircumcised Philistim shall be as one of them, seeing hee hath railed on the hoste of the liuing God.
  • 1 Sam 17:50 : 50 So Dauid ouercame the Philistim with a sling & with a stone, & smote the Philistim, and slew him, when Dauid had no sword in his hand.
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 See therefore & know all the secret places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye againe to me with the certaintie, and I will goe with you: and if he be in the lande, I will searche him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah.
  • 2 Sam 15:18 : 18 And all his seruants went about him, & all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites & all the Gittites, euen sixe hudreth men which were come after him from Gath, went before the King.
  • 2 Sam 21:18-22 : 18 And after this also there was a battell with the Philistims at Gob, then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Saph, which was one of ye sonnes of Haraphah. 19 And there was yet another battel in Gob with the Philistims, where Elhanah the sonne of Iaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite slewe Goliath the Gittite: the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame. 20 Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah. 21 And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him. 22 These foure were borne to Haraphah in Gath, and died by the hande of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.
  • 2 Sam 23:8-9 : 8 These be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid had. He that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefe of the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slewe eight hundreth at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo, the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, when they defied the Philistims gathered there to battel, when the men of Israel were gone vp.
  • 2 Sam 23:16 : 16 The the three mightie brake into the host of the Philistims, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke & brought it to Dauid, who woulde not drinke thereof, but powred it for an offring vnto ye Lord,
  • 2 Sam 23:18 : 18 And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the three, and he lifted vp his speare against three hundreth, and slewe them, and he had the name among the three.
  • 2 Sam 23:20-22 : 20 And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also, and slewe a lyon in the middes of a pit in the time of snowe. 21 And he slewe an Egyptian a man of great stature, and the Egyptian had a speare in his hande: but he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare. 22 These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among the three worthies.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he turned backe, & looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord; two beares came out of the forest, and tare in pieces two and fourtie children of them.
  • 1 Chr 11:25-47 : 25 Behold, he was honourable among thirtie, but he attained not vnto the first three. And Dauid made him of his counsell. 26 These also were valiant men of warre, Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem, 27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite, 29 Sibbecai the Husathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled ye sonne of Baanah the Netophathite, 31 Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33 Azmaueth the Baharumite, Elihaba the Shaalbonite, 34 The sonnes of Hashem the Gizonite, Ionathan the sonne of Shageh the Harite, 35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the sonne of Vr, 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahiiah the Pelonite, 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the sonne of Ezbai, 38 Ioel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the sonne of Haggeri, 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the armour bearer of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, 40 Ira the Ithrite, Garib the Ithrite, 41 Vriah the Hittite, Zabad the sonne of Ahlai, 42 Adina the sonne of Shiza the Reubenite, a captaine of the Reubenites, and thirtie with him, 43 Hanan the sonne of Maachah, and Ioshaphat the Mithnite, 44 Vzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Ieiel the sonnes of Otham the Aroerite, 45 Iediael the sonne of Shimri, and Ioha his brother the Tizite, 46 Eliel the Mahauite, and Ieribai and Ioshauiah the sonnes of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 47 Eliel and Obed, and Iaasiel the Mesobaite.