Verse 21

Now King David heard about all these things and was very angry.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:7 : 7 Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed.
  • 1 Sam 2:22-25 : 22 Eli was very old. And he would hear about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to go to bed with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 23 So he said to them,“Why do you do these things, these evil things which I hear about from all these people? 24 No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good. 25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him then?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father. Indeed the LORD had decided to kill them.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’
  • 2 Sam 3:28-29 : 28 When David later heard about this, he said,“I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner! 29 May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
  • 2 Sam 12:5 : 5 Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan,“As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  • 2 Sam 12:10 : 10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’
  • Ps 101:8 : 8 Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the LORD.