Verse 17

So your servant said,‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the LORD your God be with you!’”

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 19:27 : 27 But my servant has slandered me to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems appropriate to you.
• 1 Sam 29:9 : 9 Achish replied to David,“I am convinced that you are as reliable as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said,‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’
• 2 Sam 14:20 : 20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.”
• 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours.”
• 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed divine wisdom to make judicial decisions.
• Job 6:30 : 30 Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?
• Prov 27:21 : 21 As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.
• Prov 29:5 : 5 The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
• 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.
• Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.