Verse 25

You know Abner the son of Ner! Surely he came here to spy on you and to determine when you leave and when you return and to discover everything that you are doing!”

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:6 : 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
  • Isa 37:28 : 28 I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.
  • John 7:12 : 12 There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying,“He is a good man,” but others,“He deceives the common people.”
  • John 7:47 : 47 Then the Pharisees answered,“You haven’t been deceived too, have you?
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
  • 1 Sam 29:4-6 : 4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him,“Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced,‘Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands’?” 6 So Achish summoned David and said to him,“As surely as the LORD lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 10:3 : 3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun,“Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!”
  • 2 Kgs 18:32 : 32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own– a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says,“The LORD will rescue us.”
  • Ps 121:8 : 8 The LORD will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
  • Gen 42:9 : 9 Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them,“You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”
  • Gen 42:12 : 12 “No,” he insisted,“but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
  • Gen 42:16 : 16 One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
  • Num 27:17 : 17 who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”