Verse 20

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 89:34 : 34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
  • Ps 7:4 : 4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
  • Acts 12:1 : 1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
  • Ps 89:28 : 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.
  • Ps 89:38 : 38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
  • Ps 109:5 : 5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
  • Ps 120:6-7 : 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. 7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.
  • Eccl 8:2 : 2 I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.
  • Ezek 17:16-19 : 16 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. 18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.
  • 1 Sam 22:17 : 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
  • 2 Sam 2:4 : 4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."
  • 2 Sam 5:3 : 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.
  • 2 Sam 14:32-33 : 32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'" 33 So 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 15:10-12 : 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron!'" 11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything. 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 18:12 : 12 The man said to Joab, "Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.'