2 Samuel 3:9
3:9 God will severely judge Abner
if I do not do for David exactly what the
Lord has promised him,
2 Samuel 3:1
3:1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.
2 Samuel 13:14
13:14 But he refused to listen to her.
He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her.
2 Samuel 15:28
15:28 Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you
reaches me.”
2 Samuel 16:1
David Receives Gifts from Ziba
16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, and a container of wine.
2 Samuel 16:12-13
16:12 Perhaps the
Lord will notice my affliction
and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”
16:13 So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.
John 12:42-43
12:42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
12:43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.