Bible Language Cross References for the verse 1 Kings 4:0 in NET
- 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 The king asked Ziba, "Why did you bring these things?" Ziba replied, "The donkeys are for the king's family to ride on, the loaves of bread and the summer fruit are for the attendants to eat, and the wine is for those who get exhausted in the desert."
- 3 The king asked, "Where is your master's grandson?" Ziba replied to the king, "He remains in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather's kingdom.'"
- 4 The king said to Ziba, "Everything that was Mephibosheth's now belongs to you." Ziba replied, "I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king."
- 5 Then King David reached Bahurim. There a man from Saul's extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached.
- 6 He threw stones at David and all of King David's servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.
- 7 As he yelled curses, Shimei said, "Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man!
- 8 The LORD has punished you for all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!"
- 9 Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!"
- 10 But the king said, "What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David!', who can say to him, 'Why have you done this?'"
- 11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him.
- 12 Perhaps the LORD will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse."
- 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.
- 14 The king and all the people who were with him arrived exhausted at their destination, where David refreshed himself.
- 15 Now when Absalom and all the men of Israel arrived in Jerusalem, Ahithophel was with him.
- 16 When David's friend Hushai the Arkite came to Absalom, Hushai said to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"
- 17 Absalom said to Hushai, "Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"
- 18 Hushai replied to Absalom, "No, I will be loyal to the one whom the LORD, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen.
- 19 Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you."
- 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice. What should we do?"
- 21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, "Have sex with your father's concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you."
- 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- 23 In those days Ahithophel's advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel.
- 1 A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.
- 2 Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!
- 3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
- 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
- 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
- 6 You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
- 7 Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)
- 8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
- 9 My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O LORD, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.
- 10 Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)
- 11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?
- 12 Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
- 13 As for me, I cry out to you, O LORD; in the morning my prayer confronts you.
- 14 O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
- 15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.
- 16 Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.
- 17 They surround me like water all day long; they join forces and encircle me.
- 18 You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.
- 1 A well-written song by Ethan the Ezrachite. I will sing continually about the LORD's faithful deeds; to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness.
- 2 For I say, "Loyal love is permanently established; in the skies you set up your faithfulness."
- 3 The LORD said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:
- 4 'I will give you an eternal dynasty and establish your throne throughout future generations.'" (Selah)
- 5 O LORD, the heavens praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly.
- 6 For who in the skies can compare to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings,
- 7 a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
- 8 O LORD, sovereign God! Who is strong like you, O LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you.
- 9 You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.
- 10 You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
- 11 The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.
- 12 You created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- 13 Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.
- 14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule.
- 15 How blessed are the people who worship you! O LORD, they experience your favor.
- 16 They rejoice in your name all day long, and are vindicated by your justice.
- 17 For you give them splendor and strength. By your favor we are victorious.
- 18 For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- 19 Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said: "I have energized a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people.
- 20 I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.
- 21 My hand will support him, and my arm will strengthen him.
- 22 No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.
- 23 I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.
- 24 He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories.
- 25 I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.
- 26 He will call out to me, 'You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.'
- 27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth's kings.
- 28 I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.
- 29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, and make his throne as enduring as the skies above.
- 30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,
- 31 if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,
- 32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.
- 33 But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.
- 34 I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.
- 35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.
- 36 His dynasty will last forever. His throne will endure before me, like the sun,
- 37 it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies." (Selah)
- 38 But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.
- 39 You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
- 40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.
- 41 All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.
- 42 You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.
- 43 You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.
- 44 You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.
- 45 You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame. (Selah)
- 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
- 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
- 48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
- 49 Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?
- 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!
- 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
- 52 The LORD deserves praise forevermore! We agree! We agree! Book 4 (Psalms 90-106)
- 1 The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
- 2 To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.
- 3 To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.
- 4 To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person.
- 5 (Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
- 6 To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
- 7 Fearing the LORD is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
- 9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
- 10 My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
- 11 If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
- 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
- 13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
- 14 Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal."
- 15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
- 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
- 17 Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
- 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
- 19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
- 20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;
- 21 at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
- 22 "How long will you simpletons love naivet�? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
- 23 If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.
- 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,
- 25 because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,
- 26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,
- 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
- 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
- 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD,
- 30 they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.
- 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
- 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- 33 But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.
- 1 Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song.
- 2 Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
- 3 The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
- 4 Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. How rightly the young women adore you!
- 5 I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.
- 6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!
- 7 Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!
- 8 If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.
- 9 O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
- 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.
- 11 We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver.
- 12 While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
- 13 My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.
- 14 My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi.
- 15 Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
- 16 Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;
- 17 the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
- 1 In the future the LORD's Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; it will be more prominent than other hills. People will stream to it.
- 2 Many nations will come, saying, "Come on! Let's go up to the LORD's mountain, to the temple of Jacob's God, so he can teach us his commands and we can live by his laws." For Zion will be the source of instruction; the LORD's teachings will proceed from Jerusalem.
- 3 He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.
- 4 Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. The LORD who commands armies has decreed it.
- 5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the LORD our God forever.
- 6 "In that day," says the LORD, "I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.
- 7 I will transform the lame into the nucleus of a new nation, and those far off into a mighty nation. The LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion, from that day forward and forevermore."
- 8 As for you, watchtower for the flock, fortress of Daughter Zion� your former dominion will be restored, the sovereignty that belongs to Daughter Jerusalem.
- 9 Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?
- 10 Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the LORD will deliver you from the power of your enemies.
- 11 Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, "Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!"
- 12 But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
- 13 "Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations." You will devote to the LORD the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler of the whole earth.