2Sa 15:4 Cross References
2 Samuel 15:4
4: I wish I were the judge. Then people could bring their problems to me, and I would give them justice!"
Judges 9:29
- If I were in charge, I would get rid of Abimelech. I would say to him, `Get some more soldiers, and come out and fight!'"
Proverbs 27:2
- Don't praise yourself; let others do it!
Luke 14:8
- "If you are invited to a wedding feast, don't always head for the best seat. What if someone more respected than you has also been invited?
- The host will say, 'Let this person sit here instead.' Then you will be embarrassed and will have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table!
- "Do this instead--sit at the foot of the table. Then when your host sees you, he will come and say, 'Friend, we have a better place than this for you!' Then you will be honored in front of all the other guests.
- For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored."
Proverbs 25:6
- Don't demand an audience with the king or push for a place among the great.
2 Peter 2:19
- They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves to sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
Judges 9:1
- One day Gideon's son Abimelech went to Shechem to visit his mother's brothers. He said to them and to the rest of his mother's family,
- "Ask the people of Shechem whether they want to be ruled by all seventy of Gideon's sons or by one man. And remember, I am your own flesh and blood!"
- So Abimelech's uncles spoke to all the people of Shechem on his behalf. And after listening to their proposal, they decided in favor of Abimelech because he was their relative.
- They gave him seventy silver coins from the temple of Baal-berith, which he used to hire some soldiers who agreed to follow him.
- He took the soldiers to his father's home at Ophrah, and there, on one stone, they killed all seventy of his half brothers. But the youngest brother, Jotham, escaped and hid.