Ecclesiastes 8:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:3

3: Don't try to avoid doing your duty, and don't take a stand with those who plot evil. For the king will punish those who disobey him.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

  1. If your boss is angry with you, don't quit! A quiet spirit can overcome even great mistakes.

1 Kings 2:21

  1. "Then let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the girl from Shunem," she replied.
  2. "How can you possibly ask me to give Abishag to Adonijah?" Solomon demanded. "You might as well be asking me to give him the kingdom! You know that he is my older brother, and that he has Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah on his side."
  3. Then King Solomon swore solemnly by the LORD: "May God strike me dead if Adonijah has not sealed his fate with this request.
  4. The LORD has confirmed me and placed me on the throne of my father, David; he has established my dynasty as he promised. So as surely as the LORD lives, Adonijah will die this very day!"

Daniel 4:35

  1. All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He has the power to do as he pleases among the angels of heaven and with those who live on earth. No one can stop him or challenge him, saying, `What do you mean by doing these things?'

Proverbs 30:31

  1. the strutting rooster, the male goat, a king as he leads his army.

Proverbs 14:29

  1. Those who control their anger have great understanding; those with a hasty temper will make mistakes.

Daniel 5:19

  1. He made him so great that people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare. He honored those he wanted to honor and disgraced those he wanted to disgrace.

Jeremiah 44:16

  1. "We will not listen to your messages from the LORD!
  2. We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and sacrifice to her just as much as we like--just as we and our ancestors did before us, and as our kings and princes have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!

Isaiah 48:4

  1. "I know how stubborn and obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron. You are as hardheaded as bronze.

Proverbs 16:14

  1. The anger of the king is a deadly threat; the wise do what they can to appease it.
  2. When the king smiles, there is life; his favor refreshes like a gentle rain.

Acts 5:8

  1. Peter asked her, "Was this the price you and your husband received for your land?Yes," she replied, "that was the price."
  2. And Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of doing a thing like this--conspiring together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out, too."

1 Kings 1:50

  1. Adonijah himself was afraid of Solomon, so he rushed to the sacred tent and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
  2. Word soon reached Solomon that Adonijah had seized the horns of the altar and that he was pleading, "Let Solomon swear today that he will not kill me!"
  3. Solomon replied, "If he proves himself to be loyal, he will not be harmed. But if he does not, he will die."
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