Bible Cross References
in her wisdom
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom does more for a person than ten rulers can do for a city.
Ecclesiastes 9:14-18
14
There was a little town without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls.
15
Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.
16
I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.
17
It is better to listen to the quiet words of someone wise than to the shouts of a ruler at a council of fools.
18
Wisdom does more good than weapons, but one sinner can undo a lot of good.
he blew
2 Samuel 20:1
There happened to be in Gilgal a worthless character named Sheba son of Bikri, of the tribe of Benjamin. He blew the trumpet and called out, "Down with David! We won't follow him! Men of Israel, let's go home!"
2 Samuel 2:28
Then Joab blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to stop pursuing the Israelites; and so the fighting stopped.
2 Samuel 18:16
Joab had the trumpet blown to stop the fighting, and his troops came back from pursuing the Israelites.
And Joab
2 Samuel 3:28-39
28
When David heard the news, he said, "The LORD knows that my subjects and I are completely innocent of the murder of Abner.
29
May the punishment for it fall on Joab and all his family! In every generation may there be some man in his family who has gonorrhea or a dreaded skin disease or is fit only to do a woman's work or is killed in battle or doesn't have enough to eat!"
30
So Joab and his brother Abishai took revenge on Abner for killing their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
31
Then David ordered Joab and his men to tear their clothes, wear sackcloth, and mourn for Abner. And at the funeral King David himself walked behind the coffin.
32
Abner was buried at Hebron, and the king wept aloud at the grave, and so did all the people.
33
David sang this lament for Abner: "Why did Abner have to die like a fool?
34
His hands were not tied, And his feet were not bound; He died like someone killed by criminals!" And the people wept for him again.
35
All day long the people tried to get David to eat something, but he made a solemn promise, "May God strike me dead if I eat anything before the day is over!"
36
They took note of this and were pleased. Indeed, everything the king did pleased the people.
37
All of David's people and all the people in Israel understood that the king had no part in the murder of Abner.
38
The king said to his officials, "Don't you realize that this day a great leader in Israel has died?
39
Even though I am the king chosen by God, I feel weak today. These sons of Zeruiah are too violent for me. May the LORD punish these criminals as they deserve!"
2 Samuel 11:6-21
6
David then sent a message to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.
7
When Uriah arrived, David asked him if Joab and the troops were well, and how the fighting was going.
8
Then he said to Uriah, "Go on home and rest a while." Uriah left, and David had a present sent to his home.
9
But Uriah did not go home; instead he slept at the palace gate with the king's guards.
10
When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he asked him, "You have just returned after a long absence; why didn't you go home?"
11
Uriah answered, "The men of Israel and Judah are away in battle, and the Covenant Box is with them; my commander Joab and his officers are camping out in the open. How could I go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife? By all that's sacred, I swear that I could never do such a thing!"
12
So David said, "Then stay here the rest of the day, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13
David invited him to supper and got him drunk. But again that night Uriah did not go home; instead he slept on his blanket in the palace guardroom.
14
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah.
15
He wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed."
16
So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong.
17
The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.
18
Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,
19
and he instructed the messenger, "After you have told the king all about the battle,
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he may get angry and ask you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight them? Didn't you realize that they would shoot arrows from the walls?
21
Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?' If the king asks you this, tell him, 'Your officer Uriah was also killed.' "
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough.