Bible Cross References
A. M. 2962. B.C. 1042. A Song of degrees
Psalm 120:1
When I was in trouble, I called to the LORD, and he answered me.
Psalm 121:1
I look to the mountains; where will my help come from?
Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the LORD's house."
Psalm 123:1
LORD, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.
Psalm 124:1
What if the LORD had not been on our side? Answer, O Israel!
Psalm 125:1
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved.
Psalm 126:1
When the LORD brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!
Psalm 127:1
If the LORD does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless; if the LORD does not protect the city, it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.
Psalm 128:1
Happy are those who obey the LORD, who live by his commands.
Psalm 129:1
Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you ever since you were young.
Psalm 130:1
From the depths of my despair I call to you, LORD.
Psalm 131:1
LORD, I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me.
remember
Psalm 25:6
Remember, O LORD, your kindness and constant love which you have shown from long ago.
Psalm 25:7
Forgive the sins and errors of my youth. In your constant love and goodness, remember me, LORD!
Genesis 8:1
God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.
Exodus 2:24
who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Lamentations 3:19
The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look at us, and see our disgrace.
all his afflictions
1 Samuel 18:1-30
1
Saul and David finished their conversation. After that, Saul's son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself.
2
Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him go back home.
3
Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him.
4
He took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, together with his armor and also his sword, bow, and belt.
5
David was successful in all the missions on which Saul sent him, and so Saul made him an officer in his army. This pleased all of Saul's officers and men.
6
As David was returning after killing Goliath and as the soldiers were coming back home, women from every town in Israel came out to meet King Saul. They were singing joyful songs, dancing, and playing tambourines and lyres.
7
In their celebration the women sang, "Saul has killed thousands, but David tens of thousands."
8
Saul did not like this, and he became very angry. He said, "For David they claim tens of thousands, but only thousands for me. They will be making him king next!"
9
And so he was jealous and suspicious of David from that day on.
10
The next day an evil spirit from God suddenly took control of Saul, and he raved in his house like a madman. David was playing the harp, as he did every day, and Saul was holding a spear.
11
"I'll pin him to the wall," Saul said to himself, and he threw the spear at him twice; but David dodged each time.
12
Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with David but had abandoned him.
13
So Saul sent him away and put him in command of a thousand men. David led his men in battle
14
and was successful in all he did, because the LORD was with him.
15
Saul noticed David's success and became even more afraid of him.
16
But everyone in Israel and Judah loved David because he was such a successful leader.
17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife on condition that you serve me as a brave and loyal soldier, and fight the LORD's battles." (Saul was thinking that in this way the Philistines would kill David, and he would not have to do it himself.)
18
David answered, "Who am I and what is my family that I should become the king's son-in-law?"
19
But when the time came for Merab to be given to David, she was given instead to a man named Adriel from Meholah.
20
Saul's daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased.
21
He said to himself, "I'll give Michal to David; I will use her to trap him, and he will be killed by the Philistines." So for the second time Saul said to David, "You will be my son-in-law."
22
He ordered his officials to speak privately with David and tell him, "The king is pleased with you and all his officials like you; now is a good time for you to marry his daughter."
23
So they told this to David, and he answered, "It's a great honor to become the king's son-in-law, too great for someone poor and insignificant like me."
24
The officials told Saul what David had said,
25
and Saul ordered them to tell David: "All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies." (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.)
26
Saul's officials reported to David what Saul had said, and David was delighted with the thought of becoming the king's son-in-law. Before the day set for the wedding,
27
David and his men went and killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him, so that he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.
28
Saul realized clearly that the LORD was with David and also that his daughter Michal loved him.
29
So he became even more afraid of David and was his enemy as long as he lived.
30
The Philistine armies would come and fight, but in every battle David was more successful than any of Saul's other officers. As a result David became very famous.
2 Samuel 15:1-20
1
After this, Absalom provided a chariot and horses for himself, and an escort of fifty men.
2
He would get up early and go and stand by the road at the city gate. Whenever someone came there with a dispute that he wanted the king to settle, Absalom would call him over and ask him where he was from. And after the man had told him what tribe he was from,
3
Absalom would say, "Look, the law is on your side, but there is no representative of the king to hear your case."
4
And he would add, "How I wish I were a judge! Then anyone who had a dispute or a claim could come to me, and I would give him justice."
5
When the man would approach Absalom to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out, take hold of him, and kiss him.
6
Absalom did this with every Israelite who came to the king for judgment, and so he won their loyalty.
7
After four years Absalom said to King David, "Sir, let me go to Hebron and keep a promise I made to the LORD.
8
While I was living in Geshur in Syria, I promised the LORD that if he would take me back to Jerusalem, I would worship him in Hebron."
9
"Go in peace," the king said. So Absalom went to Hebron.
10
But he sent messengers to all the tribes of Israel to say, "When you hear the sound of trumpets, shout, 'Absalom has become king at Hebron!' "
11
There were two hundred men who at Absalom's invitation had gone from Jerusalem with him; they knew nothing of the plot and went in all good faith.
12
And while he was offering sacrifices, Absalom also sent to the town of Gilo for Ahithophel, who was one of King David's advisers. The plot against the king gained strength, and Absalom's followers grew in number.
13
A messenger reported to David, "The Israelites are pledging their loyalty to Absalom."
14
So David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, "We must get away at once if we want to escape from Absalom! Hurry! Or else he will soon be here and defeat us and kill everyone in the city!"
15
"Yes, Your Majesty," they answered. "We are ready to do whatever you say."
16
So the king left, accompanied by all his family and officials, except for ten concubines, whom he left behind to take care of the palace.
17
As the king and all his men were leaving the city, they stopped at the last house.
18
All his officials stood next to him as the royal bodyguards passed by in front of him. The six hundred soldiers who had followed him from Gath also passed by,
19
and the king said to Ittai, their leader, "Why are you going with us? Go back and stay with the new king. You are a foreigner, a refugee away from your own country.
20
You have lived here only a short time, so why should I make you wander around with me? I don't even know where I'm going. Go back and take all your people with you---and may the LORD be kind and faithful to you."