Bible Cross References
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Genesis 11:7-9
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Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
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So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
2 Samuel 15:31
When David was told that Ahithophel had joined Absalom's rebellion, he prayed, "Please, LORD, turn Ahithophel's advice into nonsense!"
2 Samuel 17:1-14
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Not long after that, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and tonight I will set out after David.
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I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened, and all his men will run away. I will kill only the king
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and then bring back all his men to you, like a bride returning to her husband. You want to kill only one man; the rest of the people will be safe."
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This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.
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Absalom said, "Now call Hushai, and let us hear what he has to say."
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When Hushai arrived, Absalom said to him, "This is the advice that Ahithophel has given us; shall we follow it? If not, you tell us what to do."
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Hushai answered, "The advice Ahithophel gave you this time is no good.
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You know that your father David and his men are hard fighters and that they are as fierce as a mother bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier and does not stay with his men at night.
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Right now he is probably hiding in a cave or some other place. As soon as David attacks your men, whoever hears about it will say that your men have been defeated.
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Then even the bravest men, as fearless as lions, will be afraid because everyone in Israel knows that your father is a great soldier and that his men are hard fighters.
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My advice is that you bring all the Israelites together from one end of the country to the other, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore, and that you lead them personally in battle.
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We will find David wherever he is, and attack him before he knows what's happening. Neither he nor any of his men will survive.
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If he retreats into a city, our people will all bring ropes and just pull the city into the valley below. Not a single stone will be left there on top of the hill."
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Absalom and all the Israelites said, "Hushai's advice is better than Ahithophel's." The LORD had decided that Ahithophel's good advice would not be followed, so that disaster would come on Absalom.
John 7:45-53
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When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
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The guards answered, "Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!"
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"Did he fool you, too?" the Pharisees asked them.
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"Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?
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This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!"
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One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,
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"According to our Law we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding out what they have done."
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"Well," they answered, "are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee."
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Acts 23:6-10
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When Paul saw that some of the group were Sadducees and the others were Pharisees, he called out in the Council, "Fellow Israelites! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. I am on trial here because of the hope I have that the dead will rise to life!"
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As soon as he said this, the Pharisees and Sadducees started to quarrel, and the group was divided.
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(For the Sadducees say that people will not rise from death and that there are no angels or spirits; but the Pharisees believe in all three.)
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The shouting became louder, and some of the teachers of the Law who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly: "We cannot find a thing wrong with this man! Perhaps a spirit or an angel really did speak to him!"
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The argument became so violent that the commander was afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces. So he ordered his soldiers to go down into the group, get Paul away from them, and take him into the fort.
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Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.
Jeremiah 23:14
But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Matthew 23:37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Matthew 23:38
And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.