Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 22:24
Don't make friends with people who have hot, violent tempers.
Proverbs 22:25
You might learn their habits and not be able to change.
Proverbs 25:28
If you cannot control your anger, you are as helpless as a city without walls, open to attack.
Proverbs 29:22
People with quick tempers cause a lot of quarreling and trouble.
1 Samuel 20:30
Saul became furious with Jonathan and said to him, "How rebellious and faithless your mother was! Now I know you are taking sides with David and are disgracing yourself and that mother of yours!
1 Samuel 20:31
Don't you realize that as long as David is alive, you will never be king of this country? Now go and bring him here---he must die!"
1 Samuel 22:7-23
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and he said to his officers, "Listen, men of Benjamin! Do you think that David will give fields and vineyards to all of you, and make you officers in his army?
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Is that why you are plotting against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made an alliance with David. No one is concerned about me or tells me that David, one of my own men, is right now looking for a chance to kill me, and that my son has encouraged him!"
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Doeg was standing there with Saul's officers, and he said, "I saw David when he went to Ahimelech son of Ahitub in Nob.
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Ahimelech asked the LORD what David should do, and then he gave David some food and the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
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So King Saul sent for the priest Ahimelech and all his relatives, who were also priests in Nob, and they came to him.
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Saul said to Ahimelech, "Listen, Ahimelech!" "At your service, sir," he answered.
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Saul asked him, "Why are you and David plotting against me? Why did you give him some food and a sword, and consult God for him? Now he has turned against me and is waiting for a chance to kill me!"
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Ahimelech answered, "David is the most faithful officer you have! He is your own son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and highly respected by everyone in the royal court.
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Yes, I consulted God for him, and it wasn't the first time. As for plotting against you, Your Majesty must not accuse me or anyone else in my family. I don't know anything about this matter!"
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The king said, "Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die."
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Then he said to the guards standing near him, "Kill the LORD's priests! They conspired with David and did not tell me that he had run away, even though they knew it all along." But the guards refused to lift a hand to kill the LORD's priests.
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So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.
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Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep---they were all killed.
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But Abiathar, one of Ahimelech's sons, escaped, and went and joined David.
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He told him how Saul had slaughtered the priests of the LORD.
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David said to him, "When I saw Doeg there that day, I knew that he would be sure to tell Saul. So I am responsible for the death of all your relatives.
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Stay with me and don't be afraid. Saul wants to kill both you and me, but you will be safe with me."
1 Samuel 24:17-22
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Then he said to David, "You are right, and I am wrong. You have been so good to me, while I have done such wrong to you!
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Today you have shown how good you are to me, because you did not kill me, even though the LORD put me in your power.
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How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed? The LORD bless you for what you have done to me today!
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Now I am sure that you will be king of Israel and that the kingdom will continue under your rule.
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But promise me in the LORD's name that you will spare my descendants, so that my name and my family's name will not be completely forgotten."
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David promised that he would. Then Saul went back home, and David and his men went back to their hiding place.
1 Samuel 26:21-25
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Saul answered, "I have done wrong. Come back, David, my son! I will never harm you again, because you have spared my life tonight. I have been a fool! I have done a terrible thing!"
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David replied, "Here is your spear, Your Majesty. Let one of your men come over and get it.
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The LORD rewards those who are faithful and righteous. Today he put you in my power, but I did not harm you, whom the LORD made king.
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Just as I have spared your life today, may the LORD do the same to me and free me from all troubles!"
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Saul said to David, "God bless you, my son! You will succeed in everything you do!" So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
2 Samuel 16:5
When King David arrived at Bahurim, one of Saul's relatives, Shimei son of Gera, came out to meet him, cursing him as he came.
2 Samuel 16:6
Shimei started throwing stones at David and his officials, even though David was surrounded by his men and his bodyguards.