Bible Cross References
Because
Ezekiel 25:6
"This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: You clapped your hands and jumped for joy. You despised the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 25:12
The Sovereign LORD said, "The people of Edom took cruel revenge on Judah, and that revenge has brought lasting guilt on Edom.
Isaiah 14:29-31
29
People of Philistia, the rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.
30
The LORD will be a shepherd to the poor of his people and will let them live in safety. But he will send a terrible famine on you Philistines, and it will not leave any of you alive.
31
Howl and cry for help, all you Philistine cities! Be terrified, all of you! A cloud of dust is coming from the north---it is an army with no cowards in its ranks.
Jeremiah 25:20
Jeremiah 47:1-7
1
Before the king of Egypt attacked Gaza, the LORD spoke to me about Philistia.
2
He said: "Look! Waters are rising in the north and will rush like a river in flood. They will cover the land and everything on it, cities and the people who live there. People will call out for help; everyone on earth will cry bitterly.
3
They will hear the hoofbeats of horses, the clatter of chariots, the rumble of wheels. Parents will not turn back for their children; their hands will hang limp at their sides.
4
The time has come to destroy Philistia, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon all the help that remains. I, the LORD, will destroy the Philistines, all who came from the shores of Crete.
5
Great sorrow has come to the people of Gaza, and Ashkelon's people are silent. How long will the rest of Philistia mourn?
6
You cry out, 'Sword of the LORD! How long will you go on slashing? Go back to your scabbard, stay there and rest!'
7
But how can it rest, when I have given it work to do? I have commanded it to attack Ashkelon and the people who live on the coast."
Joel 3:4-21
4
"What are you trying to do to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all of Philistia? Are you trying to pay me back for something? If you are, I will quickly pay you back!
5
You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples.
6
You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.
7
Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them.
8
I will let your sons and daughters be sold to the people of Judah; they will sell them to the far-off Sabeans. I, the LORD, have spoken.
9
"Make this announcement among the nations: 'Prepare for war; call your warriors; gather all your soldiers and march!
10
Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
11
Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather in the valley.' " Send down, O LORD, your army to attack them!
12
"The nations must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. There I, the LORD, will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13
They are very wicked; cut them down like grain at harvest time; crush them as grapes are crushed in a full wine press until the wine runs over."
14
Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the LORD will soon come.
15
The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.
16
The LORD roars from Mount Zion; his voice thunders from Jerusalem; earth and sky tremble. But he will defend his people.
17
"Then, Israel, you will know that I am the LORD your God. I live on Zion, my sacred hill. Jerusalem will be a sacred city; foreigners will never conquer it again.
18
At that time the mountains will be covered with vineyards, and cattle will be found on every hill; there will be plenty of water for all of Judah. A stream will flow from the Temple of the LORD, and it will water Acacia Valley.
19
"Egypt will become a desert, and Edom a ruined waste, because they attacked the land of Judah and killed its innocent people.
20
I will avenge those who were killed; I will not spare the guilty. But Judah and Jerusalem will be inhabited forever, and I, the LORD, will live on Mount Zion."
Zephaniah 2:4-7
4
No one will be left in the city of Gaza. Ashkelon will be deserted. The people of Ashdod will be driven out in half a day, and the people of Ekron will be driven from their city.
5
You Philistines are doomed, you people who live along the coast. The LORD has passed sentence on you. He will destroy you, and not one of you will be left.
6
Your land by the sea will become open fields with shepherd's huts and sheep pens.
7
The people of Judah who survive will occupy your land. They will pasture their flocks there and sleep in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will be with them and make them prosper again.
Amos 1:6-8
6
The LORD says, "The people of Gaza have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They carried off a whole nation and sold them as slaves to the people of Edom.
7
So I will send fire upon the city walls of Gaza and burn down its fortresses.
8
I will remove the rulers of the cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon. I will punish the city of Ekron, and all the Philistines who are left will die."
Zechariah 9:5-8
5
The city of Ashkelon will see this and be afraid. The city of Gaza will see it and suffer great pain. So will Ekron, and her hopes will be shattered. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will be left deserted.
6
People of mixed race will live in Ashdod. The LORD says, "I will humble all these proud Philistines.
7
They will no longer eat meat with blood in it, or other forbidden food. All the survivors will become part of my people and be like a clan in the tribe of Judah. Ekron will become part of my people, as the Jebusites did.
8
I will guard my land and keep armies from passing through it. I will not allow tyrants to oppress my people any more. I have seen how my people have suffered."
dealt
2 Chronicles 28:18
At this same time the Philistines were raiding the towns in the western foothills and in southern Judah. They captured the cities of Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, and the cities of Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages, and settled there permanently.
Psalm 83:7
the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, and of Philistia and Tyre.
Isaiah 9:12
Syria on the east and Philistia on the west have opened their mouths to devour Israel. Yet even so the LORD's anger is not ended; his hand is still stretched out to punish.
to destroy
Judges 14:1-16
1
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he noticed a certain young Philistine woman.
2
He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."
3
But his father and mother asked him, "Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?" But Samson told his father, "She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her."
4
His parents did not know that it was the LORD who was leading Samson to do this, for the LORD was looking for a chance to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel.
5
So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. As they were going through the vineyards there, he heard a young lion roaring.
6
Suddenly the power of the LORD made Samson strong, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.
7
Then he went and talked to the young woman, and he liked her.
8
A few days later Samson went back to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed, and he was surprised to find a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.
9
He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.
10
His father went to the woman's house, and Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.
11
When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him.
12
Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. I'll bet each one of you a piece of fine linen and a change of fine clothes that you can't tell me its meaning before the seven days of the wedding feast are over." "Tell us your riddle," they said. "Let's hear it."
14
He said, "Out of the eater came something to eat; Out of the strong came something sweet." Three days later they had still not figured out what the riddle meant.
15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it. You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?"
16
So Samson's wife went to him in tears and said, "You don't love me! You just hate me! You told my friends a riddle and didn't tell me what it means!" He said, "Look, I haven't even told my father and mother. Why should I tell you?"
1 Samuel 4:1-6
1
At that time the Philistines gathered to go to war against Israel, so the Israelites set out to fight them. The Israelites set up their camp at Ebenezer and the Philistines at Aphek.
2
The Philistines attacked, and after fierce fighting they defeated the Israelites and killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.
3
When the survivors came back to camp, the leaders of Israel said, "Why did the LORD let the Philistines defeat us today? Let's go and bring the LORD's Covenant Box from Shiloh, so that he will go with us and save us from our enemies."
4
So they sent messengers to Shiloh and got the Covenant Box of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned above the winged creatures. And Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, came along with the Covenant Box.
5
When the Covenant Box arrived, the Israelites gave such a loud shout of joy that the earth shook.
6
The Philistines heard the shouting and said, "Listen to all that shouting in the Hebrew camp! What does it mean?" When they found out that the LORD's Covenant Box had arrived in the Hebrew camp,
1 Samuel 13:1-14
2
Saul picked three thousand men, keeping two thousand of them with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel and sending one thousand with his son Jonathan to Gibeah, in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. The rest of the men Saul sent home.
3
Jonathan killed the Philistine commander in Geba, and all the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul sent messengers to call the Hebrews to war by blowing a trumpet throughout the whole country.
4
All the Israelites were told that Saul had killed the Philistine commander and that the Philistines hated them. So the people answered the call to join Saul at Gilgal.
5
The Philistines assembled to fight the Israelites; they had thirty thousand war chariots, six thousand cavalry troops, and as many soldiers as there are grains of sand on the seashore. They went to Michmash, east of Bethaven, and camped there.
6
Then they launched a strong attack against the Israelites, putting them in a desperate situation. Some of the Israelites hid in caves and holes or among the rocks or in pits and wells;
7
others crossed the Jordan River into the territories of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and the people with him were trembling with fear.
8
He waited seven days for Samuel, as Samuel had instructed him to do, but Samuel still had not come to Gilgal. The people began to desert Saul,
9
so he said to them, "Bring me the burnt sacrifices and the fellowship sacrifices." He offered a burnt sacrifice,
10
and just as he was finishing, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to meet him and welcome him,
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but Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul answered, "The people were deserting me, and you had not come when you said you would; besides that, the Philistines are gathering at Michmash.
12
So I thought, 'The Philistines are going to attack me here in Gilgal, and I have not tried to win the LORD's favor.' So I felt I had to offer a sacrifice."
13
"That was a foolish thing to do," Samuel answered. "You have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you. If you had obeyed, he would have let you and your descendants rule over Israel forever.
14
But now your rule will not continue. Because you have disobeyed him, the LORD will find the kind of man he wants and make him ruler of his people."
1 Samuel 17:1-58
1
The Philistines gathered for battle in Socoh, a town in Judah; they camped at a place called Ephes Dammim, between Socoh and Azekah.
2
Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in Elah Valley, where they got ready to fight the Philistines.
3
The Philistines lined up on one hill and the Israelites on another, with a valley between them.
4
A man named Goliath, from the city of Gath, came out from the Philistine camp to challenge the Israelites. He was over nine feet tall
5
and wore bronze armor that weighed about 125 pounds and a bronze helmet.
6
His legs were also protected by bronze armor, and he carried a bronze javelin slung over his shoulder.
7
His spear was as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom, and its iron head weighed about fifteen pounds. A soldier walked in front of him carrying his shield.
8
Goliath stood and shouted at the Israelites, "What are you doing there, lined up for battle? I am a Philistine, you slaves of Saul! Choose one of your men to fight me.
9
If he wins and kills me, we will be your slaves; but if I win and kill him, you will be our slaves.
10
Here and now I challenge the Israelite army. I dare you to pick someone to fight me!"
11
When Saul and his men heard this, they were terrified.
12
David was the son of Jesse, who was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and at the time Saul was king, he was already a very old man.
13
His three oldest sons had gone with Saul to war. The oldest was Eliab, the next was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
14
David was the youngest son, and while the three oldest brothers stayed with Saul,
15
David would go back to Bethlehem from time to time, to take care of his father's sheep.
16
Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days.
17
One day Jesse said to David, "Take a half-bushel of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and hurry with them to your brothers in the camp.
18
And take these ten cheeses to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting along and bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well.
19
King Saul, your brothers, and all the other Israelites are in Elah Valley fighting the Philistines."
20
David got up early the next morning, left someone else in charge of the sheep, took the food, and went as Jesse had told him to. He arrived at the camp just as the Israelites were going out to their battle line, shouting the war cry.
21
The Philistine and the Israelite armies took positions for battle, facing each other.
22
David left the food with the officer in charge of the supplies, ran to the battle line, went to his brothers, and asked how they were getting along.
23
As he was talking with them, Goliath came forward and challenged the Israelites as he had done before. And David heard him.
24
When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.
25
"Look at him!" they said to each other. "Listen to his challenge! King Saul has promised to give a big reward to the man who kills him; the king will also give him his daughter to marry and will not require his father's family to pay taxes."
26
David asked the men who were near him, "What will the man get who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from this disgrace? After all, who is this heathen Philistine to defy the army of the living God?"
27
They told him what would be done for the man who killed Goliath.
28
Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard David talking to the men. He became angry with David and said, "What are you doing here? Who is taking care of those sheep of yours out there in the wilderness? You smart aleck, you! You just came to watch the fighting!"
29
"Now what have I done?" David asked. "Can't I even ask a question?"
30
He turned to another man and asked him the same question, and every time he asked, he got the same answer.
31
Some men heard what David had said, and they told Saul, who sent for him.
32
David said to Saul, "Your Majesty, no one should be afraid of this Philistine! I will go and fight him."
33
"No," answered Saul. "How could you fight him? You're just a boy, and he has been a soldier all his life!"
34
"Your Majesty," David said, "I take care of my father's sheep. Any time a lion or a bear carries off a lamb,
35
I go after it, attack it, and rescue the lamb. And if the lion or bear turns on me, I grab it by the throat and beat it to death.
36
I have killed lions and bears, and I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, who has defied the army of the living God.
37
The LORD has saved me from lions and bears; he will save me from this Philistine." "All right," Saul answered. "Go, and the LORD be with you."
38
He gave his own armor to David for him to wear: a bronze helmet, which he put on David's head, and a coat of armor.
39
David strapped Saul's sword over the armor and tried to walk, but he couldn't, because he wasn't used to wearing them. "I can't fight with all this," he said to Saul. "I'm not used to it." So he took it all off.
40
He took his shepherd's stick and then picked up five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his bag. With his sling ready, he went out to meet Goliath.
41
The Philistine started walking toward David, with his shield bearer walking in front of him. He kept coming closer,
42
and when he got a good look at David, he was filled with scorn for him because he was just a nice, good-looking boy.
43
He said to David, "What's that stick for? Do you think I'm a dog?" And he called down curses from his god on David.
44
"Come on," he challenged David, "and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat."
45
David answered, "You are coming against me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the Israelite armies, which you have defied.
46
This very day the LORD will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I will give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God,
47
and everyone here will see that the LORD does not need swords or spears to save his people. He is victorious in battle, and he will put all of you in our power."
48
Goliath started walking toward David again, and David ran quickly toward the Philistine battle line to fight him.
49
He reached into his bag and took out a stone, which he slung at Goliath. It hit him on the forehead and broke his skull, and Goliath fell face downward on the ground.
50
And so, without a sword, David defeated and killed Goliath with a sling and a stone!
51
He ran to him, stood over him, took Goliath's sword out of its sheath, and cut off his head and killed him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran away.
52
The men of Israel and Judah shouted and ran after them, pursuing them all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. The Philistines fell wounded all along the road that leads to Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron.
53
When the Israelites came back from pursuing the Philistines, they looted their camp.
54
David got Goliath's head and took it to Jerusalem, but he kept Goliath's weapons in his own tent.
55
When Saul saw David going out to fight Goliath, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, "Abner, whose son is he?" "I have no idea, Your Majesty," Abner answered.
56
"Then go and find out," Saul ordered.
57
So when David returned to camp after killing Goliath, Abner took him to Saul. David was still carrying Goliath's head.
58
Saul asked him, "Young man, whose son are you?" "I am the son of your servant Jesse from Bethlehem," David answered.
1 Samuel 21:1-15
1
David went to the priest Ahimelech in Nob. Ahimelech came out trembling to meet him and asked, "Why did you come here all by yourself ?"
2
"I am here on the king's business," David answered. "He told me not to let anyone know what he sent me to do. As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
3
Now, then, what supplies do you have? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have."
4
The priest said, "I don't have any ordinary bread, only sacred bread; you can have it if your men haven't had sexual relations recently."
5
"Of course they haven't," answered David. "My men always keep themselves ritually pure even when we go out on an ordinary mission; how much more this time when we are on a special mission!"
6
So the priest gave David the sacred bread, because the only bread he had was the loaves offered to God, which had been removed from the sacred table and replaced by fresh bread.
7
(Saul's chief herdsman, Doeg, who was from Edom, happened to be there that day, because he had to fulfill a religious obligation.)
8
David said to Ahimelech, "Do you have a spear or a sword you can give me? The king's orders made me leave in such a hurry that I didn't have time to get my sword or any other weapon."
9
Ahimelech answered, "I have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in Elah Valley; it is behind the ephod, wrapped in a cloth. If you want it, take it---it's the only weapon here." "Give it to me," David said. "There is not a better sword anywhere!"
10
So David left, fleeing from Saul, and went to King Achish of Gath.
11
The king's officials said to Achish, "Isn't this David, the king of his country? This is the man about whom the women sang, as they danced, 'Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands.' "
12
Their words made a deep impression on David, and he became very much afraid of King Achish.
13
So whenever David was around them, he pretended to be insane and acted like a madman when they tried to restrain him; he would scribble on the city gates and let spit drool down his beard.
14
So Achish said to his officials, "Look! The man is crazy! Why did you bring him to me?
15
Don't I have enough madmen already? Why bring another one to bother me with his crazy actions right here in my own house?"
2 Samuel 8:1-18
1
Some time later King David attacked the Philistines again, defeated them, and ended their control over the land.
2
Then he defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
3
Then he defeated the king of the Syrian state of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob, as Hadadezer was on his way to restore his control over the territory by the upper Euphrates River.
4
David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled all the rest.
5
When the Syrians of Damascus sent an army to help King Hadadezer, David attacked it and killed twenty-two thousand men.
6
Then he set up military camps in their territory, and they became his subjects and paid taxes to him. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
7
David captured the gold shields carried by Hadadezer's officials and took them to Jerusalem.
8
He also took a great quantity of bronze from Betah and Berothai, cities ruled by Hadadezer.
9
King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated all of Hadadezer's army.
10
So he sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for his victory over Hadadezer, against whom Toi had fought many times. Joram took David presents made of gold, silver, and bronze.
11
King David dedicated them for use in worship, along with the silver and gold he took from the nations he had conquered---
12
Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek---as well as part of the loot he had taken from Hadadezer.
13
David became even more famous when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Edomites in Salt Valley.
14
He set up military camps throughout Edom, and the people there became his subjects. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
15
David ruled over all of Israel and made sure that his people were always treated fairly and justly.
16
Joab, whose mother was Zeruiah, was the commander of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records;
17
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the court secretary;
18
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of David's bodyguards; and David's sons were priests.
1 Chronicles 7:21
Zabad, Shuthelah. Ephraim had two other sons besides Shuthelah: Ezer and Elead, who were killed when they tried to steal the livestock belonging to the native inhabitants of Gath.