2 Samuel 15:1

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

AFTER THIS, Absalom got a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

1 Kings 1:33

The king told them, Take the servants of your lord and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule and bring him down to Gihon [in the Kidron Valley].

1 Kings 1:5

Then Adonijah son of [David's wife] Haggith exalted himself, saying, I [the eldest living son] will be king. And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, with fifty men to run before him.

Psalm 20:7

Some trust in and boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God.

Proverbs 11:2

When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also, but with the humble (those who are lowly, who have been pruned or chiseled by trial, and renounce self) are skillful and godly Wisdom and soundness.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:19

He who loves strife and is quarrelsome loves transgression and involves himself in guilt; he who raises high his gateway and is boastful and arrogant invites destruction.

Deuteronomy 17:16

But he shall not multiply horses to himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord said to you, You shall never return that way.

1 Samuel 8:11

And he said, These will be the ways of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.