1 Samuel 26:20

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is hunted in the mountains.

Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14

As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

Matthew 26:55

In that same hour Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out as it were to a robber with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you laid not hands on me.

Matthew 26:47

As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

1 Samuel 25:29

For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God. But the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness: because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

1 Samuel 24:11

Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this, I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Lamentations 3:52

Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

1 Samuel 24:15

After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?