2 Samuel 2:1

Modern English Version

After this, David consulted the Lord, asking, “Shall I go to one of the cities of Judah?” The Lord responded to him, “Go up.” David asked, “Where should I go?” And He said, “Hebron.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there.

Genesis 32:2

When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 15:7

After forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please allow me to go fulfill my vow that I made to the Lord in Hebron.

2 Samuel 2:11

The length of time during which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 5:19

So David asked the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?” The Lord said to David, “Go up, because I will certainly give them into your hand.”

2 Samuel 5:23

When David inquired of the Lord, He said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

1 Kings 2:11

David reigned over Israel forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 29:7

Also they donated to the service of the house of God five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon in the northwest, and central Hebron, all of which were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

Psalm 143:8

Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for in You do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.

Psalm 27:4

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.

Ezekiel 36:37

Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

Numbers 13:22

They went up by the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were (now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt).

Numbers 27:21

He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him about the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, even all the assembly.”

Joshua 15:13

According to the word of the Lord to Joshua, Caleb son of Jephunneh was given an allotment among the tribe of Judah: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron). Arba was the father of Anak.

Judges 1:1

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, “Who should go up against the Canaanites first, in order to wage war against them?”

1 Samuel 10:22

Therefore they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man come here yet?” And the Lord answered, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the equipment.”

1 Samuel 23:2

Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines, and rescue Keilah.”

1 Samuel 23:4

Then David again inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah because I am giving the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 30:31

and in Hebron; and to those who were in all the other places where David and his men had roamed.