2 Samuel 13:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Two years went by. It was sheep-shearing time for Absalom in Baal-hazor near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

2 Samuel 13:24

Absalom went to the king and said: “Your servant has hired the shearers. Please, may the king come with all his servants to your servant.”

1 Kings 1:19

He has sacrificed bulls, fatlings, and sheep in great numbers; he has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but not your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 1:25

For today he went down and sacrificed bulls, fatlings, and sheep in great numbers; he invited all the king’s sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and even now they are eating and drinking in his company and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

1 Kings 1:9

Adonijah slaughtered sheep, oxen, and fatlings at the stone Zoheleth near En-rogel and invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah;

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha, king of Moab, who raised sheep, used to pay the king of Israel as tribute a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

Nehemiah 11:33

Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

1 Samuel 25:2

There was a man of Maon who had property in Carmel; he was very wealthy, owning three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At the time, he was present for the shearing of his flock in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was hosting a banquet in his house like that of a king, and Nabal was in a festive mood and very drunk. So she said not a word to him until daybreak the next morning.

1 Samuel 25:4

While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his flock,

1 Samuel 25:7

I have just heard that shearers are with you. Now, when your shepherds were with us, we did them no injury, neither did they miss anything while they were in Carmel.