2 Samuel 19:7

New American Bible - revised edition

by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. For you have announced today that officers and servants are nothing to you. Indeed I am now certain that if Absalom were alive today and all of us dead, that would be fine with you.

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.

2 Samuel 19:6

So Joab went to the king’s residence and said: “Though they saved your life and your sons’ and daughters’ lives, and the lives of your wives and your concubines, you have put all your servants to shame today

Proverbs 14:28

A multitude of subjects is the glory of the king; but if his people are few, a prince is ruined.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the sluggard goes hungry.

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.

Hosea 2:14

I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them.