2 Samuel 14:22

New International Version

Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant’s request.”

Cross References

Genesis 47:7

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh,

Genesis 6:8

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Samuel 14:21

The king said to Joab, “Very well, I will do it. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

2 Samuel 14:23

Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14:4

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!”

2 Samuel 19:39

So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and bid him farewell, and Barzillai returned to his home.

Nehemiah 11:2

The people commended all who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

Job 29:11

Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,

Job 31:20

and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,

Proverbs 31:28

Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

1 Samuel 20:3

But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”