2 Samuel 8:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He also defeated the Moabites and, making them lie down on the ground, measured them off with a cord; he measured two lengths of cord for those who were to be put to death and one length for those who were to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought out the people who were in it and set them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes or sent them to the brickworks. Thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 8:6

Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.

1 Kings 4:21

Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.]]

2 Kings 1:1

After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

2 Kings 17:3

King Shalmaneser of Assyria came up against him; Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

1 Chronicles 18:2

He defeated Moab, and the Moabites became subject to David and brought tribute.

2 Chronicles 26:8

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

Psalm 108:9

Moab is my washbasin; on Edom I hurl my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

Psalm 18:45

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their strongholds.

Psalm 60:10

Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.

Psalm 60:8

Moab is my washbasin; on Edom I hurl my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

Psalm 83:6

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat from your own vine and your own fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

Numbers 24:17

I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.

1 Samuel 10:27

But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.

1 Samuel 14:47

When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he routed them.

1 Samuel 22:3

David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come to you, until I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 22:4

He left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.