2 Samuel 15:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

1 Kings 1:33

And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;

1 Kings 1:5

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king”; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Psalm 20:7

Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the Lord our God.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:19

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

Deuteronomy 17:16

Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;