Proverbs 18:24

The Scriptures 1998

A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

“I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

And Ittai answered the sovereign and said, “As יהוה  lives, and as my master the sovereign lives, in whatever place my master the sovereign is, whether in death or life, let your servant also be there.”

2 Samuel 16:17

And Aḇ

2 Samuel 21:7

But the sovereign spared Mephiḇ

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume gladden the heart, So one’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha’ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 18:3

And Yehonathan and Dawiḏ