Proverbs 27:10

The Scriptures 2009

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:24

And Mephiḇosheth son of Sha’ul came down to meet the sovereign. And he had not attended to his feet, nor trimmed his moustache, nor washed his garments, from the day the sovereign went away until the day he came back in peace.

2 Samuel 19:28

“For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”

2 Samuel 21:7

But the sovereign spared Mephiḇosheth son of Yehonathan, son of Sha’ul, because of the oath of יהוה that was between them, between Dawiḏ and Yehonathan son of Sha’ul.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Yo’ash the sovereign did not remember the loving-commitment which Yehoyaḏa his father had done to him, and killed his son. And as he died, he said, “יהוה does see, and repay!”

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 18:24

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

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of the poor shall hate him; How much more shall his friends go far from him! He pursues promises – they are gone!

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Acts 23:12

And when it became day, some of the Yehuḏim made a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Sha’ul.

Deuteronomy 22:1

“When you see your brother’s ox or his sheep straying away, you shall not hide yourself from them. Return them to your brother without fail.