2 Samuel 19:7

Tree of Life Version

by loving those who hate you, and hating those who love you! For you have shown today that officers and officials are nothing to you. For today I realize that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, then it would have pleased you well.

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

But his soul clung to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, and he loved the young woman and spoke reassuringly to the young woman.

2 Samuel 19:6

Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your servants—who this day have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines—

Proverbs 14:28

A large population is a king’s glory, but lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will starve.

Isaiah 40:1

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

Hosea 2:14

I will also devastate her vines and her fig trees, of which she said: ‘These are my payment that my lovers have given to me.’ But I will turn them into a thicket and beasts of the field will devour them.