Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
Bible References
Let me
Proverbs 11:14
Where no good counsel is, there the people decay; but whereas are many that can give counsel, there is wealth.
Proverbs 20:18
Through counsel the things that men devise go forward; and with discretion ought wars to be taken in hand.
Proverbs 27:9
The heart is glad of a sweet ointment and savour, but a stomach that can give good counsel, rejoiceth a man's neighbour.
Jeremiah 38:15
Then Jeremiah answered Zedekiah, "If I be plain unto thee, thou wilt cause me suffer death: If I give thee counsel, thou wilt not follow me."
Save
1 Kings 1:21
For else when my lord the king is laid to rest with his fathers, I and my son Solomon shall be sinners."
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."
Acts 27:31
Paul said unto the under-captain and the soldiers, "Except these abide in the ship ye cannot be safe."
The life
Judges 9:5
And they went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew all his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, even seventy persons upon one stone. Notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.
2 Kings 11:1
And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and slew all the seed of the king.
2 Chronicles 21:4
And when Jehoram was up upon the kingdom of his father and settled, he slew all his other brethren with the sword, and divers of the lords of Israel thereto.
2 Chronicles 22:10
For Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw her son was dead, arose and destroyed all the seed of the kingdom of the house of Judah.
Matthew 21:38
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir: come on, let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance, to ourselves.'