1 Samuel 22:17

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Summary

And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

Footmen

1 Samuel 8:11

2 Samuel 15:1

1 Kings 1:5

Slay the priests

Would not

General references

Proverbs 25:26

Bible References

Footmen

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, on his chariot and among his horsemen, and they shall run before his chariots;

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king; and he provided himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Slay the priests

And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me as a lier-in-wait, as at this day?

Then Saul cast the spear at him to smite him; and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.

And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);

Would not

And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far be it! as Jehovah liveth, there shall not a hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he died not.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.

And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him and said to him, Man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;

General references

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.