2 Samuel 15:7
And it happened at the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to Jehovah in Hebron.
1 Samuel 16:1-2
And Jehovah said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse of Bethlehem. For I have seen a king for Me among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:13
And Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of Jehovah came on David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
2 Samuel 13:24-27
And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, your servant has shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.
2 Samuel 13:38
And Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when you have found him, bring me word again so that I may come and worship him also.
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.