Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
1 Kings 12:6
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?"
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the LORD look at it, and repay it."
Isaiah 41:8
"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the LORD, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Job 6:21
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
Obadiah 1:12
But do not look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Do not speak proudly in the day of distress.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Luke 10:30
Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.