2Sa 15:6
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
King James Version
✦ Tap any word with a dotted underline to see its original language study
Connections · 12
Parallel · 12
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
An hypocrite with {his} mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give {them} unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity. {altogether: or, alike}
And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
And all the people took notice {of it}, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. {pleased them: Heb. was good in their eyes}
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand {men}.
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
{As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and {that} all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.