Obsequiousness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Obsequiousness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground. She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your…
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She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
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2 Samuel 9:8 OT
He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
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When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!” The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. Your servant had two…