Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
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Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
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Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
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Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.'
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to 1 Samuel 23:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 23:12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
- Deuteronomy 18:6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
- 2 Samuel 3:21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
- 1 Kings 21:11-14 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”
- 2 Kings 10:5-7 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.” Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
- Psalms 54:3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.
- Psalms 112:10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down according…
1Sa 23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king’s hand.
Ver. 20. And our part shall be to deliver him.] Here is their proditio atque premissio dedendi Davidem. A company of Judases they showed themselves; and David turneth them over to God, that he may take an order with them. {Psa 54:3; Psa 54:5}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It shall be our care and business to the…
It shall be our care and business to the utmost of our power. Or, we will undertake to deliver him, or betray him to thee.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now therefore, O king, come down,.... From Gibeah to…
Now therefore, O king, come down,.... From Gibeah to Ziph, and the wilderness of it, where David was:
according to all the desires of thy soul to come down; to seize such a prey which he was greatly desirous of, and of nothing more so than of that according to Abarbinel, the sense is, that the thing was ready in whatever way he should desire it; if he chose to come down himself, and lay hold on him, they invite him to come down; but if he did not choose to come down himself, they would seize him, and bring him to him, and deliver him up into his hand, and so he would be under no necessity of going down after him:
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and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand; this we will take upon us to do, and save the king the trouble of coming down.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:20 Both Keilah (23:12) and Ziph (23:14; Ps 54:title)…
23:20 Both Keilah (23:12) and Ziph (23:14; Ps 54:title) were located in Judah, but neither one provided sanctuary for David, a native of Judah. David’s ascension to power was not the result of his own tribe’s loyalty but because of the will of God.
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