TOPICAL BIBLE
Friendship
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2 Samuel 17:8Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.2 Samuel 17:9Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’2 Samuel 17:10Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.2 Samuel 17:11But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.2 Samuel 17:12So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.2 Samuel 17:13Moreover, if he be gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”2 Samuel 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.2 Samuel 17:15Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.2 Samuel 17:16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”2 Samuel 17:17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.2 Samuel 17:18But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.2 Samuel 17:19The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.2 Samuel 17:20Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.2 Samuel 17:21It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”2 Samuel 17:22Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.1 Kings 5:1Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.2 Kings 8:28He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.2 Kings 8:29King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.2 Kings 9:16So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.Job 2:12When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.Job 2:13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.Job 6:14“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.Job 6:15My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;Job 16:2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.Job 19:14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.Job 19:15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.Job 19:16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.Job 19:17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.Job 19:18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?Psalm 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.Psalm 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.Psalm 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.Psalm 55:12For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.Psalm 55:13But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.Psalm 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.Psalm 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.Psalm 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.Proverbs 11:13One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.Proverbs 17:9He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.Proverbs 18:24A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 22:24Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:Proverbs 22:25lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.Proverbs 22:26Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.Proverbs 22:27If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?Proverbs 25:17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.Proverbs 25:19Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.Proverbs 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.Proverbs 27:9Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.Proverbs 27:10Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.Proverbs 27:14He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.Proverbs 27:17Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.Proverbs 27:19As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.