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2 Samuel 19:29
2 Samuel 19:29 is verse 29 of 2 Samuel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
King James Version
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
World English Bible
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
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2 Samuel 19:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible
27 and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
28 For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
29 The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
31 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 19:16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
Proverbs 18:13He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.
Acts 18:15But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
Deuteronomy 19:17both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
Deuteronomy 19:18The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.