Psalms 3:1

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Psalms 3:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!

2 Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

3 But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 15:1

Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

2 Samuel 15:3

Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”

2 Samuel 15:4

And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”

2 Samuel 15:5

Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.

2 Samuel 15:6

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:7

After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

2 Samuel 15:8

For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

2 Samuel 15:9

“Go in peace,” said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:10

Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

2 Samuel 15:11

Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.

2 Samuel 15:12

While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.

2 Samuel 15:13

Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”

2 Samuel 15:14

And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

2 Samuel 15:15

The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”

2 Samuel 15:16

Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

2 Samuel 15:17

So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,

2 Samuel 15:18

and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

2 Samuel 16:15

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

2 Samuel 17:11

Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.

2 Samuel 17:12

Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.

2 Samuel 17:13

If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found.”

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Psalms 17:7

Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.

Matthew 10:21

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.