1 Samuel 20:24 BSB — MannaFest

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10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּסָּתֵ֥ר	vai.yi.sa.Ter	and he hid himself	H5641 →
דָּוִ֖ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
בַּשָּׂדֶ֑ה	ba.sa.Deh	in the field	H7704 →
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
הַחֹ֔דֶשׁ	ha.Cho.desh	the new moon	H2320 →
וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב	vai.Ye.shev	and he sat down	H3427 →
הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
אֶל	'al-	to	H413 →
הַלֶּ֖חֶם	ha.Le.chem	the food	H3899 →
לֶאֱכֽוֹל׃	le.'e.Khol	to eat	H398 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
leads to
- Proverbs 21:19
  Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 15:17
  Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Psalms 37:16
  Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- Proverbs 21:9
  Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Through
Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
leads to
- Proverbs 17:1
  Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Through
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
leads to
- Proverbs 9:17
  “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- Micah 6:12
  For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Proverbs 20:17
  Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.Isaiah 1:11–15“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.Psalms 50:16–21To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?Proverbs 17:1Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.Zechariah 7:6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?Proverbs 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

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