2 Samuel 11:16 BSB — MannaFest

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16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֕י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בִּשְׁמ֥וֹר	bish.Mor	when watched	H8104 →
יוֹאָ֖ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
אֶל־	'el-	against	H413 →
הָעִ֑יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
וַיִּתֵּן֙	vai.yi.Ten	and he put	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
א֣וּרִיָּ֔ה	'u.ri.Yah	Uriah	H223 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמָּקוֹם֙	ha.ma.kOm	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	where	H834 →
יָדַ֔ע	ya.Da'	he knew	H3045 →
כִּ֥י	ki	that	H3588 →
אַנְשֵׁי־	'an.shei-	men of	H582 →
חַ֖יִל	Cha.yil	strength	H2428 →
שָֽׁם׃	Sham	[were] there	H8033 →

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.

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Acts 5:29
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
leads to
- Acts 4:19
  But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
- 1 Samuel 15:24
  Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
- Mark 7:7–9
  They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
- Genesis 3:17
  And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because…
- Revelation 14:8–12
  Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
Through
1 Kings 2:5
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them…
leads to
- 2 Samuel 3:27
  When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the…
- 2 Samuel 20:10
  Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him…
Through
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the…
leads to
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10
  “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

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.

2 Kings 10:6Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.2 Samuel 3:27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.Acts 5:29But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.2 Samuel 20:9–10“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.1 Kings 2:5Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.Proverbs 29:12If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.2 Samuel 11:21Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”1 Kings 21:12–14They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.1 Samuel 22:17–19Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.Hosea 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.1 Kings 2:31–34And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

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