2 Samuel 13:23 BSB — MannaFest

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Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִי֙	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
לִשְׁנָתַ֣יִם	lish.na.Ta.yim	to two years	H8141 →
יָמִ֔ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
וַיִּהְי֤וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they belonged	H1961 →
גֹֽזְזִים֙	go.ze.Zim	shearers	H1494 →
לְאַבְשָׁל֔וֹם	le.'av.sha.Lom	to Absalom	H53 →
בְּבַ֥עַל	be.Va.'al	at Baal	H1178 →
חָצ֖וֹר	cha.Tzor	Hazor	H1178 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עִם־	'im-	[is] near	H5973 →
אֶפְרָ֑יִם	'ef.Ra.yim	Ephraim	H669 →
וַיִּקְרָ֥א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he invited	H7121 →
אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם	'av.sha.Lom	Absalom	H53 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	<to> all	H3605 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →

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
1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
leads to
- Genesis 38:13
  When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 13:2
  And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 15:55
  Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
- 1 Samuel 23:24
  So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
- Luke 16:19–25
  Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Through
1 Kings 1:25
For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest.…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 10:24
  Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
Through
2 Kings 3:4
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 8:2
  David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one…
- Genesis 26:13–14
  and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

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.

1 Samuel 25:4While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.Genesis 38:12–13After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.1 Kings 1:25For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’1 Samuel 25:2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.2 Kings 3:4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.1 Samuel 25:7Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.2 Chronicles 26:10Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.1 Kings 1:9And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.1 Kings 1:19And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.John 11:54As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

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