2 Samuel 13:37

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• וְאַבְשָׁל֣וֹםand Absalom

  veavshalomH53 →110 times

• בָּרַ֔חhe fled

  barachH1272 →63 times

• וַיֵּ֛לֶךְand he went

  vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

• אֶל־to

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• תַּלְמַ֥יTalmai

  talmaiH8526 →

• בֶּן־[the] son of

  ben-H1121 →4930 times

• עַמִּיה֖וּדAmmihud

  amichurH5989 →

• מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

  melekhH4428 →2525 times

• גְּשׁ֑וּרGeshur

  geshurH1650 →9 times

• וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥לand he mourned

  vaiyitabelH56 →39 times

• עַל־on

  ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

• בְּנ֖וֹson his

  benoH1121 →4930 times

• כָּל־all

  kol-H3605 →5413 times

• הַיָּמִֽים׃the days

  haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  2 Samuel 13:34

  Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and…

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 13:37–38

    Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

• Through

  2 Samuel 3:3

  his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 27:8

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  • 1 Chronicles 3:1

    These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;

• Through

  2 Samuel 14:32

  “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me…

  it leads to

  • 1 Samuel 20:8

    Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me…

  • Exodus 14:12

    Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in…

  • Proverbs 28:13

    He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

• Through

  1 Chronicles 3:2

  the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

  it leads to

  • 2 Samuel 19:4–10

    But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

  • 2 Samuel 18:14

    But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive…