2 Samuel 15:3

WEB

³Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

KJV

³And Absalom^[+] said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

BSB

³Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”

FBV

³Absalom would tell them, “Look, you're in the right and you've got a good case. It's such a shame there's no one from the king to hear you.”

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Exodus 20:12

¹²“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

2 Samuel 8:15

¹⁵David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

Proverbs 30:17

¹⁷“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Proverbs 12:2

²A good man shall obtain favor from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Ezekiel 22:7

⁷In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. ^[+] Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Proverbs 30:11

¹¹There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

Psalms 12:2

²Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

2 Peter 2:10

¹⁰but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,

¹³Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? ¹⁴Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

Daniel 11:21

²¹“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.