Cross references

1 Samuel 16:4

So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 16:4 BSB

1 Samuel 16:4 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 2:13 (5 votes) and 1 Samuel 21:1 (4 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 48 to 1 Thessalonians 5.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 16:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Now Adonijah son of Haggith went to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she asked, “Do you come in peace?” “Yes, in peace,” he replied.

  2. Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

  3. When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

  4. And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.” Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, the chief of the Thirty, and he said: “We are yours, O David! We are with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God helps you.” So David received them and made them leaders of his troops.

  5. Luke 5:84 votes

    When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

  6. “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

  7. Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

  8. That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

  9. Hosea 6:52 votes

    Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

  10. They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

  11. Luke 2:42 votes
  12. Luke 8:372 votes

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 16:4?

The 10 strongest of 18.