Cross references

1 Samuel 22:2

And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

1 Samuel 22:2 BSB

1 Samuel 22:2 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 11:28 (7 votes) and Psalm 72:12–14 (6 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Judges 9 to Hebrews 2.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 22:2 point to?

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

  1. Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

  2. For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper. He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed. …

  3. In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

  4. And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men strapped on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  5. And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

  6. but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.” But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us. …

  7. Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them. They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

  8. So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

  9. “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him ruler over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”

  10. Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 22:2?

The 10 strongest of 12.