Cross references
2 Kings 6:22
“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
2 Kings 6:22 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 48:22 (4 votes) and Romans 12:20–21 (4 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 48 to Romans 12.
Which verses does 2 Kings 6:22 point to?
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- Genesis 48:224 votes
And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
- Romans 12:20–214 votes
On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- Deuteronomy 20:11–163 votes
If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you. But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city. …
- 2 Chronicles 28:8–153 votes
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria. But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven. …
- Hosea 2:183 votes
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
- Joshua 24:122 votes
I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
- Psalm 44:62 votes
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
- Proverbs 25:21–222 votes
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
- Hosea 1:72 votes
Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
- Matthew 5:442 votes
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Which verses point to 2 Kings 6:22?
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