I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
- BSB Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
- NKJV And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
- NASB “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.
- NLT And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.
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Quick answer
Ishbosheth takes Michal from her second husband Paltiel and sends her to David. The political weakness of Saul's house is evident in his quick compliance.
Overview
Ishbosheth, too weak to resist Abner's pressure, removes Michal from Paltiel to whom Saul had unlawfully given her. The terse account underscores how powerless Saul's heir had become. The episode is morally tangled, exposing the human grief caused by Saul's earlier disregard for David's marriage.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 23:4I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking,” says Yahweh.
- Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- Eph 4:11–12He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
- Ezek 34:23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
- John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
- Isa 30:20–21Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
- Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
- 1 Cor 3:1–2Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
- Luke 12:42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
- Ezek 37:24My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- 1 Cor 2:6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
- 1 Cor 2:12–13But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
- John 10:1–5“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
- 1 Pet 5:1–4Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
- Mic 5:4–5He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
- 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
- 1 Sam 13:14But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
- Heb 5:12–14For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
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