Psalms 55:20

The betrayer turned on his friends and broke his covenant. It exposes the treachery of the false companion.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
• Acts 12:1Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
• Ps 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
• Ps 109:5They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
• Ps 120:6–7My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
• Ps 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
• Eccl 8:2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
• Ps 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
• 1 Sam 22:17The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
• Ezek 17:16–19“‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.
• 1 Sam 24:10Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
• 2 Sam 14:32–33Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
• 2 Sam 15:10–12But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”
• 2 Sam 2:4The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
• 2 Sam 5:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.
• 2 Sam 18:12The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

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