SPIES

Passages on this topic · 24

• Genesis 42:9

  Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

• Numbers 21:32

  Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

• Joshua 2:1

  Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

• 1 Samuel 26:4

  David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But 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 Samuel 17:1

  Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

• 2 Samuel 17:2

  I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

• 2 Samuel 17:3

  and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

• 2 Samuel 17:4

  The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 17:5

  Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.”

• 2 Samuel 17:6

  When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”

• 2 Samuel 17:7

  Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

• 2 Samuel 17:12

  So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

• 2 Samuel 17:13

  Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

• 2 Samuel 17:14

  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:15

  Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

• 2 Samuel 17:16

  Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”

• 2 Samuel 17:17

  Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

• Luke 20:20

  They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

• Galatians 2:4

  This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;