Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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Bible References
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2 Samuel 19:24
Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.
1 Kings 12:6
King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?”
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as he died he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”
Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant ofAbraham My friend,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked afteremptiness and became empty?
“
That they went far from Me
And walked after
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Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do hisfriends abandon him!
Hepursues them with words, but they are gone.
How much more do his
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Job 6:21 “Indeed, you have now become such,
You see a terror and are afraid.
Obadiah 1:12 “Do not gloat over your brother’s day,
The day of his misfortune.
Anddo not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Yes,do not boast
In the day of their distress.
The day of his misfortune.
And
In the day of their destruction;
Yes,
In the day of their distress.
Better
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there isa friend who sticks closer than a brother.
But there is
Luke 10:30
Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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Luke 10:32 Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.