Friends

16 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

10 sections

False Friends: Ahithophel Was False to David

2 Samuel 15:12 While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.

1 Kings 2:5–6 Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me— what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with …

2 Samuel 11:1 In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

Psalm 35:11–16 Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about. …
Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Psalm 55:12–14 For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. …
Psalm 55:20–21 My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. …
Psalm 88:8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Psalm 88:18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

Judges 16:1–20 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her. …

Matthew 26:56 But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went in and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.

Matthew 26:48–49 Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The One I kiss is the man; arrest Him.” …

Genesis 40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

Judges 19:1–2 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. …