2 Samuel 1:1-24:25
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After the death of Saul, when David had returned a from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.
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And on the third day, behold, b a man came from Saul's camp, c with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, d he fell to the ground and paid homage.
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David said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."
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And David said to him, e "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."
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Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"
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And the young man who told him said, f "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
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And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, 'Here I am.'
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And he said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'
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And he said to me g 'Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.'
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So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. h And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."
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Then David took hold of his clothes and i tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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And they mourned and wept j and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite."
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David said to him, "How is it you were not k afraid to put out your hand to destroy l the Lord's anointed?"
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Then m David called one of the young men and said, "Go, execute him." And he struck him down so that he died.
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And David said to him, n "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed o the Lord's anointed.'"
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And David p lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,
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and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in q the Book of Jashar. He said:
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"Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places!
r How the mighty have fallen!
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s Tell it not in Gath,
t publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
u lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of v the uncircumcised exult.
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w "You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fields of offerings!
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, not x anointed with oil.
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"From the blood of the slain,
from the fat of the mighty,
y the bow of Jonathan turned not back,
and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
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"Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!
In life and in death they were not divided;
they were z swifter than eagles;
they were a stronger than lions.
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"You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,
b who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
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c "How the mighty have fallen
in the midst of the battle!
"Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
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I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant have you been to me;
d your love to me was extraordinary,
surpassing the love of women.
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c "How the mighty have fallen,
and the weapons of war perished!"
2 Samuel 2
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After this David e inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To f Hebron."
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So David went up there, and g his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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And David brought up h his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.
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And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David i king over the house of Judah. When they told David, j "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
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David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, k "May you be blessed by the Lord, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.
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Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.
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Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord i is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
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But l Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to m Mahanaim,
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and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.
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Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
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n And the time that David was king in Hebron over i the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
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Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at o the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
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And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and compete before us." And Joab said, "Let them arise."
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Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
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And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.
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And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.
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And the p three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was q as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
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And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
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Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" And he answered, "It is I."
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Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
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And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?"
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But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him r in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
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And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill.
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Then Abner called to Joab, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?"
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And Joab said, "As God lives, if s you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning."
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So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.
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And Abner and his men went all that night through t the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to u Mahanaim.
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Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel.
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But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner's men.
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And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.
2 Samuel 3
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There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
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v And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of w Ahinoam of Jezreel;
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and his second, Chileab, of w Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah x the daughter of Talmai king of y Geshur;
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and the fourth, z Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
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and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
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While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.
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Now Saul had a concubine whose name was a Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, b "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"
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Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I c a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
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d God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David e what the Lord has sworn to him,
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to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, f from Dan to Beersheba."
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And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
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And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you."
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And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, g you shall not see my face unless you first bring h Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."
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Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, i for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
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And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.
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But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to j Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned.
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And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, "For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.
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Now then bring it about, k for the Lord has promised David, saying, 'By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.'"
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Abner also spoke to l Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.
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When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
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And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go and m will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may n reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
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Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
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When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace."
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Then Joab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?
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You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know o your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."
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When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.
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And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, p and there he struck him q in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
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r May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without s one who has a discharge or who is t leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!"
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So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because u he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.
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Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, v "Tear your clothes and w put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
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They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
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And the king x lamented for Abner, saying,
y "Should Abner die z as a fool dies?
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Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
you have fallen."
And all the people wept again over him.
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Then all the people came a to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, b "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else c till the sun goes down!"
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And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.
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So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.
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And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
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And I was gentle today, though anointed king. d These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. e The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"
2 Samuel 4
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When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, f his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.
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Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth ( g for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;
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h the Beerothites fled i to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).
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j Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan k came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
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Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.
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And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him l in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of m the Arabah all night,
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and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, n who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring."
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But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, o "As the Lord lives, p who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
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q when one told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, r I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
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How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now s require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?"
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And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it t in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.
2 Samuel 5
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Then all the tribes of Israel u came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, v we are your bone and flesh.
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In times past, when Saul was king over us, w it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, x 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"
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So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, y and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron z before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.
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David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and a he reigned forty years.
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a At Hebron he reigned over Judah b seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
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c And the king and his men went to Jerusalem d against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off" - thinking, "David cannot come in here."
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Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, e that is, the city of David.
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And David said on that day, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."
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And David lived in the stronghold and called it e the city of David. And David built the city all around from the f Millo inward.
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And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him.
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g And h Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
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And David knew that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
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And David took more i concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
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j And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
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Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
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Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down k to the stronghold.
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Now the Philistines had come and spread out in l the Valley of Rephaim.
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And David m inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the Lord said to David, "Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand."
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And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, "The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood." n Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
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And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.
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And the Philistines came up yet again o and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
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p And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees.
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And q when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, r for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines."
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And David did as the Lord commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba s to Gezer.
2 Samuel 6
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t David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
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And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from u Baale-judah v to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts w who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
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And they carried the ark of God x on a new cart and brought it y out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,
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with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark.
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And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the Lord, with z songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
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And when they came to the threshing floor of a Nacon, Uzzah b put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.
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And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and c God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.
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And David was angry because the Lord had burst forth against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah, to this day.
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And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, "How can the ark of the Lord come to me?"
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So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside d to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
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And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, e and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
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And it was told King David, "The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." f So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom g to the city of David with rejoicing.
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And when h those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, i he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.
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And David j danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was k wearing a linen ephod.
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So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
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As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
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And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it l in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. m And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, n he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts
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and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. o Then all the people departed, each to his house.
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And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, p uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the q vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
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And David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, r who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord - and I will make merry before the Lord.
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I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."
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And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
2 Samuel 7
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s Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord t had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,
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the king said to u Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell v in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells w in a tent."
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And Nathan said to the king, x "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you."
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But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,
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"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord: y Would you build me a house to dwell in?
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I have not lived in a house z since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about a in a tent for my dwelling.
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In all places where b I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with c any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded d to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
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Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, e I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
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f And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
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And I will appoint a place for my people Israel g and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place h and be disturbed no more. i And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,
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j from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And k I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that l the Lord will make you a house.
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m When your days are fulfilled and n you lie down with your fathers, o I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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p He shall build a house for my name, and q I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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r I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, s I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
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s but my steadfast love will not depart from him, t as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
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u And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. u Your throne shall be established forever.'"
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In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
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Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, v "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
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And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. w You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
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And what more can David say to you? x For you know your servant, O Lord God!
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Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
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y Therefore you are great, O Lord God. z For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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a And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name b and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom c you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
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d And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.
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And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
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For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
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And now, O Lord God, you are God, and e your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
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Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, f and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever."
2 Samuel 8
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g After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took h Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
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i And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites j became servants to David and k brought tribute.
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David also defeated l Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of m Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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n And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David o hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.
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p And when the q Syrians of Damascus came to help l Hadadezer king of m Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.
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Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians r became servants to David and brought tribute. s And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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And David took t the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
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And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.
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When Toi king of u Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,
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Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.
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v These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
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from Edom, w Moab, x the Ammonites, y the Philistines, z Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of m Zobah.
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And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in a the Valley of Salt.
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Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, b and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
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c Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and d Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
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and e Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and f Seraiah was secretary,
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and g Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the h Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
2 Samuel 9
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And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may i show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
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Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was j Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant."
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And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show k the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of l Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet."
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The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of m Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar."
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Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.
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And n Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, "Mephibosheth!" And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant."
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And David said to him, "Do not fear, i for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and o you shall eat at my table always."
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And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for p a dead dog such as I?"
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Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson.
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And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson o shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had q fifteen sons and twenty servants.
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Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephibosheth o ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.
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And Mephibosheth had a young son, r whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba's house became Mephibosheth's servants.
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So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for o he ate always at the king's table. Now l he was lame in both his feet.
2 Samuel 10
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s After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
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And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of t Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.
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But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?"
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So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, u at their hips, and sent them away.
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When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return."
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When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of v Beth-rehob, and w the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of x Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of y Tob, 12,000 men.
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And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of z the mighty men.
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And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and w the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and y the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
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When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.
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The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.
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And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
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a Be of good courage, and b let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and c may the Lord do what seems good to him."
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So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
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And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
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But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
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And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond d the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with e Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
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And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.
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And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded f Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.
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And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel g and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.
2 Samuel 11
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h i In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged j Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
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It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on k the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
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And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this l Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of m Uriah the Hittite?"
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So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ( n Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
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And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."
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So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.
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When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.
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Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and o wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
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But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
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When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
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Uriah said to David, p "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and q the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and r as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."
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Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, s so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with q the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
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In the morning David t wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, u that he may be struck down, and die."
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And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
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And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.
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Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.
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And he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,
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then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
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v Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
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So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.
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The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
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David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Joab, 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.' And encourage him."
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When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.
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And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and w she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
2 Samuel 12
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And the Lord sent x Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, y "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
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The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
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but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
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Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
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Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, z "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,
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and he shall restore the lamb a fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."
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Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, b 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
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c Why have you despised the word of the Lord, d to do what is evil in his sight? e You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and f have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
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Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
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For you did it secretly, g but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
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h David said to Nathan, i "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, j "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly k scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die."
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Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick.
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David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David l fasted and went in m and lay all night on the ground.
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And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
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On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."
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But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."
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Then David arose from the earth n and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord o and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.
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Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."
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He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, p 'Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
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But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, q but he will not return to me."
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Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and r she bore a son, and he called his name s Solomon. And the Lord loved him
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and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
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t Now Joab u fought against v Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
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And Joab sent messengers to David and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.
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Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name."
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So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
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And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
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And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 13
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Now w Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was x Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.
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And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.
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But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of y Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.
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And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
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Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, 'Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.'"
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So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and z make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him."
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So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.
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And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, a "Send out everyone from me." So everyone went out from him.
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Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
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But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."
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She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for b such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this c outrageous thing.
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As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of d the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."
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But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.
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Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up! Go!"
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But she said to him, "No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
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He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her."
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Now she was wearing e a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.
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And Tamar f put ashes on her head and g tore the long robe that she wore. And h she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.
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And her brother Absalom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom's house.
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When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
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But Absalom spoke to Amnon i neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.
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After two full years Absalom had j sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
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And Absalom came to the king and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant."
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But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.
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Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"
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But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
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Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's k heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."
29
So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.
30
While they were on the way, news came to David, "Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not one of them is left."
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Then the king arose and l tore his garments and m lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.
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But n Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, "Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.
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Now therefore let not my lord the king so o take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead."
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p But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.
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And Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about."
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And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.
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q But Absalom fled and went to r Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of s Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
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q So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
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And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because t he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.
2 Samuel 14
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Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew u that the king's heart went out to Absalom.
2
And Joab sent to v Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. w Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.
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Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab x put the words in her mouth.
4
When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, y she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, z "Save me, O king."
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And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, a "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
6
And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
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And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would b destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor c remnant on the face of the earth."
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Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."
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And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, d "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."
10
The king said, "If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again."
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Then she said, "Please let the king invoke the Lord your God, that e the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, f "As the Lord lives, g not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
12
Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."
13
And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against h the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring i his banished one home again.
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We must all die; we are j like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means k so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
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Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
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For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from l the heritage of God.'
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And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is m like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!"
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Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."
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The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, n "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; o it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
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In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of m the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."
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Then the king said to Joab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom."
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And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage p and blessed the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."
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So Joab arose and went to q Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king's presence.
25
Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. r From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
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And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he s cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.
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There were born t to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.
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So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.
29
Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.
30
Then he said to his servants, "See, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
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Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
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Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from q Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, u and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.'"
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Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.
2 Samuel 15
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After this Absalom v got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2
And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside w the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"
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Absalom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you."
4
Then Absalom would say, x "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
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And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.
6
Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
7
And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
8
For your servant z vowed a vow a while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.'"
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The king said to him, b "Go in peace." So he arose and went to Hebron.
10
But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, 'Absalom is king at Hebron!'"
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With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem c who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.
12
And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for d Ahithophel the Gilonite, e David's counselor, from his city f Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom g kept increasing.
13
And a messenger came to David, saying, h "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom."
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Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us i flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword."
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And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides."
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So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left j ten concubines to keep the house.
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And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.
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And k all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from l Gath, passed on before the king.
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Then the king said to m Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.
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You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go n I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."
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But Ittai answered the king, o "As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, p wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."
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And David said to Ittai, "Go then, pass on." So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.
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And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed q the brook r Kidron, and all the people passed on toward s the wilderness.
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And t Abiathar came up, and behold, u Zadok came also with all the Levites, v bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.
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Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will w bring me back and let me see both it and his x dwelling place.
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But if he says, 'I have no y pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, z let him do to me what seems good to him."
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The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with b your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
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See, I will wait at c the fords of s the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me."
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So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.
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But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, d barefoot and e with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, f weeping as they went.
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And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O Lord, please g turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
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While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai h the Archite came to meet him i with his coat torn and i dirt on his head.
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David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be j a burden to me.
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But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, k 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, l tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
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Behold, m their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, m and by them you shall send to me everything you hear."
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So Hushai, n David's friend, came into the city, o just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16
1
When David had passed a little beyond p the summit, q Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, r a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
2
And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, s "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who t faint in the wilderness to drink."
3
And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" u Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'"
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Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours." And Ziba said, "I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king."
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When King David came to v Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was w Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came x he cursed continually.
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And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
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And Shimei said as he x cursed, "Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!
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The Lord y has avenged on you all z the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood."
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Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this a dead dog b curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."
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But the king said, c "What have I to do with you, d you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"
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And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, e my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.
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It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today."
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So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and f cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.
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And the king, and all the people who were with him, g arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.
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h Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
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And when Hushai the Archite, h David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, i "Long live the king! Long live the king!"
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And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? j Why did you not go with your friend?"
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And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.
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And again, k whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you."
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Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel. What shall we do?"
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Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to l your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and m the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."
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So they pitched a tent for Absalom n on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines o in the sight of all Israel.
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Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, p both by David and by Absalom.
2 Samuel 17
1
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
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I will come upon him while he is q weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. r I will strike down only the king,
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and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace."
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And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
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Then Absalom said, "Call s Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say."
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And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, "Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak."
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Then Hushai said to Absalom, "This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good."
8
Hushai said, "You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, t like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
9
Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, 'There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.'
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Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly u melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.
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But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, v from Dan to Beersheba, w as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.
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So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.
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If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there."
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And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." x For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
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y Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.
16
Now therefore send quickly and tell David, 'Do not stay tonight at z the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be a swallowed up.'"
17
Now b Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at c En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.
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But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at d Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.
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e And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.
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When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
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After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, f "Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you."
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Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to g his own city. He h set his house in order and i hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
24
Then David came to j Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
25
Now Absalom had set k Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of l Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
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And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
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When David came to Mahanaim, m Shobi the son of Nahash from n Rabbah of the Ammonites, and o Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and p Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,
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brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,
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honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and q weary and thirsty r in the wilderness."
2 Samuel 18
1
Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
2
And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of s Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."
3
t But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city."
4
The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
5
And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." u And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.
6
So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the v forest of Ephraim.
7
And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.
8
The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.
9
And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, w and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.
10
And a certain man saw it and told Joab, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak."
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Joab said to the man who told him, "What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt."
12
But the man said to Joab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for x in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'For my sake protect the young man Absalom.'
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On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."
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Joab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.
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And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.
16
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.
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And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him y a very great heap of stones. And all Israel z fled every one to his own home.
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Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a the pillar that is in b the King's Valley, for he said, c "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, d "Let me run and carry news to the king that e the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
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And Joab said to him, "You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king's son is dead."
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Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.
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Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, "Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite." And Joab said, "Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?"
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"Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of f the plain, and outran the Cushite.
24
Now David g was sitting between the two gates, and h the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.
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The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." And he drew nearer and nearer.
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The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, "See, another man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news."
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The watchman said, "I think the running of the first is i like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." And the king said, j "He is a good man and comes with good news."
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Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, "All is well." And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, k "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."
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And the king said, l "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was."
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And the king said, "Turn aside and stand here." So he turned aside and stood still.
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And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For m the Lord has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
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The king said to the Cushite, l "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, n "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man."
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And the king was deeply moved and went up g to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, o "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
2 Samuel 19
1
It was told Joab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom."
2
So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son."
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And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.
4
The king p covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, q "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
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Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,
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because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
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Now therefore arise, go out and speak r kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now."
8
Then the king arose and took his s seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had t fled every man to his own home.
9
And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, u "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and v saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now w he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
10
But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"
11
And King David sent this message to x Zadok and Abiathar the priests: "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?
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You are my brothers; y you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'
13
And say to Amasa, z 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? a God do so to me and more also, if you are not b commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'"
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And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah c as one man, so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants."
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So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.
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And d Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
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And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And e Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,
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and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,
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and said to the king, f "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant g did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.
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For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first h of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."
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Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because i he cursed the Lord's anointed?"
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But David said, j "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? k Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"
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l And the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath.
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And m Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.
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And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, n "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"
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He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.' For o your servant is lame.
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p He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is q like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
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For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but r you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?"
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And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."
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And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home."
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Now s Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.
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Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. t He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
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And the king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem."
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But Barzillai said to the king, u "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
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I am this day v eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be w an added burden to my lord the king?
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Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
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Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant x Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you."
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And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you."
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Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And y the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.
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The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.
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Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and z brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"
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All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"
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And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have b ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" c But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20
1
Now there happened to be there d a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said,
e "We have no portion in David,
and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;
f every man to his tents, O Israel!"
2
So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
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And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took g the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
4
Then the king said to h Amasa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself."
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So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.
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And David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take i your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us."
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And there went out after him Joab's men and the j Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
8
When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.
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And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand k to kiss him.
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But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab's hand. l So Joab struck him with it m in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
11
And one of Joab's young men took his stand by Amasa and said, "Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab."
12
And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.
13
When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
14
And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to n Abel of n Beth-maacah, and all o the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.
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And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in n Abel of Beth-maacah. p They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.
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Then a wise woman called from the city, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, 'Come here, that I may speak to you.'"
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And he came near her, and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." And he answered, "I am listening."
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Then she said, "They used to say in former times, 'Let them but ask counsel at n Abel,' and so they settled a matter.
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I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you q swallow up r the heritage of the Lord?"
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Joab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should q swallow up or destroy!
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That is not true. But a man of s the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." And the woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."
22
Then the woman went to all the people t in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, u every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
23
v Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
24
and w Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
25
and Sheva was secretary; and x Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
26
and y Ira the Jairite was also David's priest.
2 Samuel 21
1
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David z sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."
2
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but a of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.
3
And David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless b the heritage of the Lord?"
4
The Gibeonites said to him, "It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "What do you say that I shall do for you?"
5
They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,
6
let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at c Gibeah of Saul, d the chosen of the Lord." And the king said, "I will give them."
7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of e the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8
The king took the two sons of f Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom g she bore to h Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
9
and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, i at the beginning of barley harvest.
10
j Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
11
When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,
12
David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, k who had stolen them from the public square of l Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.
13
And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
14
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in m Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that n God responded to the plea for the land.
15
There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.
16
And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants o of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.
17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, p "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench q the lamp of Israel."
18
r After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then s Sibbecai t the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants u of the giants.
19
And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and v Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, w the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20
And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended x from the giants.
21
And when y he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.
22
These four were descended x from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
2 Samuel 22
1
And David spoke z to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
2
a He said,
b "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
3
c my God, my rock, d in whom I take refuge,
e my shield, and f the horn of my salvation,
g my stronghold and h my refuge,
my savior; you save me from violence.
4
I call upon the Lord, who is i worthy to be praised,
and I am saved from my enemies.
5
j "For the waves of death encompassed me,
the torrents of destruction assailed me;
6
k the cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.
7
l "In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry m came to his ears.
8
"Then n the earth reeled and rocked;
o the foundations of the heavens trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.
9
Smoke went up from his nostrils,
and devouring fire from his mouth;
p glowing coals flamed forth from him.
10
q He bowed the heavens and r came down;
s thick darkness was under his feet.
11
He rode on a cherub and flew;
he was seen on t the wings of the wind.
12
He made s darkness around him u his canopy,
thick clouds, a gathering of water.
13
Out of the brightness before him
v coals of fire flamed forth.
14
w The Lord thundered from heaven,
and the Most High uttered his voice.
15
And he sent out x arrows and scattered them;
lightning, and routed them.
16
Then the channels of the sea were seen;
the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the y blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17
z "He sent from on high, he took me;
he drew me out of many waters.
18
He rescued me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
19
They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
but the Lord was my support.
20
a He brought me out into a broad place;
he rescued me, because b he delighted in me.
21
"The Lord c dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the d cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
22
e For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23
f For all his rules were before me,
and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
24
I was g blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
25
d And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to my cleanness in his sight.
26
h "With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
with the g blameless man you show yourself blameless;
27
with the purified you deal purely,
and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
28
i You save a humble people,
j but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29
k For you are my lamp, O Lord,
and my God lightens my darkness.
30
For by you I can run against a troop,
and by my God I can leap over a wall.
31
This God - l his way is perfect;
the m word of the Lord proves true;
he is n a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
32
"For who is God, but the Lord?
o And who is a rock, except our God?
33
This God is my p strong refuge
and has made my way blameless.
34
q He made my feet like the feet of a deer
and set me secure r on the heights.
35
s He trains my hands for war,
so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
36
You have given me the shield of your salvation,
and your gentleness made me great.
37
t You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip;
38
I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
and did not turn back until they were consumed.
39
I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;
they fell u under my feet.
40
For you equipped me with strength for the battle;
you made v those who rise against me sink under me.
41
You w made my enemies turn their backs to me,
those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
42
They looked, but there was none to save;
they cried to the Lord, but x he did not answer them.
43
I beat them fine y as the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down z like the mire of the streets.
44
"You delivered me from strife with my people;
you kept me as the head of a the nations;
b people whom I had not known served me.
45
Foreigners came cringing to me;
as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
46
Foreigners lost heart
and came trembling c out of their fortresses.
47
"The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
and exalted be d my God, e the rock of my salvation,
48
the God who gave me vengeance
and f brought down peoples under me,
49
who brought me out from my enemies;
you exalted me above v those who rose against me;
you delivered me from g men of violence.
50
h "For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,
and sing praises to your name.
51
i Great salvation he brings to his king,
and shows steadfast love to j his anointed,
to David and his offspring k forever."
2 Samuel 23
1
Now these are the last words of David:
The oracle of David, the son of Jesse,
the oracle of l the man who was raised on high,
j the anointed of the God of Jacob,
the sweet psalmist of Israel:
2
m "The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me;
his word is on my tongue.
3
The God of Israel has spoken;
n the Rock of Israel has said to me:
When one rules justly over men,
ruling o in the fear of God,
4
he p dawns on them like the morning light,
like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
5
"For does not my house stand so with God?
q For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure.
For will he not cause to prosper
all my help and my desire?
6
But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
7
but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire."
8
r These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: s Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.
9
And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of t Dodo, son of u Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.
10
He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the Lord brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.
11
And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the v Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.
12
But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the Lord worked a great victory.
13
And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the w cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped x in the Valley of Rephaim.
14
David was then y in the stronghold, and z the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
15
And David said longingly, "Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!"
16
Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the Lord
17
and said, "Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink a the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
18
Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three.
19
He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to b the three.
20
And c Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of d Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
21
And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
22
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.
23
He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
24
e Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
25
f Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod,
26
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh g of Tekoa,
27
Abiezer h of Anathoth, Mebunnai i the Hushathite,
28
Zalmon j the Ahohite, Maharai k of Netophah,
29
Heleb the son of Baanah k of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of l Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,
30
Benaiah m of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of n Gaash,
31
Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of o Bahurim,
32
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
33
p Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
34
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai q of Maacah, r Eliam the son of s Ahithophel of Gilo,
35
Hezro t of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,
36
Igal the son of Nathan u of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
37
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai v of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
38
w Ira the x Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
39
y Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
2 Samuel 24
1
z a Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, b "Go, number Israel and Judah."
2
So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, c from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people."
3
But Joab said to the king, d "May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"
4
But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.
5
They crossed the Jordan and began from e Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the f valley, toward Gad and on to g Jazer.
6
Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to h Sidon,
7
and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the i Hivites and i Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.
8
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9
And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men j who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.
10
But k David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, l "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done m very foolishly."
11
And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to n the prophet Gad, David's o seer, saying,
12
"Go and say to David, 'Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'"
13
So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall p three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."
14
Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, q for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man."
15
r So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from s Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
16
And when t the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem u to destroy it, v the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel u who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And t the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of w Araunah the Jebusite.
17
Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house."
18
And Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of x Araunah the Jebusite."
19
So David went up at Gad's word, as the Lord commanded.
20
And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.
21
And Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague y may be averted from the people."
22
Then Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the z threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
23
All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the Lord your God a accept you."
24
But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25
And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. b So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
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1 Samuel 30:17 - 20
And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.
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2 Samuel 4:10
When one told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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2 Samuel 14:4
When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, "Save me, O king.
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1 Samuel 4:16
And the man said to Eli, "I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today." And he said, "How did it go, my son?
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2 Samuel 1:6 - 10
And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
1 Samuel 31:1 - 4
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:1 - 6
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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Judges 9:54
Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
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2 Kings 11:12
Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!
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2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.
2 Samuel 3:31
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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2 Samuel 3:35
Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord 's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord 's anointed.
1 Samuel 24:10
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord 's anointed.
1 Samuel 26:9
But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord 's anointed and be guiltless?
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me." But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.
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2 Samuel 4:10
When one told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
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2 Samuel 3:29
May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!
Joshua 2:19
Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
1 Kings 2:37
For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!
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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.
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2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
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Joshua 10:13
And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
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2 Samuel 1:25
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
2 Samuel 1:27
"How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"
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Micah 1:10
Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.
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1 Samuel 31:9
So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
Amos 3:9
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
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Judges 14:3
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.
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1 Samuel 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
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1 Samuel 18:4
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
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Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles - woe to us, for we are ruined!
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
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Judges 14:18
And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.
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Ezekiel 16:11
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
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2 Samuel 1:19
Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
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1 Samuel 18:1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
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2 Samuel 1:25
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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Joshua 14:13
Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
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1 Samuel 25:42 - 43
And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
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1 Samuel 27:2 - 3
So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire
1 Chronicles 12:1 - 22
Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.
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2 Samuel 5:5
At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
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1 Samuel 31:11 - 13
But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
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Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
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2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.
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1 Samuel 14:50
And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
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Joshua 13:26
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.
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2 Samuel 5:5
At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
1 Kings 2:11
And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.
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Jeremiah 41:12
They took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool that is in Gibeon.
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1 Chronicles 2:16
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Samuel 26:6
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you.
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2 Samuel 22:34
He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set...
1 Chronicles 12:8
From the Gadites there went over to David at th...
Psalms 18:33
He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set...
Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, tu...
Song of Solomon 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle o...
Habakkuk 3:19
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet...
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2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Samuel 4:6
And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab's hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
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2 Samuel 2:14
And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and compete before us." And Joab said, "Let them arise.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
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Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
Joshua 13:26
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.
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2 Samuel 3:2 - 5
And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel.
1 Chronicles 3:1 - 4
These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite.
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1 Samuel 25:42 - 43
And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
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2 Samuel 3:2
And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel.
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2 Samuel 13:37 - 38
But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
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2 Samuel 14:32
Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.'
2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.'
1 Samuel 27:8
Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
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1 Kings 1:5
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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2 Samuel 21:8 - 10
The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.
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1 Samuel 17:43
And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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2 Samuel 3:35
Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!
Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
1 Samuel 28:17
The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.
1 Chronicles 12:23
These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.
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2 Samuel 17:11
But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered t...
2 Samuel 24:2
So the king said to Joab, the commander of the ...
2 Samuel 24:15
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from th...
Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Da...
1 Samuel 3:20
And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that ...
1 Kings 4:25
And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan ...
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Genesis 43:3
But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.
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1 Samuel 14:49
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
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1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 18:27
David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
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2 Samuel 16:5
When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
2 Samuel 17:18
But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.
2 Samuel 19:16
And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
1 Kings 2:8
And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
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2 Samuel 3:9
God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the Lord has sworn to him.
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1 Chronicles 12:29
Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
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2 Samuel 3:12
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.
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1 Kings 11:37
And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.
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1 Samuel 29:6
Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.
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1 Kings 2:5
Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
2 Samuel 20:9 - 10
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord 's anointed.'
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Leviticus 15:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
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Leviticus 14:2
This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
1 Kings 20:31
And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.
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2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son.
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
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2 Samuel 13:12 - 13
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.
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2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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2 Samuel 16:10
But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'
2 Samuel 19:22
But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?
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Psalms 28:4
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
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Ezra 4:4
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build
Isaiah 13:7
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth.
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1 Samuel 31:7
And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
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Nehemiah 11:33
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim.
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2 Samuel 9:3
And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.
2 Samuel 9:6
And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, "Mephibosheth!" And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant.
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1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.
1 Samuel 29:11
So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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2 Samuel 2:29
And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to Mahanaim.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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1 Samuel 19:10 - 11
And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 23:15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Kings 1:29
And the king swore, saying, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity.
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2 Samuel 1:4 - 10
And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.
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2 Samuel 1:15
Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, execute him." And he struck him down so that he died.
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Genesis 9:5 - 6
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
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2 Samuel 3:32
They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
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2 Samuel 5:1 - 3
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
1 Chronicles 11:1 - 3
Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
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Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
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1 Samuel 18:13
So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.
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2 Samuel 7:7
In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"
Psalms 78:71 - 72
From following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
Matthew 2:6
"'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
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2 Samuel 3:12 - 13
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.
2 Samuel 3:21
And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lord 's people, and also between the king and the people.
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Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 23:18
And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
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1 Kings 2:11
And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 3:4
Six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29:27
The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 5:4
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
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2 Samuel 2:11
And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
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2 Samuel 5:6 - 10
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off" - thinking, "David cannot come in here.
1 Chronicles 11:4 - 9
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
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Judges 19:11
When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.
Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 1:21
But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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2 Samuel 6:12
And it was told King David, "The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
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2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
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1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
1 Kings 11:27
And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
2 Kings 12:20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
2 Chronicles 32:5
He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
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2 Samuel 5:11 - 25
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
1 Chronicles 14:1 - 16
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
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1 Kings 5:1
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 3:9
All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.
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1 Chronicles 3:5 - 8
These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel.
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2 Samuel 23:14
David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 22:4 - 5
And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
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2 Samuel 5:22
And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 23:13
And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Joshua 15:8
Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
Joshua 18:16
Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.
Joshua 17:15
And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
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2 Samuel 2:1
After this David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron.
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Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed - strange is his deed! and to work his work - alien is his work!
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2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.
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Judges 4:14
And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.
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Joshua 10:33
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.
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2 Samuel 6:1 - 11
David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
1 Chronicles 13:6 - 14
And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim that belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord who sits enthroned above the cherubim.
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Joshua 15:9
Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah ( that is, Kiriath-jearim).
Joshua 15:60
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.
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2 Chronicles 1:4
(But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)
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Exodus 25:22
There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
1 Samuel 4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Psalms 80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
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1 Samuel 6:7
Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
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1 Samuel 7:1
And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 13:8
And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
Psalms 150:3 - 5
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
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1 Chronicles 13:9
And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.
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1 Samuel 6:19
And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow.
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1 Chronicles 15:25
So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
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1 Chronicles 26:5
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God blessed him.
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2 Samuel 6:12 - 19
And it was told King David, "The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
1 Chronicles 15:25 - 16:3
So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
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1 Kings 8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.
Joshua 3:3
And commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.
1 Chronicles 15:15
And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
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1 Kings 8:5
And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
Psalms 30:11
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.
Psalms 150:4
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
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1 Samuel 2:18
Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.
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1 Chronicles 15:1
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
2 Chronicles 1:4
(But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)
Psalms 132:8
Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
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1 Kings 8:5
And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
1 Kings 8:62 - 63
Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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1 Kings 8:14
Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kings 8:55
And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying.
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1 Chronicles 16:43
Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.
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2 Samuel 6:14
And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
1 Samuel 19:24
And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
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1 Samuel 13:14
But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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2 Samuel 7:1 - 29
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
1 Chronicles 17:1 - 27
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.
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Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
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2 Samuel 7:17
In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
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2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
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Exodus 26:1
Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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1 Kings 8:17 - 18
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
1 Chronicles 28:2
Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.
Acts 7:46
Who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
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1 Kings 5:3
You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.
1 Chronicles 22:8
But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.
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1 Kings 8:16
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
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Exodus 40:18 - 19
Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.
Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
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Leviticus 26:11 - 12
I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
Deuteronomy 23:14
Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
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1 Chronicles 17:6
In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
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2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'
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1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
Psalms 78:70
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.
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2 Samuel 5:10
And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him.
2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Samuel 18:14
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
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Psalms 44:2
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
Amos 9:15
I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the Lord your God.
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2 Kings 21:8
And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.
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Psalms 89:22
The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him.
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Judges 2:14 - 16
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
1 Samuel 12:9 - 11
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
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2 Samuel 7:27
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
1 Kings 11:38
And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Exodus 1:21
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.
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1 Kings 2:1
When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying.
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1 Kings 1:21
Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.
1 Kings 2:10
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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1 Kings 8:20
Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Psalms 132:11
The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
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1 Kings 5:5
And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
1 Chronicles 28:6
He said to me, 'It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
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2 Samuel 7:16
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'
Psalms 89:4
I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
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Psalms 89:26 - 27
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?
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Psalms 89:32 - 33
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
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2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
1 Kings 11:13
However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:34
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Luke 1:33
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Luke 1:33
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
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Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
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2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:17
And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God!
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Psalms 139:1 - 4
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
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1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
2 Chronicles 2:5
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
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Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is...
Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your se...
Psalms 86:8
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, ...
Psalms 89:6
For who in the skies can be compared to the Lor...
Psalms 89:8
O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, ...
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides m...
Jeremiah 10:6
There is none like you, O Lord ; you are great,...
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.
Psalms 147:20
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
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Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
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Deuteronomy 9:26
And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Nehemiah 1:10
They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Samuel 7:16
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.
2 Samuel 7:26
And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.
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John 17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
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2 Samuel 22:51
Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Psalms 89:28 - 29
My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
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2 Samuel 8:1 - 18
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18:1 - 17
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
Psalms 60:1
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.
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1 Chronicles 18:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.
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2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
Psalms 60:8
Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
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1 Samuel 10:27
But some worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
Psalms 72:10
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
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2 Samuel 10:16
And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
2 Samuel 10:19
And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.
1 Chronicles 18:3
David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphrates.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
1 Samuel 14:47
When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.
1 Kings 11:23
God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
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1 Chronicles 18:4
And David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for 100 chariots.
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Joshua 11:6
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.
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1 Kings 11:23 - 25
God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
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Joshua 11:6
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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2 Samuel 8:2
And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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2 Kings 11:10
And the priest gave to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 23:9
And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God.
Song of Solomon 4:4
Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
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1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
2 Kings 18:34
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
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1 Kings 7:51
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 26:26
This Shelomoth and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts that David the king and the heads of the fathers' houses and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.
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2 Samuel 8:2
And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
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2 Samuel 10:14
And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 12:30
And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
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2 Samuel 5:17 - 25
When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
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1 Samuel 30:20
David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, "This is David's spoil.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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2 Kings 14:7
He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.
Joshua 15:62
Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
Genesis 27:37
Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?
Genesis 27:40
By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.
Numbers 24:18
Edom shall be dispossessed; Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly.
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2 Samuel 8:16 - 18
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
2 Samuel 20:23 - 26
Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites.
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1 Kings 4:3
Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
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1 Chronicles 24:3
With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.
1 Chronicles 24:6
And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father's house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.
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1 Chronicles 18:16
And Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary.
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1 Kings 4:4
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
2 Samuel 23:20 - 23
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
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2 Samuel 15:18
And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2 Samuel 20:7
And there went out after him Joab's men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
1 Samuel 30:14
We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
1 Kings 1:38
So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon.
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1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:14 - 15
If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die.
1 Samuel 20:42
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
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2 Samuel 16:1 - 4
When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 19:17
And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king.
2 Samuel 19:29
And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.
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1 Samuel 20:14
If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die.
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2 Samuel 4:4
Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
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2 Samuel 17:27
When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
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2 Samuel 16:4
Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that b...
2 Samuel 19:24 - 25
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to m...
2 Samuel 19:30
And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Oh, let him...
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Sa...
1 Chronicles 8:34
And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Mer...
1 Chronicles 9:40
And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Mer...
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2 Samuel 9:1
And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
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2 Samuel 19:28
For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?
1 Kings 2:7
But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
2 Kings 25:29
So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table.
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2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.
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2 Samuel 19:17
And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king.
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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.
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1 Chronicles 8:34
And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.
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2 Samuel 9:3
And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.
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2 Samuel 10:1 - 19
After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 19:1 - 19
Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his place.
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
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Isaiah 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
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Judges 18:28
And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
2 Samuel 8:5
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.
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Joshua 13:11
And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah.
Joshua 13:13
Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
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Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
Judges 11:5
And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.
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2 Samuel 23:8
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
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1 Samuel 4:9
Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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1 Samuel 3:18
So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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1 Chronicles 19:16
But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
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1 Chronicles 19:18
And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army.
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2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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1 Chronicles 20:1
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.
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1 Kings 20:22
Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.
1 Kings 20:26
In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
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1 Samuel 9:25
And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
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1 Chronicles 3:5
These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel.
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2 Samuel 23:39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
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Leviticus 15:19
When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:28
But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Leviticus 18:19
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
2 Samuel 7:6
I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.
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2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.
1 Kings 1:33
And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
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1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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Genesis 19:33
So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
Genesis 19:35
So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
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1 Kings 21:8 - 9
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.
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2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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Judges 9:53
And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.
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2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus sa...
2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against th...
2 Samuel 12:15
Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord aff...
2 Samuel 12:25
And sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he...
2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, ...
2 Samuel 7:4
But that same night the word of the Lord came t...
2 Samuel 7:17
In accordance with all these words, and in acco...
1 Kings 1:10
But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Ben...
1 Kings 1:22
While she was still speaking with the king, Nat...
1 Kings 1:34
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet...
1 Kings 4:5
Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers...
1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of King David, from first to last,...
2 Chronicles 9:29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first...
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2 Samuel 14:5 - 7
And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
Judges 9:8 - 15
The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.
1 Kings 20:35 - 41
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the Lord, "Strike me, please." But the man refused to strike him.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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Exodus 22:1
If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.
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1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
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Numbers 15:31
Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.
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1 Samuel 15:19
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord ? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord ?
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2 Samuel 11:15
In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.
2 Samuel 11:17
And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.
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2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
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2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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2 Samuel 24:10
But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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Psalms 32:1
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
Zechariah 3:4
And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.
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Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
Ezekiel 36:20
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.
Ezekiel 36:23
And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Romans 2:24
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
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1 Kings 21:27
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.
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Ruth 3:3
Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
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Job 1:20
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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Jonah 3:9
Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.
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Job 7:8 - 10
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
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Matthew 1:6
And Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah.
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1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
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2 Samuel 12:26 - 31
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
1 Chronicles 20:1 - 3
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.
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2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
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2 Samuel 3:2 - 3
And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel.
1 Chronicles 3:2
The third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith.
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1 Chronicles 3:9
All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.
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1 Chronicles 2:13
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third.
1 Samuel 16:9
Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one.
1 Samuel 17:13
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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Genesis 18:6
And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.
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Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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Leviticus 18:9
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
Leviticus 18:11
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.
Leviticus 20:17
If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.
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Genesis 34:7
The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.
Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
Judges 20:6
So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
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2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?
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Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
Judges 5:30
'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
Psalms 45:14
In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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Jeremiah 2:37
From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.
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Genesis 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the Lord ; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Genesis 38:12 - 13
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
1 Samuel 25:4
David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
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Judges 19:6
So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.
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2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
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2 Samuel 13:3
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.
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2 Samuel 19:19
And said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.
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2 Samuel 13:37 - 38
But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
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2 Samuel 13:34
But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.
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2 Samuel 3:3
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur.
1 Chronicles 3:2
The third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith.
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2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14:32
Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.
2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.
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2 Samuel 13:37
But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
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Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 38:12
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
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2 Samuel 13:39
And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.
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2 Chronicles 11:6
He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa.
2 Chronicles 20:20
And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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2 Samuel 12:20
Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.
Ruth 3:3
Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
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2 Samuel 14:19
The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
Exodus 4:15
You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
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2 Samuel 1:2
And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.
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2 Kings 6:26
Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!
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2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
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Matthew 21:38
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.
Mark 12:7
But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
Luke 20:14
But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.
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Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
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1 Samuel 25:24
She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
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Numbers 35:19
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
Numbers 35:21
Or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
Deuteronomy 19:12
Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 14:45
Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.
Acts 27:34
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.
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Judges 20:2
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
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2 Samuel 13:37 - 38
But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
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1 Samuel 7:6
So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the Lord." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
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Numbers 35:15
These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.
Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:28
For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.
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1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.
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2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
1 Samuel 29:9
And Achish answered David and said, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.
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1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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2 Samuel 14:3
Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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2 Samuel 14:17
And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!
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1 Kings 8:66
On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
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2 Samuel 13:38
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
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Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Job 2:7
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
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Ezekiel 44:20
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.
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2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?
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1 Kings 1:5
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Judges 9:29
Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, 'Increase your army, and come out.'
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Genesis 28:20 - 21
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow and said, "O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.
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2 Samuel 13:38
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
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1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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1 Samuel 9:13
As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.
1 Samuel 16:3
And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.
1 Samuel 16:5
And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel. What shall we do?
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:14
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
Psalms 41:9
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Psalms 55:12 - 14
For it is not an enemy who taunts me - then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me - then I could hide from him.
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Joshua 15:51
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
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Psalms 3:1
O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me.
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Judges 9:3
And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother.
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2 Samuel 19:9
And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
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2 Samuel 16:21 - 22
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.
2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
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2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
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1 Samuel 27:2
So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
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2 Samuel 18:2
And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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Ruth 1:16 - 17
But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
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1 Kings 2:37
For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.
1 Kings 15:13
He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
2 Kings 23:12
And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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John 18:1
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
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2 Samuel 16:2
And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.
2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly and tell David, 'Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'
2 Samuel 17:29
Honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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1 Samuel 22:20
But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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2 Samuel 8:17
And Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary.
2 Samuel 20:25
And Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
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Psalms 43:3
Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!
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Exodus 15:13
You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
Jeremiah 25:30
You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
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2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me out into a broad place; he rescue...
Numbers 14:8
If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us in...
1 Kings 10:9
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted...
2 Chronicles 9:8
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted...
Psalms 18:19
He brought me out into a broad place; he rescue...
Psalms 22:8
"He trusts in the Lord ; let him deliver him; l...
Isaiah 62:4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your ...
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1 Samuel 3:18
So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him.
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1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.
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2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly and tell David, 'Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.
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2 Samuel 15:23
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
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Isaiah 20:2 - 4
At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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2 Samuel 19:4
The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Esther 6:12
Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.
Jeremiah 14:3 - 4
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
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Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
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2 Samuel 16:23
Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:14
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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Joshua 16:2
Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
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2 Samuel 16:19
And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.
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2 Samuel 17:15 - 16
Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.
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2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.
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2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.
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2 Samuel 16:16
And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!
1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
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2 Samuel 16:15
Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
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2 Samuel 15:30
But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.
2 Samuel 15:32
While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.
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2 Samuel 9:2 - 13
Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant.
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1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
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Judges 5:10
Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
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2 Samuel 16:14
And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.
2 Samuel 17:29
Honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 19:26 - 27
He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.' For your servant is lame.
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2 Samuel 3:16
But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned.
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2 Samuel 19:16
And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
1 Kings 2:8
And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
1 Kings 2:36 - 46
Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever.
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2 Samuel 19:21
Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord 's anointed?
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2 Samuel 16:5
When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
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Judges 9:24
That the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
Judges 9:56 - 57
Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
1 Kings 2:32 - 33
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
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2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord 's anointed.
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2 Samuel 9:8
And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
2 Samuel 3:8
Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
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Exodus 22:28
You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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2 Samuel 19:22
But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?
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1 Samuel 26:6
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you.
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2 Samuel 12:11
Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
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2 Samuel 19:21
Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord 's anointed?
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2 Samuel 16:2
And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.
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2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 16:15
Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
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1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!
1 Kings 1:25
For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!
1 Kings 1:39
There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!
2 Kings 11:12
Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!
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2 Samuel 19:25
And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
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2 Samuel 15:34
But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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2 Samuel 15:16
So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
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2 Samuel 2:7
Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.
Zechariah 8:9
Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
Zechariah 8:13
And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.
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1 Samuel 9:25
And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
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2 Samuel 12:11 - 12
Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
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2 Samuel 15:12
And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
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2 Samuel 16:14
And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.
Deuteronomy 25:18
How he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.
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1 Kings 22:31
Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.
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2 Samuel 16:16 - 18
And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!
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Proverbs 17:12
Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
Hosea 13:8
I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
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Joshua 2:11
And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
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2 Samuel 3:10
To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 15:34
But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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2 Samuel 15:35 - 36
Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
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2 Samuel 15:28
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.
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2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord ?
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2 Samuel 15:27
The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2 Samuel 15:36
Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.
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Joshua 15:7
And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.
Joshua 18:16
Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.
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2 Samuel 3:16
But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned.
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Joshua 2:6
But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.
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2 Samuel 17:15 - 16
Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.
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2 Samuel 15:12
And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
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2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.'
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Matthew 27:5
And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.
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Joshua 13:26
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.
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2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'
2 Samuel 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:12
And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.
1 Kings 2:5
Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
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1 Chronicles 2:13
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third.
1 Chronicles 2:16
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
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2 Samuel 10:1 - 2
After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
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2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
2 Samuel 12:29
So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
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2 Samuel 9:4
The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.
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2 Samuel 19:31 - 32
Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.
1 Kings 2:7
But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
Ezra 2:61
Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).
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2 Samuel 16:2
And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.
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2 Samuel 15:23
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 15:19
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.
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2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
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2 Samuel 18:12
But the man said to Joab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'For my sake protect the young man Absalom.
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2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.
Joshua 17:15
And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
Joshua 17:18
But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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2 Samuel 14:26
And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.
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2 Samuel 18:5
And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.
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Joshua 7:26
And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.
Joshua 8:29
And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
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2 Samuel 19:8
Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.
2 Samuel 20:1
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!
2 Samuel 20:22
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
2 Kings 8:21
Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home.
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Genesis 28:18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
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Genesis 14:17
After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
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2 Samuel 14:27
There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.
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2 Samuel 15:36
Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.
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2 Samuel 18:31
And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the Lord has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you.
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Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
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2 Samuel 19:8
Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.
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2 Samuel 13:34
But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.
2 Kings 9:17
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'
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2 Kings 9:20
Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.
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1 Kings 1:42
While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news.
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Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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2 Samuel 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 18:19
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.
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2 Samuel 18:29
And the king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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2 Samuel 18:24
Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.
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2 Samuel 19:4
The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
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2 Samuel 15:30
But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.
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2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
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Genesis 34:3
And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
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2 Samuel 18:4
The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel 18:24
Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.
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2 Samuel 8:1 - 14
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
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2 Samuel 5:20
And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, "The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
2 Samuel 8:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
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2 Samuel 15:14
Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
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2 Samuel 15:29
So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.
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2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
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2 Samuel 17:25
Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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2 Samuel 8:16
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
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Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.
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2 Samuel 16:5
When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
1 Kings 2:8
And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
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2 Samuel 9:2
Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant.
2 Samuel 9:10
And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
2 Samuel 16:1 - 4
When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
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1 Samuel 22:15
Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.
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2 Samuel 16:5 - 13
When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
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2 Samuel 16:5
When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
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Exodus 22:28
You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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2 Samuel 16:10
But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?
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1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.
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1 Kings 2:8 - 9
And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
1 Kings 2:37
For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.
1 Kings 2:46
Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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2 Samuel 9:6
And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, "Mephibosheth!" And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant.
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2 Samuel 16:17
And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?
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2 Samuel 9:3
And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.
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2 Samuel 16:3
And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'
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2 Samuel 14:17
And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!
2 Samuel 14:20
In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.
1 Samuel 29:9
And Achish answered David and said, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.
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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.
2 Samuel 9:10
And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
2 Samuel 9:13
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet.
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1 Kings 2:7
But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
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2 Samuel 17:27 - 29
When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
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Genesis 47:8
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?
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Psalms 90:10
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
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2 Samuel 15:33
David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
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1 Kings 2:7
But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
Jeremiah 41:17
And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt
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2 Samuel 14:33
Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.
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2 Samuel 19:15
So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.
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2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?
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1 Kings 11:30 - 31
Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
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Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 11:13
The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
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Deuteronomy 13:13
That certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known.
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2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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2 Samuel 20:22
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents.
2 Chronicles 10:16
And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So all Israel went to their tents.
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2 Samuel 15:16
So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
2 Samuel 16:21 - 22
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.
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2 Samuel 17:25
Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.
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2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
1 Kings 1:33
And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
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2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites.
2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
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Matthew 26:49
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him.
Mark 14:45
And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, "Rabbi!" And he kissed him.
Luke 22:47
While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him.
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1 Kings 2:5
Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.
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2 Samuel 2:23
But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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Numbers 21:16
And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water.
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2 Samuel 20:14
And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.
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2 Kings 19:32
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
Isaiah 37:33
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus says the Lord of hosts: "Cut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
Ezekiel 4:2
And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
Ezekiel 26:8
He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.
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2 Samuel 20:14
And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.
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2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly and tell David, 'Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.
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1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.
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2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord ?
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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2 Samuel 20:16
Then a wise woman called from the city, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, 'Come here, that I may speak to you.'
Ecclesiastes 9:14 - 15
There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
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1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
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2 Samuel 20:23 - 26
Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites.
2 Samuel 8:16 - 18
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
1 Kings 4:3 - 6
Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
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1 Kings 12:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 15:24
And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.
2 Samuel 19:11
And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?
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2 Samuel 23:38
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite.
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Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
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Joshua 9:3 - 17
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai.
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1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.
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1 Samuel 10:26
Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel 11:4
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.
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1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!
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1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?
1 Samuel 20:42
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel 23:18
And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
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2 Samuel 3:7
Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
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Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
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1 Samuel 18:19
But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
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Ruth 1:22
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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1 Samuel 31:10 - 13
They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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Joshua 18:28
Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim - fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.
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2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
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2 Samuel 21:18
After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.
2 Samuel 21:20
And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.
2 Samuel 21:22
These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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2 Samuel 18:3
But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.
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2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lighten...
1 Kings 11:36
Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that Davi...
1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God...
2 Kings 8:19
Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, ...
2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy the hou...
Psalms 132:17
There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I...
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2 Samuel 21:18 - 22
After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.
1 Chronicles 20:4 - 8
And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.
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1 Chronicles 11:29
Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite.
1 Chronicles 27:11
Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.
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2 Samuel 23:27
Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite.
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2 Samuel 21:16
And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.
2 Samuel 21:20
And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.
2 Samuel 21:22
These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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2 Samuel 23:24
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 17:7
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.
1 Chronicles 20:5
And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
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2 Samuel 21:16
And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.
2 Samuel 21:18
After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.
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1 Samuel 17:10
And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel 17:25 - 26
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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2 Samuel 21:20
And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.
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Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Judges 5:1
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:
1 Chronicles 16:7
Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.
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2 Samuel 22:1 - 51
And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
Psalms 18:2 - 50
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Psalms 31:3
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me.
Psalms 71:3
Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Psalms 91:2
I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
Psalms 144:2
He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
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2 Samuel 22:32
For who is God, but the Lord ? And who is a rock, except our God?
2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
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Hebrews 2:13
And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me.
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2 Samuel 22:31
This God - his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.
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Luke 1:69
And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.
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Psalms 9:9
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a s...
Psalms 59:9
O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O...
Psalms 59:16 - 17
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing a...
Psalms 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortres...
Psalms 62:6
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortres...
Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the rig...
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Psalms 14:6
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
Psalms 46:7
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalms 46:11
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalms 71:7
I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
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1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
Psalms 48:1
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain.
Psalms 96:4
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
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Psalms 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
Psalms 93:4
Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
Jonah 2:3
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.
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Psalms 116:3
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
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Psalms 116:4
Then I called on the name of the Lord : "O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!
Psalms 120:1
In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.
Jonah 2:2
Saying, "I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.
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Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
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Judges 5:4
Lord, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.
Psalms 77:18
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Psalms 97:4
His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
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Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
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2 Samuel 22:13
Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.
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Psalms 144:5
Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
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Isaiah 64:1
Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence -
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Exodus 20:21
The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
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Psalms 104:3
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind.
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2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
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Job 36:29
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
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Job 37:4
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
Psalms 29:3
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.
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Deuteronomy 32:23
'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them.
Psalms 7:13
He has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
Psalms 77:17
The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.
Psalms 144:6
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
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Exodus 15:8
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
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Psalms 144:7
Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners.
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Psalms 31:8
And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
Psalms 118:5
Out of my distress I called on the Lord ; the Lord answered me and set me free.
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2 Samuel 15:26
But if he says, 'I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.
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1 Samuel 26:23
The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord 's anointed.
1 Kings 8:32
Then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:8
The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
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Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
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Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.
Proverbs 8:32
And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.
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Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Psalms 119:102
I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
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Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
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Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
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2 Samuel 22:24
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
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Psalms 72:12 - 13
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
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Isaiah 2:11 - 12
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:17
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
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Job 29:3
When his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness.
Psalms 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Matthew 5:48
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
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2 Samuel 22:3
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
Psalms 5:12
For you bless the righteous, O Lord ; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Psalms 33:20
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.
Psalms 59:11
Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Psalms 84:9
Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
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2 Samuel 22:2
He said, "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
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2 Samuel 22:2
He said, "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
Psalms 28:8
The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Psalms 31:3 - 4
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me.
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2 Samuel 2:18
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
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Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.
Isaiah 58:14
Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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Psalms 144:1
Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.
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Proverbs 4:12
When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.
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Malachi 4:3
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 44:5
Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.
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Exodus 23:27
I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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1 Samuel 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
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2 Kings 13:7
For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
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Isaiah 10:6
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 10:5
They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.
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2 Samuel 8:1 - 14
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Isaiah 55:5
Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
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Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
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2 Samuel 22:3
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
2 Samuel 22:32
For who is God, but the Lord ? And who is a rock, except our God?
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Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 89:26
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Psalms 95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
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Psalms 144:2
He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
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2 Samuel 22:40
For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.
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Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men.
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Romans 15:9
And in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.
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Psalms 144:10
Who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.
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1 Samuel 16:12 - 13
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
Psalms 89:20
I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.
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2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
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2 Samuel 7:8 - 9
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
Psalms 78:70 - 71
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.
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2 Samuel 22:51
Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
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2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
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2 Samuel 22:2 - 3
He said, "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
2 Samuel 22:32
For who is God, but the Lord ? And who is a rock, except our God?
2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.
2 Chronicles 19:9
And he charged them: "Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:
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Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
Hosea 6:5
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
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2 Samuel 7:15 - 16
But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
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2 Samuel 23:8 - 39
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.
1 Chronicles 11:11 - 47
This is an account of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time.
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1 Chronicles 27:2 - 3
Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were 24,000.
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1 Chronicles 27:4
Dodai the Ahohite was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were 24,000.
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2 Samuel 23:28
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah.
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2 Samuel 23:33
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite.
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1 Samuel 22:1
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
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2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
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1 Samuel 22:4 - 5
And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
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1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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Leviticus 17:10
If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
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1 Chronicles 11:21
He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.
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2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites.
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Joshua 15:21
The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur.
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2 Samuel 2:18
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
1 Chronicles 27:7
Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were 24,000.
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1 Chronicles 11:27
Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite.
1 Chronicles 27:8
The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were 24,000.
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2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.
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Joshua 21:18
Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands - four cities.
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2 Samuel 21:18
After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.
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2 Samuel 23:9
And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.
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2 Kings 25:23
Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.
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2 Samuel 23:28
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah.
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Joshua 18:28
Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim - fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.
Judges 19:14
So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
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Judges 12:13
After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judges 12:15
Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
1 Chronicles 27:14
Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.
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Joshua 24:30
And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
Judges 2:9
And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
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2 Samuel 3:16
But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned.
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2 Samuel 23:11
And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
2 Samuel 10:8
And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
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2 Samuel 11:3
And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
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2 Samuel 15:12
And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
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Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
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2 Samuel 4:2
Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth ( for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin.
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2 Samuel 20:26
And Ira the Jairite was also David's priest.
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1 Chronicles 2:53
And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
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2 Samuel 11:3
And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:6
So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.
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2 Samuel 24:1 - 25
Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah.
1 Chronicles 21:1 - 28
Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
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1 Chronicles 21:1
Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
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1 Chronicles 27:23 - 24
David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
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2 Samuel 24:15
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
2 Samuel 3:10
To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
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Deuteronomy 1:11
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
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Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
Joshua 13:9
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon.
Joshua 13:16
So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
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Numbers 13:23
And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.
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Numbers 21:32
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Numbers 32:1
Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.
Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.
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Joshua 19:28
Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.
Judges 18:28
And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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Joshua 11:3
To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Judges 3:3
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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Joshua 11:3
To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Judges 3:3
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.
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1 Samuel 24:5
And afterward David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
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2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
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1 Samuel 22:5
Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
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1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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1 Chronicles 21:12
Either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
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Psalms 119:156
Great is your mercy, O Lord ; give me life according to your rules.
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1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish. Yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.
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2 Samuel 24:2
So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.
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2 Kings 19:35
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
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2 Kings 19:35
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
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Exodus 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
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Exodus 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
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Genesis 6:6
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
1 Samuel 15:11
I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
Joel 2:13 - 14
And rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
Numbers 16:50
And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.
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1 Kings 19:21
And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him.
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Deuteronomy 33:11
Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again.
Psalms 20:3
May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
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2 Samuel 21:14
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.
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