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- 2 Samuel 11:7
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When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
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- 2 Samuel 11:8
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Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
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- 2 Samuel 11:10
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And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
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- 2 Samuel 11:11
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Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
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- 2 Samuel 11:12
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“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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- 2 Samuel 11:13
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Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
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- 2 Samuel 11:14
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The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
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- 2 Samuel 11:17
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And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
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- 2 Samuel 11:18
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Joab sent to David a full account of the battle
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- 2 Samuel 11:22
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So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
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- 2 Samuel 11:23
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The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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- 2 Samuel 11:25
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Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
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- 2 Samuel 11:27
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And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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- 2 Samuel 12:1
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Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
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- 2 Samuel 12:5
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David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
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- 2 Samuel 12:7
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Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
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- 2 Samuel 12:13
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Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
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- 2 Samuel 12:15
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After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
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- 2 Samuel 12:16
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David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
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- 2 Samuel 12:18
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On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
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- 2 Samuel 12:19
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When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
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- 2 Samuel 12:20
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Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
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- 2 Samuel 12:24
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Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
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- 2 Samuel 12:27
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Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
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- 2 Samuel 12:29
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So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.
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- 2 Samuel 12:30
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Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
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- 2 Samuel 12:31
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David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Samuel 13:1
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After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
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- 2 Samuel 13:3
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Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
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- 2 Samuel 13:7
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Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
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- 2 Samuel 13:21
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When King David heard all this, he was furious.
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- 2 Samuel 13:30
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While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”
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- 2 Samuel 13:32
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But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
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- 2 Samuel 13:39
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And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
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- 2 Samuel 15:12
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While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.
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- 2 Samuel 15:13
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Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:14
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And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:22
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“March on then,” said David to Ittai. So Ittai the Gittite marched past with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.
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- 2 Samuel 15:30
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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
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- 2 Samuel 15:31
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Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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- 2 Samuel 15:32
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When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
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- 2 Samuel 15:33
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David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
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- 2 Samuel 15:37
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So David’s friend Hushai arrived in Jerusalem just as Absalom was entering the city.
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- 2 Samuel 16:1
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When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
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- 2 Samuel 16:5
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As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.
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- 2 Samuel 16:6
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He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.
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- 2 Samuel 16:10
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But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
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- 2 Samuel 16:11
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Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
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- 2 Samuel 16:13
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So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.
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- 2 Samuel 16:16
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And David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
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