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- 2 Samuel 19:21
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But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.22
- 2 Samuel 19:22
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And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.23
- 2 Samuel 19:23
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So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
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Source alternate reference: 19.24
- 2 Samuel 19:25
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And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.26
- 2 Samuel 19:26
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“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
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Source alternate reference: 19.27
- 2 Samuel 19:29
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The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.30
- 2 Samuel 19:30
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And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
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Source alternate reference: 19.31
- 2 Samuel 19:33
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The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.34
- 2 Samuel 19:34
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But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
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Source alternate reference: 19.35
- 2 Samuel 19:38
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The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.39
- 2 Samuel 19:41
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Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.42
- 2 Samuel 19:43
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“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 19.44
- 2 Samuel 20:1
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Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
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- 2 Samuel 20:4
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Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
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- 2 Samuel 20:6
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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, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
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- 2 Samuel 20:9
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“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
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- 2 Samuel 20:11
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One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
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- 2 Samuel 20:16
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a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
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- 2 Samuel 20:17
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When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.
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- 2 Samuel 20:18
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Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
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- 2 Samuel 20:20
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“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
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- 2 Samuel 20:21
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That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
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- 2 Samuel 21:1
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During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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- 2 Samuel 21:2
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At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
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- 2 Samuel 21:3
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So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
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- 2 Samuel 21:4
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The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.
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- 2 Samuel 21:5
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And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
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- 2 Samuel 21:6
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let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.
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- 2 Samuel 21:16
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Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.
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- 2 Samuel 21:17
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But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”
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- 2 Samuel 22:2
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He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
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- 2 Samuel 23:3
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The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
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- 2 Samuel 23:15
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David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
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- 2 Samuel 23:17
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saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
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- 2 Samuel 24:1
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Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:2
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So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:3
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But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
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- 2 Samuel 24:10
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After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:11
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When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
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- 2 Samuel 24:12
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“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
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- 2 Samuel 24:13
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So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:14
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David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:16
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But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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- 2 Samuel 24:17
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When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:18
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And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:21
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“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:22
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Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
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- 2 Samuel 24:23
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O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:24
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“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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- 1 Kings 1:2
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So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”
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