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- 1 Chronicles 13:12
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That day David feared God and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
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- 1 Chronicles 14:10
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So David inquired of God, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will deliver them into your hand.”
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- 1 Chronicles 14:11
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So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.
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- 1 Chronicles 14:12
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There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
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- 1 Chronicles 14:14
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So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
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- 1 Chronicles 15:2
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Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”
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- 1 Chronicles 15:12
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And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
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- 1 Chronicles 15:16
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David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
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- 1 Chronicles 16:18
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‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
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- 1 Chronicles 16:31
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Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
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- 1 Chronicles 16:35
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Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
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- 1 Chronicles 16:36
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Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”
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- 1 Chronicles 17:1
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After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
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- 1 Chronicles 17:2
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And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
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- 1 Chronicles 17:3
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But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
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- 1 Chronicles 17:4
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“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.
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- 1 Chronicles 17:6
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In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
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- 1 Chronicles 17:7
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Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
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- 1 Chronicles 17:16
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Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
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- 1 Chronicles 17:24
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so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
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- 1 Chronicles 19:2
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And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
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- 1 Chronicles 19:3
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the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
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- 1 Chronicles 19:5
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When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
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- 1 Chronicles 19:12
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“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
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- 1 Chronicles 21:2
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So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:3
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But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:8
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Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:9
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And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,
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- 1 Chronicles 21:10
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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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- 1 Chronicles 21:11
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So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose
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- 1 Chronicles 21:13
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David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:15
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Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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- 1 Chronicles 21:17
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And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:18
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Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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- 1 Chronicles 21:22
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Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:23
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Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:24
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“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:27
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Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.
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- 1 Chronicles 22:1
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Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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- 1 Chronicles 22:2
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So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
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- 1 Chronicles 22:5
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And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.
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- 1 Chronicles 22:7
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“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God,
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- 1 Chronicles 22:8
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but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.
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- 1 Chronicles 23:25
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For David had said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.
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- 1 Chronicles 27:23
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David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
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- 1 Chronicles 28:2
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Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,
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- 1 Chronicles 28:3
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but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has shed blood.’
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- 1 Chronicles 28:6
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And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
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- 1 Chronicles 28:20
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David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
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- 1 Chronicles 29:1
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Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
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