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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 13:2
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Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
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- 2 Samuel 13:5
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Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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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 13:10
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Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
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- 2 Samuel 13:12
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“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
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- 2 Samuel 13:16
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“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
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- 2 Samuel 13:29
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So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
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- 2 Samuel 14:15
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Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
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- 2 Samuel 14:20
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Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
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- 2 Samuel 14:21
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Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
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- 2 Samuel 14:22
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Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:1
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Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
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- 2 Samuel 15:6
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Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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- 2 Samuel 15:26
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But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
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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 16:20
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Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give me counsel. What should we do?”
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- 2 Samuel 17:6
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So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
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- 2 Samuel 17:23
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When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
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- 2 Samuel 18:4
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“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
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- 2 Samuel 18:13
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If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”
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- 2 Samuel 19:13
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And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
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Source alternate reference: 19.14
- 2 Samuel 19:18
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and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
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Source alternate reference: 19.19
- 2 Samuel 19:24
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Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
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Source alternate reference: 19.25
- 2 Samuel 19:27
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and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
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Source alternate reference: 19.28
- 2 Samuel 19:37
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Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.38
- 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 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 21:11
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When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
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- 2 Samuel 21:14
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And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
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- 2 Samuel 22:51
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Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
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- 2 Samuel 23:10
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but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
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- 2 Samuel 23:12
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But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.
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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 23:22
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These were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who won a name along with the three mighty men.
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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 24:12
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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 24:17
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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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- 1 Kings 1:5
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At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
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- 1 Kings 1:6
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(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
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- 1 Kings 1:30
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I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
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- 1 Kings 2:3
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And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
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- 1 Kings 2:5
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Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
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- 1 Kings 2:6
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So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
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- 1 Kings 2:7
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But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
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- 1 Kings 2:9
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Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
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- 1 Kings 2:23
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Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
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- 1 Kings 2:24
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And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
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- 1 Kings 2:31
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And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
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