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- 2 Samuel 6:22
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and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
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- 2 Samuel 7:3
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And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
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- 2 Samuel 7:7
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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 Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
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- 2 Samuel 7:9
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I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
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- 2 Samuel 7:10
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And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
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- 2 Samuel 7:11
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and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.
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- 2 Samuel 7:12
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And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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- 2 Samuel 7:14
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I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
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- 2 Samuel 7:15
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But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
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- 2 Samuel 7:22
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How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
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- 2 Samuel 7:23
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And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
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- 2 Samuel 7:25
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And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,
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- 2 Samuel 8:6
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Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
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- 2 Samuel 8:7
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And David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Samuel 8:10
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he sent his son Joram to greet King David and bless him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer, who had been at war with Toi. Joram brought with him articles of silver and gold and bronze,
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- 2 Samuel 8:11
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and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—
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- 2 Samuel 8:14
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He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
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- 2 Samuel 9:1
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Then David asked, “Is there anyone left from the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?”
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- 2 Samuel 9:8
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Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
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- 2 Samuel 9:9
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Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
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- 2 Samuel 9:11
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And Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all that my lord the king has commanded.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s own sons.
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- 2 Samuel 10:2
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And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
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- 2 Samuel 10:13
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So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.
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- 2 Samuel 10:16
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Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
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- 2 Samuel 11:16
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So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
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- 2 Samuel 11:20
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if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
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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 11:27
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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 12:3
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but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
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- 2 Samuel 12:6
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Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
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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 12:21
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“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
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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 13:5
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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 13:10
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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 13:15
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Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
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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 13:19
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And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
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- 2 Samuel 13:22
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And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.
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- 2 Samuel 13:23
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Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
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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 14:7
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Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
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- 2 Samuel 14:14
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For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
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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 14:18
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Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
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- 2 Samuel 14:19
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So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
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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 14:22
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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 14:26
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And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
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- 2 Samuel 14:31
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Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
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