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- 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 19:35
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I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
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Source alternate reference: 19.36
- 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 20:3
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When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
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- 2 Samuel 20:5
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So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
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- 2 Samuel 20:8
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And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
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- 2 Samuel 20:10
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Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
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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 20:12
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But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.
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- 2 Samuel 20:13
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As soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.
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- 2 Samuel 20:15
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And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
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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 21:5
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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 21:7
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Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
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- 2 Samuel 21:8
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But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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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 21:12
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he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
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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 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 21:18
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Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, a descendant of Rapha.
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- 2 Samuel 23:8
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These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.
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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 23:16
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So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
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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 24:5
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They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.
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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 24:19
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So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
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- 1 Kings 1:8
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But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.
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- 1 Kings 1:9
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And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
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- 1 Kings 1:29
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And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
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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 1:33
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“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
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- 1 Kings 1:37
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Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”
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- 1 Kings 1:41
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Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
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- 1 Kings 1:45
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Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.
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- 1 Kings 1:48
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saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
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- 1 Kings 1:49
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At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.
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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 2:4
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and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
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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 2:9
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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 2:11
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The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
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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 2:26
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Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
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- 1 Kings 2:27
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So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
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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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- 1 Kings 2:32
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The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
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- 1 Kings 2:38
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“The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
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- 1 Kings 2:43
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So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
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