TBESH · H9004
/כ · k · like/as
Prefix kaph: like, as
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/כ (k) means “like/as” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: k STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/כ · k · like/as
Prefix kaph: like, as
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Page 17 of 49. 2419 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Read word by wordJoab 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.”
Read word by wordNow there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.
Read word by wordAbsalom 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.
Read word by wordThen Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”
Read word by wordThe king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
Read word by wordBut if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
Read word by wordAnd David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
Read word by wordFurthermore, whom should I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”
Read word by wordNow in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
Read word by wordand bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”
Read word by wordSo Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
Read word by wordHe continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
Read word by wordSurely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
Read word by wordThen even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
Read word by wordInstead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
Read word by wordThen we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
Read word by wordSo Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “This is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have advised.
Read word by wordWhen David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
Read word by wordThe watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
Read word by wordThe king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like that young man.”
Read word by wordSo they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.4
So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.15
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.28
But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.35
Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.37
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.
Read word by wordAs soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.
Read word by wordOnce again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Read word by wordThe LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
Read word by wordSo the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
Read word by wordHe makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
Read word by wordI ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
Read word by wordis like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
Read word by wordBut the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
Read word by wordBut 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?”
Read word by wordSo David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
Read word by wordOtherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
Read word by wordI 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.”
Read word by wordJust 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.”
Read word by wordIt was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.’”
Read word by wordAnd 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,
Read word by wordSo act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
Read word by wordAnd 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!”
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordSolomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
Read word by wordbehold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been another like you, nor will there ever be.
Read word by wordSo if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
Read word by wordThe people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
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