Therefore you are great, O Lord God, for there is none like you! There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true!

My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’

The Lord rewarded me for my godly deeds; he took notice of my blameless behavior.

For I, your servant, know that I sinned, and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and remained there.

So I will give you thanks, O Lord, before the nations! I will sing praises to you.

Now be courageous and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

Now don’t let my lord the king be concerned about the report that has come saying, ‘All the king’s sons are dead.’ It is only Amnon who is dead.”

But my servant has slandered me to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems appropriate to you.

Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”

How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools in Israel! Just speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

So now assemble the rest of the army and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?”

Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!

The king said to Shimei, “You won’t die.” The king vowed an oath concerning this.

From the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. So that place is called the Field of Flints; it is in Gibeon.