Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.

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

Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her.

Now David had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

These are the final words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised up as the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, Israel’s beloved singer of songs:

David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.

David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God who commands armies was with him.

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”

Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem.

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the Lord’s instructions.

When the Philistines heard that David had been designated king over Israel, they all went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.

David was told, “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

David said, “I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

David asked him, “Where are you coming from?” He replied, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”

David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.