The king said, “Find out whose son this boy is!”

When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,

When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

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

He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third. The Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.

You will cultivate the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master’s grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they consolidated their forces.

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

This seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all the leaders of Israel.

That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

Jonathan replied to Adonijah: “No! Our master King David has made Solomon king.

Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you by following his instructions and obeying his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,

Bathsheba replied, “That’s fine, I’ll speak to the king on your behalf.”

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.