David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?”

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.

Now David achieved success in all he did, for the Lord was with him.

It was reported to Saul saying, “David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

(24:1) Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

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.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

Jeroboam then thought to himself: “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.

Asa did what the Lord approved like his ancestor David had done.

These were all the sons of David, not counting the sons of his concubines. Tamar was their sister.

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

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