The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What have you seen?” The woman replied to Saul, “I have seen one like a god coming up from the ground!”

But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

They cut off Saul’s head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. How then could I show my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.

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

The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

So the Tekoan woman went to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, “Please help me, O king!”

Absalom would then say, “If only they would make me a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement.”

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

Then David built an altar for the Lord there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the Lord accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

The king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” Nathan entered and bowed before the king with his face to the floor.

Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”

All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.

Solomon said, “If he is a loyal subject, not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, he will die.”

People from all nations came to hear Solomon’s display of wisdom; they came from all the kings of the earth who heard about his wisdom.

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!