So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived.

for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)

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

That night the Lord told Nathan,

Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

So Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he remained there for three years.

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

He said: “The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer.

The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

The Lord thundered from the sky; the sovereign One shouted loudly.

He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

Visit King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

“Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down with the sword.’

He added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

The Lord was pleased that Solomon made this request.