Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.”

Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.

An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.

Benaiah was the leader of the thirty warriors and his division; his son was Ammizabad.

From Naphtali there were 1,000 officers, along with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears.

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.

Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, then attack. For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”

As the ark of the Lord’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.

As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.

He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.

Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. Sheshan had an Egyptian servant named Jarha.

Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.

They were allotted as cities of refuge Shechem and its pasturelands (in the hill country of Ephraim), Gezer and its pasturelands,

The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

Shebuel son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was the supervisor of the storehouses.

David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”