You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

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.

King David dedicated these things to the Lord, along with the dedicated silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations that he had subdued,

Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”

Then Amnon greatly despised her. His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and leave!”

One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

Furthermore, I am giving you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation.

Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

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.”

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.

That day he also announced a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: The altar will be split open and the ashes on it will fall to the ground.”

Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel.