Saul said, &#8220;I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.&#8221; So Saul said to David, &#8220;Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the <sc>Lordsc> saying, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.&#8217;&#8221;p><t /><v id="(21:1)" /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then David<n id="2" /> got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

<p class="bodytext">So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers<n id="1" /> of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs<n id="2" /> of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

<p class="bodytext">So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, &#8220;Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him,<n id="1" /> for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

Ish-bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel. He ruled two years. However, the people<n id="1" /> of Judah followed David.

Now Saul&#8217;s son<n id="1" /> had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,

He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third.<n id="1" /> The Moabites became David&#8217;s subjects and brought tribute.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> sent Nathan<n id="1" /> to David. When he came to David,<n id="2" /> Nathan<n id="3" /> said,<n id="4" /> &#8220;There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

<p class="bodytext">So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, &#8220;Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates,<n id="1" /> and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.

So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah&#8217;s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul&#8217;s daughter Merab<n id="1" /> whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

<p class="bodytext">Benaiah son of Jehoida was a brave warrior<n id="1" /> from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab.<n id="2" /> He also went down and killed a lion in a cistern on a snowy day.

<p class="bodytext">Three years later two of Shimei&#8217;s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, &#8220;Look, your servants are in Gath.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

On the two doors made of olive wood he carved<n id="1" /> cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold.<n id="2" /> He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.<n id="3" />

He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.<n id="1" />

When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.<n id="1" />

&#8220;The Sea&#8221; stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. &#8220;The Sea&#8221; was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.<n id="1" />

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb.<n id="1" /> It was there that<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.