Discovery Box| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 1:10 |
| So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition.<n id="1" /> Then I took the crown which was on his head and the<n id="2" /> bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 2:26 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?” |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 3:13 |
| So David said, “Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to visit me.”<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 5:8 |
| David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies<n id="1" /> by going through the water tunnel.”<n id="2" /> For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 7:7 |
| Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say<n id="1" /> to any of the leaders<n id="2" /> whom I appointed to care for<n id="3" /> my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 13:13 |
| How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools<n id="1" /> in Israel! Just<n id="2" /> speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 14:14 |
| Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 15:14 |
| So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> “Come on!<n id="2" /> Let’s escape!<n id="3" /> Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring<n id="4" /> disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”<n id="5" /> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 17:13 |
| If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 17:17 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city. |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 17:23 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave<n id="1" /> of his father.p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 18:11 |
| Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, “What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot?<n id="1" /> I would have given you ten pieces of silver<n id="2" /> and a commemorative belt!”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 19:6 |
| 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<n id="1" /> that if<n id="2" /> Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today,<n id="3" /> it would be all right with you. |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 19:13 |
| Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood?<n id="1" /> God will punish me severely,<n id="2" /> if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 19:24 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson,<n id="1" /> came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely<n id="2" /> returned, Mephibosheth<n id="3" /> had not cared for his feet<n id="4" /> nor trimmed<n id="5" /> his mustache nor washed his clothes.p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 19:28 |
| After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather<n id="1" /> who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table!<n id="2" /> What further claim do I have to ask<n id="3" /> the king for anything?”p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 20:3 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then David went to his palace<n id="1" /> in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement.<n id="2" /> Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them.<n id="3" /> They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 20:10 |
| Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab<n id="1" /> stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s<n id="2" /> intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal.<n id="3" /> Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.p> |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 21:2 |
| <p class="bodytext">So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to<n id="1" /> them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.) |
| (0.95593414634146) | 2Sa 21:17 |
| But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”p> |
