Discovery Box| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 3:12 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Abner sent messengers<n id="1" /> to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement<n id="2" /> with me, and I will do whatever I can<n id="3" /> to cause all Israel to turn to you.” |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 3:18 |
| Act now! For the <sc>Lordsc> has said to David, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save<n id="1" /> my people Israel from<n id="2" /> the Philistines and from all their enemies.’”p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 3:19 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Abner spoke privately<n id="1" /> with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately<n id="2" /> of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 3:35 |
| Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely<n id="1" /> if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 5:3 |
| <p class="bodytext">When all the leaders<n id="1" /> of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them<n id="2" /> in Hebron before the <sc>Lordsc>. They designated<n id="3" /> David as king over Israel. |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 5:19 |
| So David asked the <sc>Lordsc>, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The <sc>Lordsc> said to David, “March up, for I will indeed<n id="1" /> hand the Philistines over to you.”p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 5:20 |
| <p class="bodytext">So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The <sc>Lordsc> has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 6:2 |
| David and all the men who were with him traveled<n id="1" /> to<n id="2" /> Baalah<n id="3" /> in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name<n id="4" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it. |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 6:16 |
| <p class="bodytext">As the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the <sc>Lordsc>, she despised him.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 6:20 |
| When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,<n id="1" /> Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.<n id="2" /> She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished<n id="3" /> himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool<n id="4" /> might do!”p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 6:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">David replied to Michal, “It was before the <sc>Lordsc>! I was celebrating before the <sc>Lord,sc> who chose me over your father and his entire family<n id="1" /> and appointed me as leader over the <sc>Lordsc>’s people Israel. |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 7:29 |
| Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty<n id="1" /> so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 8:4 |
| David seized from him 1,700 charioteers<n id="1" /> and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 8:14 |
| He placed garrisons throughout Edom,<n id="1" /> and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The <sc>Lordsc> protected David wherever he campaigned. |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 9:7 |
| <p class="bodytext">David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 9:10 |
| You will cultivate<n id="1" /> the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce<n id="2" /> and it will be<n id="3" /> food for your master’s grandson to eat.<n id="4" /> But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 9:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest<n id="1" /> at David’s table,<n id="2" /> just as though he were one of the king’s sons.p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 10:18 |
| The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers.<n id="1" /> He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there. |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 10:19 |
| When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer<n id="1" /> saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel.<n id="2" /> The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.p> |
| (0.28373315923567) | 2Sa 11:20 |
| if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall? |
