When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

<p class="bodytext">So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.

<p class="bodytext">So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

<p class="bodytext">Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David&#8217;s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very crafty man.

<p class="bodytext">Now King David heard about all these things and was very angry.<n id="1" />

The king longed<n id="1" /> to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then a messenger came to David and reported, &#8220;The men of Israel are loyal to Absalom!&#8221;<n id="1" />

David said to him, &#8220;If you leave<n id="1" /> with me you will be a burden to me.

<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.

<t /><p class="bodytext">David assembled the army that was with him. He appointed leaders of thousands and leaders of hundreds.

When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul&#8217;s concubine, had done,

When he taunted Israel, Jonathan, the son of David&#8217;s brother Shimeah, killed him.

These four were the descendants of Rapha who lived in Gath; they were killed<n id="1" /> by David and his soldiers.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He gives his chosen king magnificent victories;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he is faithful to his chosen ruler,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to David and to his descendants forever!&#8221;p>

David was thirsty and said, &#8220;How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!&#8221;

He received honor from<n id="1" /> the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Afterward David inquired of the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> told him, &#8220;Go up.&#8221; David asked, &#8220;Where should I go?&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;To Hebron.&#8221;

The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people<n id="1" /> of Judah.p> <p class="bodytext">David was told,<n id="2" /> &#8220;The people<n id="3" /> of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.&#8221;

Act now! For the <sc>Lordsc> has said to David, &#8216;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.&#8217;&#8221;p>