In my distress I called to the Lord; I called to my God. ¹  From his heavenly temple ²  he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help. ³ 

I called ¹  to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, ²  and I was delivered from my enemies.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me. I answered, ‘Here I am!’

But Absalom said, “Call for ¹  Hushai the Arkite, and let’s hear what he has to say.” ² 

Then David called one of the soldiers ¹  and said, “Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ¹  and lock the door behind her!”

David was angry because the Lord attacked ¹  Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ²  which remains its name to this very day.

So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards.

Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, ¹  and you be present here with them too.”

a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen up! Listen up! Tell Joab, ‘Come near so that I may speak to you.’”

So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said, “If he is by himself, he brings good news.” ¹  The runner ²  came ever closer.

So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.

Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper, “There is another man running by himself.” The king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”

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?”

As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. ¹  So that place is called the Field of Flints; ²  it is in Gibeon.

So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. ¹ 

Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

Then Joab blew the trumpet ¹  and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.

David and all the men who were with him traveled ¹  to ²  Baalah ³  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁴  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, ¹  am from one of the tribes of Israel.”