But he would give a double ¹  portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. ²  Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children. ³ 

He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants.

Then Samuel brought ¹  Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.

The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. ¹  The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

On the third day ¹  you should go down quickly ²  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ³  Stay near the stone Ezel.

So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ¹  David and his men in the region of ²  the rocks of the mountain goats. ³ 

I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place ¹  in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.

So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. ¹  She gave birth to a son, and David ²  named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child ³ 

and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah ¹  for the Lord’s sake.

When someone approached to bow before him, Absalom ¹  would extend his hand and embrace him and kiss him.

He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors ¹  did not ally themselves ²  with Adonijah.

Solomon accumulated ¹  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ² 

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt ¹  and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; ¹  he tucked his robe into his belt ²  and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure ¹  that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet. ² 

The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary. ¹ 

David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem ¹  to bring the ark of the Lord up to the place he had prepared for it.