Discovery Box| (0.15) | 2Sa 2:5 |
| So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness 1 to your lord Saul by burying him. |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 9:3 |
| The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, 1 that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 12:21 |
| His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While 1 the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 13:9 |
| But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, “Get everyone out of here!” 1 So everyone left. 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 14:30 |
| So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” 1 So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s 2 portion of the field on fire. |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 15:25 |
| Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again. |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 15:27 |
| The king said to Zadok the priest, “Are you a seer? 1 Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar. 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 16:4 |
| The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 17:16 |
| Now send word quickly to David and warn him, 1 “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert 2 tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, 3 or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.” 4 |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 18:29 |
| The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 19:13 |
| Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? 1 God will punish me severely, 2 if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 24:2 |
| The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.” |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 24:22 |
| Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes 1 and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges 2 and harnesses 3 for wood. |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 2:31 |
| The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 1 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 2 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 2:44 |
| Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 1 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 2 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 8:53 |
| After all, 1 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 2 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.” |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 9:9 |
| Others will then answer, 1 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 2 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 3 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’” |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 11:2 |
| They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! 1 If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” 2 But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 3 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 11:31 |
| Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you. |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 12:14 |
| and followed 1 the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. 2 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” 3 |
