Discovery Box| (0.42) | 1Sa 28:15 |
| Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 5:8 |
| David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies 1 by going through the water tunnel.” 2 For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.” 3 |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 6:2 |
| 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. |
| (0.42) | 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.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 13:32 |
| Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said, “My lord should not say, ‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about 1 from the day that Amnon 2 humiliated his sister Tamar. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 15:2 |
| 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.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 16:8 |
| The Lord has punished you for 1 all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 17:12 |
| We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them! |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 17:20 |
| When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men 1 searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. 2 |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 18:3 |
| But the soldiers replied, 1 “You should not do this! 2 For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. 3 Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you 4 are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 19:42 |
| All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? 1 Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 20:21 |
| That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled 1 against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute 2 his head will be thrown over the wall to you!” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 21:4 |
| The Gibeonites said to him, “We 1 have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, 2 nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, 3 “What then are you asking me to do for you?” |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 1:25 |
| For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment 1 they are having a feast 2 in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ 3 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 8:35 |
| “The time will come when 1 the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people 2 sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, 3 and turn away from their sin because you punish 4 them, |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 8:48 |
| When they return to you with all their heart and being 1 in the land where they are held prisoner, 2 and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 3 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 12:28 |
| After the king had consulted with his advisers, 1 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 2 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 15:23 |
| The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 2 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 18:21 |
| Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? 1 If the Lord is the true God, 2 then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 18:36 |
| When it was time for the evening offering, 1 Elijah the prophet approached the altar 2 and prayed: “O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove 3 today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. |
