Discovery Box| (0.33) | 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!” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 16:10 |
| But the king said, “What do we have in common, 1 you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 16:11 |
| Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, 1 is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 16:21 |
| Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Have sex with 1 your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” 2 |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 17:6 |
| So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 17:15 |
| Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders 1 of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 17:21 |
| After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan 1 climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, “Get up and cross the stream 2 quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you.” 3 |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 17:23 |
| When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 1 of his father. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 18:2 |
| David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 18:17 |
| They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes. 1 |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 18:18 |
| Prior to this 1 Absalom had set up a monument 2 and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 18:24 |
| Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 1 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 18:27 |
| The watchman said, “It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz 1 son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and he comes with good news.” |
| (0.33) | 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.” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 19:18 |
| They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate. Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 19:19 |
| He said to the king, “Don’t think badly of me, my lord, and don’t recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king, left 1 Jerusalem! 2 Please don’t call it to mind! |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 19:26 |
| He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I 1 said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I 2 am lame. |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 19:28 |
| After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather 1 who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! 2 What further claim do I have to ask 3 the king for anything?” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 19:37 |
| Let me 1 return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.” |
| (0.33) | 2Sa 20:3 |
| Then David went to his palace 1 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 2 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 3 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows. |
