Discovery Box| (0.50) | 1Sa 28:7 |
| So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, 1 so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 6:20 |
| When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, 1 Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. 2 She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished 3 himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool 4 might do!” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 10:2 |
| David said, “I will express my loyalty 1 to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 2 to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 3 When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites, |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 10:3 |
| the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? 1 No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” 2 |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 11:1 |
| In the spring of the year, at the time when kings 1 normally conduct wars, 2 David sent out Joab with his officers 3 and the entire Israelite army. 4 They defeated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed behind in Jerusalem. 5 |
| (0.50) | 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!” |
| (0.50) | 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. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 15:14 |
| So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, 1 “Come on! 2 Let’s escape! 3 Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring 4 disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” 5 |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 15:18 |
| All his servants were leaving with him, 1 along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites – some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with 2 the king. |
| (0.50) | 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. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 19:17 |
| There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant 1 of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed 2 the Jordan within sight of the king. |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 1:2 |
| His servants advised 1 him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, 2 to take care of the king’s needs 3 and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you 4 and keep our master, the king, warm.” 5 |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 3:15 |
| Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. 1 He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, 2 and held a feast for all his servants. |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 5:1 |
| (5:15) 1 King Hiram of Tyre 2 sent messengers 3 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.) |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 20:31 |
| His advisers 1 said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. 2 Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads 3 and surrender 4 to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.” |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 5:13 |
| His servants approached and said to him, “O master, 1 if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, 2 you would have been willing to do it. 3 It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” 4 |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 6:11 |
| This made the king of Syria upset. 1 So he summoned his advisers 2 and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” 3 |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 12:21 |
| His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 1 He was buried 2 with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king. |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 17:23 |
| Finally 1 the Lord rejected Israel 2 just as he had warned he would do 3 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day. |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 23:30 |
| His servants transported his dead body 1 from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, 2 and made him king in his father’s place. |
