Discovery Box| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:7 |
| Now be courageous 1 and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.” |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:12 |
| Then Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:17 |
| Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers. 1 |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:18 |
| The three sons of Zeruiah were there – Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. (Now Asahel was as quick on his feet as one of the gazelles in the field.) |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:24 |
| So Joab and Abishai chased Abner. At sunset they came to the hill of Ammah near Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:25 |
| The Benjaminites formed their ranks 1 behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 2:30 |
| Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:6 |
| As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential 1 in the house of Saul. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:20 |
| When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:26 |
| Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.) |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:28 |
| When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner! |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:31 |
| David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed 1 behind the funeral bier. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:32 |
| So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly 1 over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:34 |
| Your hands 1 were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.” All the people 2 wept over him again. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 3:37 |
| All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. 1 |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 4:1 |
| When Ish-bosheth 1 the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very disheartened, 2 and all Israel was afraid. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 4:9 |
| David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity, |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 5:9 |
| So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 5:11 |
| King Hiram of Tyre 1 sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace 2 for David. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 5:12 |
| David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. |
