Discovery Box| (1.00) | 1Sa 30:22 |
| But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, 1 we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!” |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 31:9 |
| They cut off Saul’s 1 head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 2:4 |
| The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people 1 of Judah. David was told, 2 “The people 3 of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 2:17 |
| Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 2:27 |
| Joab replied, “As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit 1 of their brothers!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:8 |
| These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating 1 loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives 2 and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:10 |
| namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:11 |
| Ish-bosheth 1 was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:17 |
| Abner advised 1 the elders of Israel, “Previously you were wanting David to be your king. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:27 |
| When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him 1 in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. 2 |
| (1.00) | 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! |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 3:29 |
| May his blood whirl over 1 the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! 2 May the males of Joab’s house 3 never cease to have 4 someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle 5 or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!” |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 5:17 |
| When the Philistines heard that David had been designated 1 king over Israel, they all 2 went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 6:17 |
| They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place 1 in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord. |
| (1.00) | 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!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 6:22 |
| I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! 1 But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 7:4 |
| That night the Lord told Nathan, 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 7:5 |
| “Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in? |
