Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:12 |
| Then the woman said, “Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter.” He replied, “Tell me.” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:13 |
| The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:14 |
| Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:15 |
| I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. 1 But your servant said, ‘I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant 2 asks. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:16 |
| Yes! 1 The king may 2 listen and deliver his female servant 3 from the hand of the man who seeks to remove 4 both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ 5 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:17 |
| So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:19 |
| The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” 1 The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:32 |
| Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent a message to you saying, ‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message: 1 “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 14:33 |
| So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king 1 summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom 2 bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:8 |
| For I made this vow 1 when I was living in Geshur in Aram: ‘If the Lord really does allow me to return to Jerusalem, 2 I will serve the Lord.’” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:28 |
| Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you 1 reaches me.” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:31 |
| Now David 1 had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, 2 “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:32 |
| When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:35 |
| Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. 1 Everything you hear in the king’s palace 2 you must tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 15:36 |
| Furthermore, their two sons are there with them, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. You must send them to me with any information you hear.” 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 16:7 |
| As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man! 1 |
| (1.00) | 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!” |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 16:18 |
| Hushai replied to Absalom, “No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 16:23 |
| In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. 1 Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel. 2 |
