Discovery Box| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 20:22 |
| Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab 1 blew the trumpet, and his men 2 dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. 3 Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 21:2 |
| So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 1 them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.) |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 21:7 |
| The king had mercy on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, in light of the Lord’s oath that had been taken between David and Jonathan son of Saul. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 21:8 |
| So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab 1 whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 21:14 |
| They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 1 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 2 for the land. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 24:2 |
| The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.” |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 24:9 |
| Joab reported the number of warriors 1 to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers. |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 24:21 |
| Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.” |
| (0.35) | 2Sa 24:24 |
| But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. 1 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 1:33 |
| and he 1 told them, “Take your master’s 2 servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. 3 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 1:38 |
| So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 1 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 1:39 |
| Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 1 from the tent and poured it on 2 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:20 |
| She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. 1 Please don’t refuse me.” 2 He said, 3 “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:22 |
| King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 1 Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:29 |
| When King Solomon heard 1 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 2 “Go, strike him down.” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:31 |
| The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 1 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:39 |
| Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:42 |
| the king summoned 1 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 2 that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 3 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 2:44 |
| Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 1 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 2 |
