Discovery Box| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:13 |
| Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? 1 God will punish me severely, 2 if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’” |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:14 |
| He 1 won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man. Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return, you and all your servants as well.” |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:18 |
| They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate. Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:20 |
| For I, your servant, 1 know that I sinned, and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.” |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:26 |
| He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I 1 said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I 2 am lame. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 19:32 |
| But Barzillai was very old – eighty years old, in fact – and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich 1 man. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 20:2 |
| So all the men of Israel deserted 1 David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River 2 to Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 20:8 |
| When they were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire and had a dagger in its sheath belted to his waist. When he advanced, it fell out. 1 |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 20:19 |
| I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city 1 in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?” |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 21:1 |
| During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 1 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 2 because he murdered the Gibeonites.” |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 21:6 |
| let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute 1 them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” 2 The king replied, “I will turn them over.” |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 21:16 |
| Now Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, 1 had a spear 2 that weighed three hundred bronze shekels, 3 and he was armed with a new weapon. 4 He had said that he would kill David. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 21:20 |
| Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man 1 who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 23:17 |
| and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! 1 It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” 2 So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 23:20 |
| Benaiah son of Jehoida was a brave warrior 1 from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. 2 He also went down and killed a lion in a cistern on a snowy day. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 23:21 |
| He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. 1 The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked 2 him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. |
| (0.29) | 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.” |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Sa 24:12 |
| “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’” |
