Discovery Box| (0.42) | 2Sa 2:22 |
| So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. 1 How then could I show 2 my face in the presence of Joab your brother?” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 2:26 |
| Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 2:32 |
| They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. 1 Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 3:12 |
| Then Abner sent messengers 1 to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement 2 with me, and I will do whatever I can 3 to cause all Israel to turn to you.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 3:19 |
| Then Abner spoke privately 1 with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately 2 of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. 3 |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 3:35 |
| Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely 1 if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 5:20 |
| So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 1 |
| (0.42) | 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. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 9:9 |
| Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 10:4 |
| So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, 1 and then sent them away. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 10:5 |
| Messengers 1 told David what had happened, 2 so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 3 until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.” |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 11:4 |
| David sent some messengers to get her. 1 She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. 2 (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) 3 Then she returned to her home. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 12:13 |
| Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven 1 your sin. You are not going to die. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 13:19 |
| Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 13:28 |
| Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk 1 and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” 2 |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 13:29 |
| So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 14:29 |
| Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come. |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 15:19 |
| Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new 1 king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. 2 |
| (0.42) | 2Sa 17:15 |
| Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders 1 of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised. |
