Discovery Box| (0.50) | 2Sa 15:12 |
| While he was offering sacrifices, Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s adviser, 1 to come from his city, Giloh. 2 The conspiracy was gaining momentum, and the people were starting to side with Absalom. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 15:27 |
| The king said to Zadok the priest, “Are you a seer? 1 Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar. 2 |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 16:3 |
| The king asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” 1 Ziba replied to the king, “He remains in Jerusalem, 2 for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather’s 3 kingdom.’” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 16:4 |
| The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 16:10 |
| But the king said, “What do we have in common, 1 you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 17:11 |
| My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 17:13 |
| If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!” |
| (0.50) | 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. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 18:4 |
| Then the king said to them, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 18:23 |
| But he said, 1 “Whatever happens, I want to go!” So Joab 2 said to him, “Then go!” So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite. |
| (0.50) | 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. |
| (0.50) | 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.” |
| (0.50) | 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 |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 20:9 |
| Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss. |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 20:17 |
| When he approached her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” He replied, “I am.” She said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” He said, “Go ahead. I’m listening.” |
| (0.50) | 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 |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 24:3 |
| Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?” |
| (0.50) | 2Sa 24:14 |
| David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” 1 |
| (0.50) | 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.” |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 1:5 |
| Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, 1 was promoting himself, 2 boasting, 3 “I will be king!” He managed to acquire 4 chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 5 |
