Discovery Box| (0.60) | 2Sa 17:10 |
| If that happens even the bravest soldier – one who is lion-hearted – will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave. |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 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!” |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 17:27 |
| When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:5 |
| The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom. |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:11 |
| Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, “What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot? 1 I would have given you ten pieces of silver 2 and a commemorative belt!” 3 |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:14 |
| Joab replied, “I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree. 1 |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:17 |
| They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes. 1 |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:27 |
| The watchman said, “It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz 1 son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and he comes with good news.” |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 18:32 |
| The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you 1 be like that young man!” |
| (0.60) | 2Sa 19:5 |
| So Joab visited 1 the king at his home. He said, “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines. |
| (0.60) | 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!’” |
| (0.60) | 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.” |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 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.” |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 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 |
