God in 2 Samuel

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1. 1:12

   They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

2. 1:14

   So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

3. 1:16

   For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”

4. 2:1

   Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.

5. 2:5

   So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead to tell them, “The LORD bless you, because you showed this kindness to Saul your lord when you buried him.

6. 2:6

   Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.

7. 2:27

   “As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”

8. 3:9

   May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

9. 3:18

   Now take action, because the LORD has said to David, ‘Through My servant David I will save My people Israel from the hands of the Philistines and of all their enemies.’”

10. 3:28

    Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

11. 3:35

    Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

12. 3:39

    And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”

13. 4:8

    They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

14. 4:9

    But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

15. 5:2

    Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

16. 5:3

    So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.

17. 5:10

    And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.

18. 5:12

    And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

19. 5:19

    So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go up,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

20. 5:20

    So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.

21. 5:23

    So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

22. 5:24

    As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

23. 5:25

    So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

24. 6:2

    And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

25. 6:3

    They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

26. 6:4

    bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

27. 6:5

    David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

28. 6:6

    When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

29. 6:7

    And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

30. 6:8

    Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

31. 6:9

    That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

32. 6:10

    So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

33. 6:11

    Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.

34. 6:12

    Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

35. 6:13

    When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

36. 6:14

    And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

37. 6:15

    while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram’s horn.

38. 6:16

    As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

39. 6:17

    So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

40. 6:18

    When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.

41. 6:21

    But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

42. 7:1

    After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

43. 7:2

    he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

44. 7:3

    And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”

45. 7:4

    But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

46. 7:5

    “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

47. 7:8

    Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

48. 7:11

    and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.

49. 7:18

    Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

50. 7:19

    And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?

51. 7:20

    What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.

52. 7:22

    How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

53. 7:23

    And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

54. 7:24

    For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

55. 7:25

    And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

56. 7:26

    so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

57. 7:27

    For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.

58. 7:28

    And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

59. 7:29

    Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”

60. 8:6

    Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

61. 8:11

    and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—

62. 8:14

    He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

63. 9:3

    So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”

64. 10:12

    Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”

65. 11:27

    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

66. 12:1

    Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

67. 12:5

    David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

68. 12:7

    Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

69. 12:9

    Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

70. 12:11

    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

71. 12:13

    Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

72. 12:14

    Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

73. 12:15

    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

74. 12:16

    David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

75. 12:20

    Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

76. 12:22

    David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

77. 12:24

    Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

78. 12:25

    and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

79. 14:11

    “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

80. 14:13

    The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

81. 14:14

    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

82. 14:16

    For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

83. 14:17

    And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

84. 14:20

    Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

85. 15:7

    After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

86. 15:8

    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

87. 15:21

    But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”

88. 15:24

    Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.

89. 15:25

    Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.

90. 15:29

    So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

91. 15:31

    Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

92. 15:32

    When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.

93. 16:8

    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

94. 16:10

    But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”

95. 16:11

    Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

96. 16:12

    Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

97. 16:16

    And David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

98. 16:18

    “Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by this people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.

99. 16:23

    Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.

100. 17:14

     Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

101. 18:19

     Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”

102. 18:28

     Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”

103. 18:31

     Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”

104. 18:33

     The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

105. 19:7

     Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

106. 19:13

     And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

107. 19:21

     But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”

108. 19:27

     and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

109. 20:19

     I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?”

110. 21:1

     During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

111. 21:3

     So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

112. 21:6

     let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.

113. 21:7

     Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

114. 21:9

     And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

115. 21:14

     And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

116. 22:1

     And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

117. 22:2

     He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

118. 22:3

     My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

119. 22:4

     I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

120. 22:7

     In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

121. 22:14

     The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.

122. 22:16

     The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

123. 22:19

     They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

124. 22:21

     The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

125. 22:22

     For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

126. 22:25

     So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

127. 22:29

     For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

128. 22:30

     For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

129. 22:31

     As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

130. 22:32

     For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

131. 22:33

     God is my strong fortress, and He makes my way clear.

132. 22:42

     They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

133. 22:47

     The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

134. 22:48

     the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

135. 22:50

     Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

136. 23:1

     These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:

137. 23:2

     The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.

138. 23:3

     The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,

139. 23:5

     Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

140. 23:10

     but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

141. 23:12

     But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.

142. 23:16

     So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

143. 23:17

     saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

144. 24:1

     Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

145. 24:3

     But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

146. 24:10

     After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

147. 24:11

     When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

148. 24:12

     “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

149. 24:14

     David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

150. 24:15

     So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

151. 24:16

     But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

152. 24:17

     When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”

153. 24:18

     And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

154. 24:19

     So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

155. 24:21

     “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

156. 24:23

     O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

157. 24:24

     “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

158. 24:25

     And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.