2 Samuel 2 Cross References - MSTC

¹ After this David asked the LORD, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Juda? And the LORD said, "Go." And David answered, "Whither shall I go?" He answered, "Unto Hebron." ² And so David went thither with his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail, Nabal's wife, the Carmelite. ³ And the men that were with him, did David carry up also, every man with his house. And they dwelt in the towns of Hebron. ⁴ And the men of Judah came, and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. When it was told David, how the men of Jabesh in Gilead had buried Saul, ⁵ he sent messengers unto them and said unto them, "Blessed are ye unto the LORD, that ye have showed such kindness unto your lord Saul, and have buried him. ⁶ Wherefore the LORD show you mercy and truth again. And I will do you good also, because ye have done this thing. ⁷ And now let your hands stir them and play ye the men, though your master Saul be dead. And finally, understand that the house of Judah have anointed me king over them." ⁸ But Abner the son of Ner that was captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim; ⁹ and made him king over Gilead and over the Asherites, and over Jezreel; and over Ephraim and Benjamin and over all Israel. ¹⁰ And Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel — and reigned two years. But the house of Judah only followed David. ¹¹ And the time which David reigned in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. ¹² And Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul went out of Mahanaim, to Gibeon. ¹³ And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them by the Pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one part on the one side the pool and the other on the other side. ¹⁴ And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Joab answered, "Be it." ¹⁵ Then there arose and went over: twelve of Benjamin by number, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul; and twelve of the servants of David. ¹⁶ And they caught each his fellow that came against him, by the head and thrust his sword in his side, and so fell down all at once. Wherefore the place was called Helkathhazzurim which is in Gibeon. ¹⁷ And there began an exceeding cruel battle that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to the worse of the servants of David. ¹⁸ And there was three sons of Zeruiah there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel — which Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild roe - ¹⁹ and followed after Abner and turned neither to the righthand nor to the left from Abner. ²⁰ Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Art thou Asahel?" And he said, "Yea." ²¹ Then said Abner, "Turn thee either to the righthand or to the left and catch one of the young men and take thee his spoil." But Asahel would not depart from him. ²² And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn from me! Why wilt thou that I smite thee to the ground? For then how should I hold up my face before Joab thy brother?" ²³ Howbeit, he would in no wise depart. Then Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the short ribs, that the spear came out behind him: that he fell down in the same place and died there. And as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died, stood still. ²⁴ But Joab and Abishai followed Abner till the sun went down. And when they were come to the hill Ammah that lieth before Giah in the way that goeth through the wilderness of Gibeon, ²⁵ the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner on a plump and stood still on the top of a hill. ²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour without end? Knowest thou not that bitterness is wont to come in the latter end? How long shall it be, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?" ²⁷ And Joab answered, "As truly as God liveth, if thou hadst so said, then even in the morning had the people departed, each from following his brother." ²⁸ And therewith Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still and pursued after Israel no more nor fought no more. ²⁹ And Abner and his men walked all that night by the wild fields, and went over Jordan, and passed through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim. ³⁰ And Joab returned from after Abner and gathered all the people together. And there lacked, of David's servants, nineteen persons and Asahel. ³¹ But the servants of David had slain, of Benjamin and of Abner's men, three hundred and three score men. ³² And they took up Asahel and buried him in the sepulchre of his father in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and came in the dawning to Hebron.

¹ After these deeds, the word of God came unto Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not Abram, I am thy shield; and thy reward shall be exceeding great."

¹³ Then said Lea, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed." And called his name Asher.

² And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host," and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.

⁸ "Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken.

⁶ And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth,

⁴⁰ Among the children of Asher, their generation, in their kindreds and houses of their fathers — when they were summed by name, from twenty years and above, all that were apt to war -

²² and they ascended unto the south and came unto Hebron: where Ahiman was, and Sheshai and Talmai; the sons of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

²¹ And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest which shall ask counsel for him, after the manner of the light, before the LORD: And at the mouth of Eleazar shall both he and all the children of Israel with him, and all the congregation, go in and out."

¹ The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had an exceeding great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was an apt place for cattle, ² they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazar the priest and unto the lords of the congregation, saying, ³ "The land of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, ⁴ which country the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle: and we thy servants have cattle. ⁵ Wherefore," said they, "if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants to possess, and bring us not over Jordan." ⁶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of Reuben, "Shall your brethren go to war and ye tarry here? ⁷ Wherefore discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over into the land which the LORD hath given them? ⁸ This did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. ⁹ And they went up even unto the river of Eshcol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. ¹⁰ And the LORD was wroth the same time and sware, saying, ¹¹ 'None of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not continually followed me: ¹² save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed me continually.' ¹³ And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed. ¹⁴ "And behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward. ¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness: so shall ye destroy all this folk." ¹⁶ And they went near him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our sheep and for our cattle, and cities for our children: ¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabiters of the land. ¹⁸ And we will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited: every man his inheritance. ¹⁹ For we will not inherit with them on yonder side, Jordan forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side, Jordan eastward." ²⁰ And Moses said unto them, "If ye will do this thing, that ye will go all harnessed before the LORD to war, ²¹ and will go all of you in harness over Jordan before the LORD, until he have cast out his enemies before him, ²² and until the land be subdued before the LORD, then ye shall return and be without sin against the LORD and against Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. ²³ But and if ye will not do so, behold, ye sin against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. ²⁴ Build your cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and see ye do that ye have spoken." ²⁵ And the Children of Gad and of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, "Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. ²⁶ Our children, our wives, substance, and all our cattle, shall remain here in the cities of Gilead. ²⁷ But we thy servants will go all harnessed for the war unto battle before the LORD, as my lord hath said." ²⁸ And Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, ²⁹ and said unto them, "If the children of Gad and Reuben will go with you over Jordan, all prepared to fight before the LORD: then when the land is subdued unto you, give them the land of Gilead to possess. ³⁰ But and if they will not go over with you in harness, then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan." ³¹ And the children of Gad and Ruben answered, saying, "That which the LORD hath said unto thy servants we will do. ³² We will go harnessed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall be on this side the Jordan." ³³ And Moses gave unto the children of Gad and of Reuben, and unto the half tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land that belonged unto the cities thereof in the coasts of the country round about. ³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth Aroer, ³⁵ Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, ³⁶ Bethnimra and Bethharan fenced cities, and they built folds for their sheep. ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, ³⁸ Nebo, Baalmeon — and turned their names — and Sibmah also: and gave names unto the cities which they built. ³⁹ And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorites that were therein. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹ And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them the towns of Jair. ⁴² And Nobah went and took Kenath with the towns longing thereto, and called it Nobah after his own name.

⁷ Above all things, be strong and harden thyself, to observe and to do according to all the laws which Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn there from neither to the righthand, nor to the left: that thou mayest have understanding in all thou takest in hand.

³ But when the Inhabiters of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho, and Ai,

² then they feared exceedingly, for Gibeon was a great city, as any city of the kingdom, and thereto greater than Ai, and all her men were mighty.

⁴ "Come up unto me and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel."

¹² Then spake Joshua unto the LORD, the day when the LORD delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon."

⁸ For the other half, with the Reubenites and the Gadites, have received their inheritance already which Moses gave them beyond Jordan eastward: even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them: ⁹ from Aroer that lieth on the brim of the river Arnon, with the city in the midst of the river. And all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; ¹⁰ and all the cities of Sihon, king of the Amorites which reigned in Heshbon, even unto the borders of the children of Ammon; ¹¹ and Gilead, and the lands that border upon the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all mount Hermon and all Bashan unto Salecah;

¹³ And Joshua blessed Caleb the son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron to inherit. ¹⁴ And Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, unto this day: because he followed the LORD God of Israel perpetually. ¹⁵ And the name of Hebron was called in old time, Kiriatharba, which was a huge man among the Anakims. And the land ceased from war.

²⁵ Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth;

¹⁸ And their coasts were Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem;

¹¹ And they gave them Kiriatharba of the father of Anak, which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs of the same round about it. ¹² But the country that pertained to the city and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, to be his possession.

⁶ Be, therefore, exceeding strong that ye take heed to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye bow not aside therefrom, to the righthand or to the left:

¹ After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, "Who shall go up first unto the Cananites to fight against them?"

³² but the Asherites dwelt among the Cananites the inhabiters of the land, and drave them not out.

¹⁹ Then the spirit of the LORD came upon him. And he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them and spoiled them, and gave their garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And he was wroth and went up to his father's house.

⁸ Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, "Go, and return each of you unto your mother's house. The LORD deal as kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me."

²⁰ Then said Naomi unto her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he, for he ceaseth not to do the same goodness to the dead that he did to the living." And Naomi said unto her, "The man is nigh unto us, even of our next kin."

¹⁰ And then he said, "Blessed be thou in the LORD my daughter, for thou hast showed more goodness in the latter end, than at the beginning; inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether they were poor or rich.

⁹ Be strong and quit yourselves like men, ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men therefore and fight."

⁵⁰ And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of his chief captain was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

¹³ And Samuel took the horn with the ointment and anointed him in the presence of his brethren. And the spirit of the LORD came upon David, from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

⁵⁵ When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner the captain of his host, "Abner, whose son is this lad?" And Abner answered, "As truly as thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell."

⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, "Whose son art thou, thou lad?" And David answered, "The son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

² And there gathered unto him all men that were in cumbrance and in debt and troubled in their hearts, and he became a captain over them. And there were with him upon a four hundred men.

² Then David asked the LORD's advice, saying, "Shall I go and smite the Philistines?" And the LORD said unto David, "Go, and smite the Philistines and save Keilah."

⁴ Then David asked the LORD again. And the LORD answered him and said, "Up, and go to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hands."

⁹ But David had knowledge that Saul imagined mischief against him, and said therefore to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod." ¹⁰ Then said David, "O LORD God of Israel, thy servant heareth that Saul is about to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. ¹¹ Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Or will Saul come as thy servant heareth say? LORD God of Israel, tell thy servant." And the LORD said, "He will come." ¹² Then said David, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will deliver you."

²¹ Then said Saul, "Blessed are ye in the LORD: for ye have compassion on me.

¹⁹ For who shall find his enemy, and let him depart a good way? Wherefore the LORD reward thee with good, for that thou hast done unto me this day.

²⁶ And now my lord as sure as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth, the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. Furthermore, I pray God that thine enemies and they that intend to do my lord evil, may be as Nabal.

³² Then said David to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me. ³³ And blessed be thy behaviour, and blessed be thou which hath kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

⁴² And Abigail hasted and arose and gat her up upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went at her feet, and went after the messengers of David and was his wife. ⁴³ David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they were both his wives.

⁶ Then answered David, and spake to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah and brother to Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul, to the host?" Abishai said, "I will go down with thee."

¹⁴ and cried to the people and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Answerest thou not Abner?" And Abner answered, and said, "What art thou that criest to the king?"

² And David arose, and he and the six hundred men that were with him went unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. ³ And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, both he and his men, every man with his household; and David with his two wives: Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, Nabal's wife of Carmel.

¹ But yer David and his men were come to Ziklag the third day, the Amalekites had run in a running upon the south and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag and burnt it with fire,

⁵ And David's two wives were taken prisoners also: Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁷ But David took a good courage to him in the LORD his God and said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, "Bring me the ephod." And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. ⁸ And David asked the LORD, saying, "Shall I follow after this company? And shall I overtake them?" And he said to him, "Follow, for thou shalt overtake them and recover the prey." ⁹ And he went, and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came to the river Besor, where a part of them abode. ¹⁰ But David and four hundred men followed: But two hundred abode, behind being too weary to go over the river Besor.

³¹ to them of Hebron, and to all places where David and his men were wont to haunt.

⁷ When the men of Israel that were of the other side of the valley, and they of the other side Jordan, heard that the men of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left the cities, and ran away, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

¹¹ When the inhabiters of Jabesh in Gilead heard thereof what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² they arose as many as were men of war and went all night and took the carcass of Saul and the carcasses of his sons from the walls of Bet-Shean and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there,

¹² they arose as many as were men of war and went all night and took the carcass of Saul and the carcasses of his sons from the walls of Bet-Shean and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there, ¹³ and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

²³ Saul and Jonathan lovely and pleasant in their lives, were in their deaths not divided; men swifter than Eagles and stronger than Lions.

⁷ And now let your hands stir them and play ye the men, though your master Saul be dead. And finally, understand that the house of Judah have anointed me king over them." ⁸ But Abner the son of Ner that was captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim;

¹¹ And the time which David reigned in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

¹⁴ And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Joab answered, "Be it."

¹⁶ And they caught each his fellow that came against him, by the head and thrust his sword in his side, and so fell down all at once. Wherefore the place was called Helkathhazzurim which is in Gibeon. ¹⁷ And there began an exceeding cruel battle that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to the worse of the servants of David. ¹⁸ And there was three sons of Zeruiah there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel — which Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild roe -

²¹ Then said Abner, "Turn thee either to the righthand or to the left and catch one of the young men and take thee his spoil." But Asahel would not depart from him.

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour without end? Knowest thou not that bitterness is wont to come in the latter end? How long shall it be, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?" ²⁷ And Joab answered, "As truly as God liveth, if thou hadst so said, then even in the morning had the people departed, each from following his brother."

¹ There was long strife between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

⁷ And Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Wherefore liest thou with my father's concubine?" ⁸ Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head, then? That I, against Judah, do mercy unto the house of Saul thy father — and unto his brethren and kinsfolk — and have not delivered them into the hand of David? And thou layest a trespass to my charge this day for a woman's sake?

²⁷ And when Abner was come again to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate, to speak with him guilefully, and there smote him under the short ribs that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

⁵ And these sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came in the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he slept on a bed at noon. ⁶ And behold, they came into the house as though they would have bought wheat, and smote him under the short ribs and fled.

⁶ And behold, they came into the house as though they would have bought wheat, and smote him under the short ribs and fled.

¹ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and said, "See, we are thy bones and thy flesh.

¹ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and said, "See, we are thy bones and thy flesh. ² And thereto in time past when Saul was king over us, thou leddest Israel in and out. And the LORD hath said to thee, 'Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.'" ³ And so all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron. And king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel.

³ And so all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron. And king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel. ⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. ⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. ⁶ Then went the king and his men to Jerusalem, unto the Jebusites the inhabiters of the land. And they said unto David, "Except thou take away the blind and the lame thou shalt not come in hither" — meaning thereby that David should not have come in thither.

¹⁷ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, they came all up to seek David. And as soon as David heard of it, he gat him to a hold.

¹⁹ And David asked of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go to the Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into my hands?" And the LORD said unto David, "Go, for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hands."

²³ And David asked the LORD, and he said, "Go not. But compass them on the back side and come down upon them from the pear trees.

¹⁶ And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.

³ Then said the king, "Remaineth there yet any man of the kindred of Saul, whom I may show the mercy of God upon?" And Ziba said unto the king, "Jonathan hath yet a son which is lame on both feet."

⁷ And David said, "Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan's sake and will restore thee all the fields of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat meat on mine own table always."

² Then said David, "I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me." And thereupon David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants over the death of his father. Now when David's servants were come into the land of the children of Ammon,

¹² Quite thee like a man, and let us fight lustily for our people and for the cities of our God. And the LORD do what seemeth best in his eyes."

²⁵ Then said David unto the messenger, "Thus wise say unto Joab, 'Let not that thing trouble thee. For the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city and destroy it, and see that thou courage, Joab."

⁷ And at forty years' end Absalom said unto the king, "Let me go, I pray thee, to Hebron; and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the LORD.

²⁰ Thou camest but yesterday, and should I unquiet thee today to go with us? I will go whither I go. But return thou and carry again thy brethren. Mercy and truth be with thee."

¹⁴ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said that the counsel of Hushai the Archite was better than the counsel of Ahithophel — For it was even the LORD's determination to destroy the counsel of Ahithophel, which was good, that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

²⁶ And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. ²⁷ And when David was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash out of Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel out of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite out of Rogelim,

¹¹ And king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak unto the elders of Judah and say, 'Why should ye be the last that should bring again the king to his house, seeing that such tidings is come from all Israel unto the king, even to his house?

⁴² And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "For the king is near of kin to us: wherefore be ye angry for that matter? Think ye that we eat of the king's cost, or that the king giveth us any gifts?"

¹⁰ And Amasa took no heed to the knife that was in Joab's hand, with which Joab smote him in the short ribs, and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him but one stroke, and he died. And then Joab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹² And Amasa lay wallowing in blood in the midst of the way. And there was a man that saw all the people stand still. And when he saw that all that came by him stood still, he rolled Amasa out of the way into the field and cast a cloth upon him. ¹³ And as soon as he was tumbled out of the way, all the people went after Joab to follow after Sheba the son of Bichri.

²³ And Joab was over all the host of Israel. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites.

⁷ And he communed with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped Adonijah.

¹¹ And the days which David reigned upon Israel were forty years: seven years in Hebron, and thirty and three years in Jerusalem.

²⁸ Then tidings came to Joab — for Joab had turned after Adonijah, but not after Absalom — whereupon he fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD and caught handfast on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And it was told king Solomon how that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD and stood by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada saying, "Go and smite him." ³⁰ And when Benaiah was come to the tabernacle of the LORD he said unto him, "Thus sayeth the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "Nay: But I will die even here." And Benaiah brought the king word, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me." ³¹ And the king said, "Do even as he hath said: smite him and bury him, and take away the blood which Joab shed, causeless, from me and from the house of my father. ³² And the LORD bring his blood upon his own head, for he smote two men righteouser and better than he, and slew them with the sword; my father unwitting: even Abner the son of Ner captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether captain of the host of Judah. ³³ And their blood return upon the head of Joab and on the head of his seed forever. And prosperity be unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his seat, of the LORD forever." ³⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and smote him and slew him and buried him in his own house in the wilderness. ³⁵ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host, and put Zadok the priest in the room of Abiathar.

¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, "Tell him, 'Let not him that putteth on his harness boast himself, as he putteth it off.'"

¹⁰ Because thou hast beaten the Edomites, therefore thine heart riseth. Be glorious: but tarry at home. For what needest thou to provoke to mischief — that thou shouldest be overthrown and Judah with thee?" ¹¹ But Amaziah would not hear. And so Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah saw either other at Bethshemesh in Judah. ¹² And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

² And he did that seemed right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and bowed neither to the righthand nor to the left.

¹³ And Jesse begat his eldest son Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, ¹⁴ Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh - ¹⁶ Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab and Asahel, three.

¹⁶ Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab and Asahel, three.

⁴ These six were born him in Hebron where he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty three years.

³³ And Ner begat Kisk, and Kish, Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.

³⁹ And Ner begat Kish, and Kish, Saul. And Saul begat Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.

³ And when all the elders of Israel were come to the king to Hebron, David made a covenant with them there before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Samuel.

⁶ Then said David, "Whosoever smite the Jebusites first, shall be the principal captain and a lord." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was therefore the chief captain.

²⁶ And these were the best men of war of the Host: Asahel the brother of Joab and Elhanan the son of Dodo out of Bethlehem.

¹ And these following came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close for fear of Saul the son of Kish: and they were of the men that succored the battle, ² weaponed with bows, and could handle stones, arrows and bow as well with the left hand as with the right, and were of Saul's brethren, even of the tribe of Benjamin. ³ The chiefest were Ahiezer and Joash the sons of Shemaah a Gibeonite, and Jeziel a Pelite, the sons of Azmaveth; Berachah and Jehu of Anathoth; ⁴ and Ishmaiah a Gibeonite as mighty as any of thirty and more mighty too; and Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan and Jozabad of Gedor; ⁵ Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah and Shephatiah, Haruphites; ⁶ Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, Jashobeam of Korah; ⁷ And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. ⁸ And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David, when he kept a hold in the wilderness, men of might and men apt for war and could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were thereto as swift as the roes of the mountains:

⁷ and gave for the service of the house of God, five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand pieces of gold coins, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

²⁷ And the space he reigned over Israel was forty years: seven years in Hebron and thirty three years in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.

¹ Jehoshaphat laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his room:

² "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also.

² "How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

² "As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

² O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

³³ He maketh my feet like hart's feet, and setteth me up on high. {TYNDALE: And maketh my feet as swift as a hind's, and setteth me fast upon my high hold.}

⁴ Show me thy ways, O LORD, and teach me thy paths. ⁵ Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me. For thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

⁴ One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.

³ He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproof of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and truth.

⁸ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver.

¹⁵ For ye are the blessed of the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

⁸ O let me hear thy loving-kindness betimes in the morning; for in thee is my trust. Show thou me the way that I should walk in; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

¹⁰ He hath no pleasure in the strength of a horse, neither delighteth he in any man's legs. ¹¹ But the LORD's delight is in them that fear him, and put their trust in his mercy.

⁵ Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

²⁷ Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.

²³ A fool doth wickedly and maketh but a sport of it; nevertheless it is wisdom for a man to beware of such.

²² They that imagine wickedness, shall be disappointed; but they that muse upon good things, unto such shall happen mercy and faithfulness.

¹ A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.

¹⁴ He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.

¹⁸ Through counsel the things that men devise go forward; and with discretion ought wars to be taken in hand.

²⁹ Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

⁸ Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.

¹⁸ Like as one shooteth deadly arrows and darts out of a privy place, even so doth a dissembler with his neighbour. ¹⁹ And then sayeth he, "I did it but in sport!"

¹ He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help.

¹⁰ The thing that hath been is named already, and known - that it is man himself: neither may he go to law with him that is mightier than he.

¹¹ So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.

¹⁷ until the day break, and till the shadows be gone. Come again privily, O my beloved, like as a Roe or a young hart unto the mountains.

¹⁴ O get thee away, my love, as a roe or a young hart unto the sweet smelling mountains.

²⁰ But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.

⁷ And thou thoughtest thus, "I shall be lady forever." And beside all that, thou hast not regarded these things, neither cast, what should come after.

³⁰ It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.

²¹ How long shall I see the tokens of war, and hear the noise of the trumpets?

¹² The destroyers come over the heath every way, for the sword of the LORD shall consume from the one end of the land to the other, and no flesh shall have rest.

¹² they took their companions, and went out for to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the waters of Rabim in Gibeon.

¹⁰ So shall this day be unto the LORD God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the LORD God of Hosts shall have a slain offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates.

¹⁴ "Preach throughout the land of Egypt, and cause it be proclaimed at Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes, and say: Stand still, make thee ready, for the sword shall consume thee round about.

³⁷ Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will yet once be found again of the house of Israel, and do this for them: I shall increase them as a flock of men.

⁶ Therefore shall the sword begin in their cities, the store that they have laid up shall be destroyed and eaten up: and that because of their own imaginations.

¹⁴ so that the swift shall not escape, neither the strong be able to do anything: no, the giant shall not save his own life.

¹⁹ The LORD God is my strength, he shall make my feet as the feet of harts: and he which giveth the victory, shall bring me to my high places, singing upon my psalms.

⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which do you wrong and persecute you;

¹⁶ "Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.

³¹ Or what king goeth to make battle against another king, and sitteth not down first, and casteth in his mind, whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand, ³² or else while the other is yet a great way off, he will send ambassadors, and desire peace.

²⁸ Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temptations. ²⁹ And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father hath appointed to me:

²⁶ And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye one another?'

¹³ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, and be strong.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: ¹⁷ but when he was at Rome he sought me out very diligently, and found me. ¹⁸ The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy with the Lord at that day. And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well.

¹⁸ If he have hurt thee or oweth thee ought, that lay to my charge. ¹⁹ I, Paul, have written it with mine own hand. I will recompense it. So that I do not say to thee how that thou owest unto me even thine own self.