2 Samuel

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2 Samuel 4:3
3 because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim and have lived there as aliens to this day.

 

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2 Samuel 4:4
4 (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became crippled. His name was Mephibosheth.)

 

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2 Samuel 4:5
5 Now Recab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth, and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.

 

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2 Samuel 4:6
6 They went into the inner part of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

 

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2 Samuel 4:7
7 They had gone into the house while he was lying on the bed in his bedroom. After they stabbed and killed him, they cut off his head. Taking it with them, they traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

 

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2 Samuel 4:8
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 tried to take your life. This day the LORD has avenged my lord the king against Saul and his offspring."

 

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2 Samuel 4:9
9 David answered Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of all trouble,

 

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2 Samuel 4:10
10 when a man told me, 'Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news!

 

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2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?"

 

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2 Samuel 4:12
12 So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron.

 

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2 Samuel 5:1
1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood.

 

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2 Samuel 5:2
2 In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.'"

 

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2 Samuel 5:3
3 When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron the king made a compact with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.

 

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2 Samuel 5:4
4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

 

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2 Samuel 5:5
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

 

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2 Samuel 5:6
6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem o attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, "You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off." They thought, "David cannot get in here."

 

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2 Samuel 5:7
7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.

 

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2 Samuel 5:8
8 On that day, David said, "Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those 'lame and blind' who are David's enemies." That is why they say, "The 'blind and lame' will not enter the palace."

 

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2 Samuel 5:9
9 David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the supporting terraces inward.

 

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2 Samuel 5:10
10 And he became more and more powerful, because the LORD God Almighty was with him.