2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 2:7; 2 Samuel 2:11; 2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 3:17; 2 Samuel 3:21; 2 Samuel 3:23; 2 Samuel 3:24; 2 Samuel 3:31; 2 Samuel 3:32; 2 Samuel 3:33; 2 Samuel 3:36; 2 Samuel 3:37; 2 Samuel 3:38; 2 Samuel 3:39; 2 Samuel 4:8; 2 Samuel 5:2; 2 Samuel 5:3; 2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:11; 2 Samuel 5:12; 2 Samuel 5:17; 2 Samuel 6:12; 2 Samuel 6:16; 2 Samuel 6:20; 2 Samuel 7:1; 2 Samuel 7:2; 2 Samuel 7:3; 2 Samuel 7:18; 2 Samuel 8:3; 2 Samuel 8:5; 2 Samuel 8:8; 2 Samuel 8:9; 2 Samuel 8:10; 2 Samuel 8:11; 2 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 9:2; 2 Samuel 9:3; 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 9:5; 2 Samuel 9:9; 2 Samuel 9:11; 2 Samuel 9:13; 2 Samuel 10:1; 2 Samuel 10:5; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:19; 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 11:9; 2 Samuel 11:19; 2 Samuel 11:20; 2 Samuel 11:24; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 12:30; 2 Samuel 13:4; 2 Samuel 13:6; 2 Samuel 13:13; 2 Samuel 13:18; 2 Samuel 13:21; 2 Samuel 13:23; 2 Samuel 13:24; 2 Samuel 13:25; 2 Samuel 13:26; 2 Samuel 13:27; 2 Samuel 13:29; 2 Samuel 13:30; 2 Samuel 13:31; 2 Samuel 13:32; 2 Samuel 13:33; 2 Samuel 13:35; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Samuel 13:37; 2 Samuel 13:39; 2 Samuel 14:1; 2 Samuel 14:3; 2 Samuel 14:4; 2 Samuel 14:5; 2 Samuel 14:8; 2 Samuel 14:9; 2 Samuel 14:10; 2 Samuel 14:11; 2 Samuel 14:12; 2 Samuel 14:13; 2 Samuel 14:15; 2 Samuel 14:16; 2 Samuel 14:17; 2 Samuel 14:18; 2 Samuel 14:19; 2 Samuel 14:21; 2 Samuel 14:22; 2 Samuel 14:24; 2 Samuel 14:26; 2 Samuel 14:28; 2 Samuel 14:29; 2 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 14:33; 2 Samuel 15:2; 2 Samuel 15:3; 2 Samuel 15:6; 2 Samuel 15:7; 2 Samuel 15:9; 2 Samuel 15:15; 2 Samuel 15:16; 2 Samuel 15:17; 2 Samuel 15:18; 2 Samuel 15:19; 2 Samuel 15:21; 2 Samuel 15:23; 2 Samuel 15:25; 2 Samuel 15:27; 2 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 15:35; 2 Samuel 16:2; 2 Samuel 16:3; 2 Samuel 16:4; 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 16:6; 2 Samuel 16:9; 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Samuel 16:14; 2 Samuel 16:16; 2 Samuel 17:2; 2 Samuel 17:16; 2 Samuel 17:17; 2 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 18:2; 2 Samuel 18:4; 2 Samuel 18:5; 2 Samuel 18:12; 2 Samuel 18:13; 2 Samuel 18:18; 2 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 18:20; 2 Samuel 18:21; 2 Samuel 18:25; 2 Samuel 18:26; 2 Samuel 18:27; 2 Samuel 18:28; 2 Samuel 18:29; 2 Samuel 18:30; 2 Samuel 18:31; 2 Samuel 18:32; 2 Samuel 18:33; 2 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 19:2; 2 Samuel 19:4; 2 Samuel 19:5; 2 Samuel 19:8; 2 Samuel 19:9; 2 Samuel 19:10; 2 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 19:12; 2 Samuel 19:14; 2 Samuel 19:15; 2 Samuel 19:16; 2 Samuel 19:17; 2 Samuel 19:18; 2 Samuel 19:19; 2 Samuel 19:20; 2 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 19:23; 2 Samuel 19:24; 2 Samuel 19:25; 2 Samuel 19:26; 2 Samuel 19:27; 2 Samuel 19:28; 2 Samuel 19:29; 2 Samuel 19:30; 2 Samuel 19:31; 2 Samuel 19:32; 2 Samuel 19:33; 2 Samuel 19:34; 2 Samuel 19:35; 2 Samuel 19:36; 2 Samuel 19:37; 2 Samuel 19:38; 2 Samuel 19:39; 2 Samuel 19:40; 2 Samuel 19:41; 2 Samuel 19:42; 2 Samuel 19:43; 2 Samuel 20:2; 2 Samuel 20:3; 2 Samuel 20:4; 2 Samuel 20:21; 2 Samuel 20:22; 2 Samuel 21:2; 2 Samuel 21:5; 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel 21:7; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:14; 2 Samuel 22:51; 2 Samuel 24:2; 2 Samuel 24:3; 2 Samuel 24:4; 2 Samuel 24:9; 2 Samuel 24:20; 2 Samuel 24:21; 2 Samuel 24:22; 2 Samuel 24:23; 2 Samuel 24:24

2 Samuel 2:4

4 Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul."

2 Samuel 2:7

7 "Now therefore, let your hands be strong and be valiant ; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."

2 Samuel 2:11

11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 3:3

3 and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

2 Samuel 3:17

17 Now Abner had consultation with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past you were seeking for David to be king over you.

2 Samuel 3:21

21 Abner said to David, "Let me arise and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may be king over all that your soul desires." So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

2 Samuel 3:23

23 When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, they told Joab, saying, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace."

2 Samuel 3:24

24 Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why then have you sent him away and he is already gone?

2 Samuel 3:31

31 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner." And King David walked behind the bier.

2 Samuel 3:32

32 Thus they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.

2 Samuel 3:33

33 The king chanted a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

2 Samuel 3:36

36 Now all the people took note of it, and it pleased them, just as everything the king did pleased all the people.

2 Samuel 3:37

37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

2 Samuel 3:38

38 Then the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 3:39

39 "I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil."

2 Samuel 4:8

8 Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the LORD has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants."

2 Samuel 5:2

2 Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a ruler over Israel.' "

2 Samuel 5:3

3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the LORD at Hebron; then they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel 5:6

6 Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, "You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away "; thinking, "David cannot enter here."

2 Samuel 5:11

11 Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stonemasons ; and they built a house for David.

2 Samuel 5:12

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

2 Samuel 5:17

17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek out David; and when David heard of it, he went down to the stronghold.

2 Samuel 6:12

12 Now it was told King David, saying, "The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, on account of the ark of God." David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

2 Samuel 6:16

16 Then it happened as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD ; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:20

20 But when David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel distinguished himself today! He uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants' maids as one of the foolish ones shamelessly uncovers himself!"

2 Samuel 7:1

1 Now it came about when the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

2 Samuel 7:2

2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains."

2 Samuel 7:3

3 Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your mind, for the LORD is with you."

2 Samuel 7:18

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

2 Samuel 8:3

3 Then David defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to restore his rule at the River.

2 Samuel 8:5

5 When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 Arameans.

2 Samuel 8:8

8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a very large amount of bronze.

2 Samuel 8:9

9 Now when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 8:10

10 Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze.

2 Samuel 8:11

11 King David also dedicated these to the LORD , with the silver and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations which he had subdued:

2 Samuel 8:12

12 from Aram and Moab and the sons of Ammon and the Philistines and Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2 Samuel 9:2

2 Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant."

2 Samuel 9:3

3 The king said, "Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God?" And Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet."

2 Samuel 9:4

4 So the king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lo-debar."

2 Samuel 9:5

5 Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

2 Samuel 9:9

9 Then the king called Saul's servant Ziba and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson.

2 Samuel 9:11

11 Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons.

2 Samuel 9:13

13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king's table regularly. Now he was lame in both feet.

2 Samuel 10:1

1 Now it happened afterwards that the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son became king in his place.

2 Samuel 10:5

5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return."

2 Samuel 10:6

6 Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.

2 Samuel 10:19

19 When all the kings, servants of Hadadezer, saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans feared to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

2 Samuel 11:1

1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11:2

2 Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

2 Samuel 11:8

8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.

2 Samuel 11:9

9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord , and did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 11:19

19 He charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,

2 Samuel 11:20

20 and if it happens that the king's wrath rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 11:24

24 "Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."

2 Samuel 12:7

7 Nathan then said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:30

30 Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.

2 Samuel 13:4

4 He said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Then Amnon said to him, "I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom."

2 Samuel 13:6

6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."

2 Samuel 13:13

13 "As for me, where could I get rid of my reproach? And as for you, you will be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."

2 Samuel 13:18

18 Now she had on a long-sleeved garment; for in this manner the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then his attendant took her out and locked the door behind her.

2 Samuel 13:21

21 Now when King David heard of all these matters, he was very angry.

2 Samuel 13:23

23 Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

2 Samuel 13:24

24 Absalom came to the king and said, "Behold now, your servant has sheepshearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant."

2 Samuel 13:25

25 But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, we should not all go, for we will be burdensome to you." Although he urged him, he would not go, but blessed him.

2 Samuel 13:26

26 Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

2 Samuel 13:27

27 But when Absalom urged him, he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

2 Samuel 13:29

29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose and each mounted his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 13:30

30 Now it was while they were on the way that the report came to David, saying, "Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not one of them is left."

2 Samuel 13:31

31 Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

2 Samuel 13:32

32 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, responded , "Do not let my lord suppose they have put to death all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead; because by the intent of Absalom this has been determined since the day that he violated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13:33

33 "Now therefore, do not let my lord the king take the report to heart, namely, 'all the king's sons are dead,' for only Amnon is dead."

2 Samuel 13:35

35 Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; according to your servant's word, so it happened."

2 Samuel 13:36

36 As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came and lifted their voices and wept; and also the king and all his servants wept very bitterly .

2 Samuel 13:37

37 Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

2 Samuel 13:39

39 The heart of King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

2 Samuel 14:1

1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was inclined toward Absalom.

2 Samuel 14:3

3 then go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14:4

4 Now when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself and said, "Help, O king."

2 Samuel 14:5

5 The king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she answered, "Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14:8

8 Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

2 Samuel 14:9

9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "O my lord , the king, the iniquity is on me and my father's house, but the king and his throne are guiltless."

2 Samuel 14:10

10 So the king said, "Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore ."

2 Samuel 14:11

11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son." And he said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

2 Samuel 14:12

12 Then the woman said, "Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."

2 Samuel 14:13

13 The woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

2 Samuel 14:15

15 "Now the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your maidservant said, 'Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

2 Samuel 14:16

16 'For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance of God.'

2 Samuel 14:17

17 "Then your maidservant said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.' "

2 Samuel 14:18

18 Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king please speak."

2 Samuel 14:19

19 So the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman replied, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;

2 Samuel 14:21

21 Then the king said to Joab, "Behold now, I will surely do this thing; go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom."

2 Samuel 14:22

22 Joab fell on his face to the ground, prostrated himself and blessed the king; then Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, O my lord , the king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant."

2 Samuel 14:24

24 However the king said, "Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face." So Absalom turned to his own house and did not see the king's face.

2 Samuel 14:26

26 When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king's weight.

2 Samuel 14:28

28 Now Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and did not see the king's face.

2 Samuel 14:29

29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. So he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

2 Samuel 14:32

32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent for you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me still to be there."' Now therefore, let me see the king's face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death."

2 Samuel 14:33

33 So when Joab came to the king and told him, he called for Absalom. Thus he came to the king and prostrated himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:2

2 Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, "From what city are you?" And he would say, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."

2 Samuel 15:3

3 Then Absalom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king."

2 Samuel 15:6

6 In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:7

7 Now it came about at the end of forty years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to the LORD , in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:9

9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose and went to Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:15

15 Then the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."

2 Samuel 15:16

16 So the king went out and all his household with him. But the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

2 Samuel 15:17

17 The king went out and all the people with him, and they stopped at the last house.

2 Samuel 15:18

18 Now all his servants passed on beside him, all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come with him from Gath, passed on before the king.

2 Samuel 15:19

19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place.

2 Samuel 15:21

21 But Ittai answered the king and said, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be."

2 Samuel 15:23

23 While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 15:25

25 The king said to Zadok, "Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the sight of the LORD , then He will bring me back again and show me both it and His habitation.

2 Samuel 15:27

27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace and your two sons with you, your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

2 Samuel 15:34

34 "But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,' then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

2 Samuel 15:35

35 "Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So it shall be that whatever you hear from the king's house, you shall report to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

2 Samuel 16:2

2 The king said to Ziba, "Why do you have these?" And Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink."

2 Samuel 16:3

3 Then the king said, "And where is your master's son?" And Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.' "

2 Samuel 16:4

4 So the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." And Ziba said, "I prostrate myself; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord , the king!"

2 Samuel 16:5

5 When King David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out cursing continually as he came.

2 Samuel 16:6

6 He threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were at his right hand and at his left.

2 Samuel 16:9

9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and cut off his head."

2 Samuel 16:10

10 But the king said, "What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the LORD has told him, 'Curse David,' then who shall say, 'Why have you done so?' "

2 Samuel 16:14

14 The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary and he refreshed himself there.

2 Samuel 16:16

16 Now it came about when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

2 Samuel 17:2

2 "I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and terrify him, so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone,

2 Samuel 17:16

16 "Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, 'Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, or else the king and all the people who are with him will be destroyed.' "

2 Samuel 17:17

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a maidservant would go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

2 Samuel 17:21

21 It came about after they had departed that they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, "Arise and cross over the water quickly for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you."

2 Samuel 18:2

2 David sent the people out, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, "I myself will surely go out with you also."

2 Samuel 18:4

4 Then the king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands.

2 Samuel 18:5

5 The king charged Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king charged all the commanders concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:12

12 The man said to Joab, "Even if I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not put out my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Protect for me the young man Absalom!'

2 Samuel 18:13

13 "Otherwise, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king ), then you yourself would have stood aloof ."

2 Samuel 18:18

18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to preserve my name." So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.

2 Samuel 18:19

19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the king news that the LORD has freed him from the hand of his enemies."

2 Samuel 18:20

20 But Joab said to him, "You are not the man to carry news this day, but you shall carry news another day; however, you shall carry no news today because the king's son is dead."

2 Samuel 18:21

21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." So the Cushite bowed to Joab and ran.

2 Samuel 18:25

25 The watchman called and told the king. And the king said, "If he is by himself there is good news in his mouth." And he came nearer and nearer.

2 Samuel 18:26

26 Then the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, "Behold, another man running by himself." And the king said, "This one also is bringing good news."

2 Samuel 18:27

27 The watchman said, "I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." And the king said, "This is a good man and comes with good news."

2 Samuel 18:28

28 Ahimaaz called and said to the king, "All is well." And he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground. And he said, "Blessed is the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted their hands against my lord the king."

2 Samuel 18:29

29 The king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was."

2 Samuel 18:30

30 Then the king said, "Turn aside and stand here." So he turned aside and stood still.

2 Samuel 18:31

31 Behold, the Cushite arrived, and the Cushite said, "Let my lord the king receive good news, for the LORD has freed you this day from the hand of all those who rose up against you."

2 Samuel 18:32

32 Then the king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, "Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young man!"

2 Samuel 18:33

33 The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And thus he said as he walked, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

2 Samuel 19:1

1 Then it was told Joab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourns for Absalom."

2 Samuel 19:2

2 The victory that day was turned to mourning for all the people, for the people heard it said that day, "The king is grieved for his son."

2 Samuel 19:4

4 The king covered his face and cried out with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

2 Samuel 19:5

5 Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, "Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines,

2 Samuel 19:8

8 So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate," then all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled, each to his tent.

2 Samuel 19:9

9 All the people were quarreling throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:10

10 "However, Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now then, why are you silent about bringing the king back?"

2 Samuel 19:11

11 Then King David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the word of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house?

2 Samuel 19:12

12 'You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

2 Samuel 19:14

14 Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants."

2 Samuel 19:15

15 The king then returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:16

16 Then Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

2 Samuel 19:17

17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.

2 Samuel 19:18

18 Then they kept crossing the ford to bring over the king's household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:19

19 So he said to the king, "Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

2 Samuel 19:20

20 "For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

2 Samuel 19:22

22 David then said, "What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?"

2 Samuel 19:23

23 The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." Thus the king swore to him.

2 Samuel 19:24

24 Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

2 Samuel 19:25

25 It was when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"

2 Samuel 19:26

26 So he answered, "O my lord , the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself that I may ride on it and go with the king,' because your servant is lame.

2 Samuel 19:27

27 "Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.

2 Samuel 19:28

28 "For all my father's household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should complain anymore to the king?"

2 Samuel 19:29

29 So the king said to him, "Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decided, 'You and Ziba shall divide the land.' "

2 Samuel 19:30

30 Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him even take it all, since my lord the king has come safely to his own house."

2 Samuel 19:31

31 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:32

32 Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

2 Samuel 19:33

33 The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me."

2 Samuel 19:34

34 But Barzillai said to the king, "How long have I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

2 Samuel 19:35

35 "I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:36

36 "Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward?

2 Samuel 19:37

37 "Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. However, here is your servant Chimham, let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight."

2 Samuel 19:38

38 The king answered, "Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you require of me, I will do for you."

2 Samuel 19:39

39 All the people crossed over the Jordan and the king crossed too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

2 Samuel 19:40

40 Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah and also half the people of Israel accompanied the king.

2 Samuel 19:41

41 And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, "Why had our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household and all David's men with him over the Jordan?"

2 Samuel 19:42

42 Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense, or has anything been taken for us?"

2 Samuel 19:43

43 But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, therefore we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not our advice first to bring back our king?" Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:2

2 So all the men of Israel withdrew from following David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah remained steadfast to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 20:3

3 Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

2 Samuel 20:4

4 Then the king said to Amasa, "Call out the men of Judah for me within three days, and be present here yourself."

2 Samuel 20:21

21 "Such is not the case. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against King David. Only hand him over, and I will depart from the city." And the woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall."

2 Samuel 20:22

22 Then the woman wisely came to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab also returned to the king at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 21:2

2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah ).

2 Samuel 21:5

5 So they said to the king, "The man who consumed us and who planned to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel,

2 Samuel 21:6

6 let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will hang them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD ." And the king said, "I will give them."

2 Samuel 21:7

7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Saul's son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 21:8

8 So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:14

14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.

2 Samuel 22:51

51 "He is a tower of deliverance to His king, And shows lovingkindness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever ."

2 Samuel 24:2

2 The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people."

2 Samuel 24:3

3 But Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

2 Samuel 24:4

4 Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:9

9 And Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

2 Samuel 24:20

20 Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.

2 Samuel 24:21

21 Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD , that the plague may be held back from the people."

2 Samuel 24:22

22 Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

2 Samuel 24:23

23 "Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."

2 Samuel 24:24

24 However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.