For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

Rejoice

In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.

Divide

Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

Valley

And in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan.

General references

In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.