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And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, Here am I.

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!Kings Summoning

And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

And her husband went with her, weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return. And he returned.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenBarrenness

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutAdulteress ExamplesImmorality, Examples Of SexualMinistry, Qualifications ForSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex ExamplesPurifying OneselfIndividuals going home

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of Others

And when the mourning was past, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterDavid's Wives

And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

Verse ConceptsOne FleshComfort, Of FriendsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenThe Promise Of A Baby

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In WomenNamed SistersMen And Women Who LovedBeautiful Women

And Amnon was so afflicted, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

Verse ConceptsInfatuationSick IndividualsHard Tasks

And Jonadab said to him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say to him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me food, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPretendingSick Individuals

So Amnon lay down and made himself sick: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make for me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitCakesPretendingSick Individuals

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

Verse ConceptsDoughBaking BreadKneading Dough

And Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from thy hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrivate Rooms

And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.

Verse ConceptsGraspingSexual Union Intended

Howbeit, he would not hearken to her voice: but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofRape

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone.

Verse ConceptsHatredSuffering, Causes OfDefraudingMen And Women Who LovedHating Individualsheartbroken

And she said to him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst to me. But he would not hearken to her.

Then he called his servant that ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

And she had a garment of divers colors upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins appareled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

And Absalom her brother said to her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentLoneliness And Depression

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and brought thence a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before David

And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

And behold, the whole family hath risen against thy handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Metaphorical UseNo SurvivorsHanding Over PeopleExtinguishingNames Blotted OutDeath Penalty For Killing

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

Verse ConceptsPaying Attention To People

And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingCutting HairLong HairWeights Of Other ThingsTime Of YearHairweight

And Absalom said to him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear thee.

Verse ConceptsClaims

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfChildren, Bad KidsRebellion, Against Human AuthoritySecrecyTrumpetUnfaithfulness, To PeopleWicked Children, Examples OfTrumpets For CelebrationSpying

But if he shall thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.

Verse ConceptsResignationNot Pleasing GodGod's Will Be Done

And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that whatever thing thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

Verse ConceptsGiving Information

Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send to me every thing that ye can hear.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred by thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

Verse ConceptsNosesOffenceOne FleshSmellsPeople Being Hated

Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeBearsBereavementFierce MenReady For War

And the king said to him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To Rest

I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesKnowledge Of Good And EvilVoicesNatural DeafnessSingers

Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble to me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

Verse ConceptsAssembling Israel

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, to Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

Verse ConceptsDuplicating Words

And when he was come near to her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said to him, Hear the words of thy handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

Verse ConceptsIs It Really?

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldRainProtection Day And NightWild Beasts SubduedBirds EatingBirdsTragedy

Strangers shall submit themselves to me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPretendingObeying People

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good to him: behold, here are oxen for burnt-sacrifice, and threshing-instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.

Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesFirewood