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So Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron to ask him, "Who owns this land? Cut a deal with me, and look! I'll lend my hand in bringing all of Israel over to you!"

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutAllegiances

David replied, "Sounds good to me! I'll cut a deal with you under one condition: you're not to show yourself in my presence unless you bring Saul's daughter with you when you come to see me."

when I had commanded judges to administer my people Israel. I'll also grant you relief from all your enemies."'

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesTime Of Peace

But I'll never remove my gracious love from him as I did from Saul, whom I removed from your presence.

Verse ConceptsWarnings Against ApostasyApostasy, Ot ExamplesDeposingGod Showed His Lovingkindnesssaul

David also conquered Moab, then measured them with a cord, making them lie down on the ground. He executed everyone measured out in each two lengths' measurement of the cord, but spared the ones measured out by every third length. Then the Moabites were placed under servitude to David, and made to pay tribute.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersLengthTaxationTributesDividing Into Three GroupsThose Subjected To People

So David asked, "Where is he?" Ziba responded, "He's in Lo-debar at the home of Ammiel's son Makir."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

At this, King David sent for him and brought him from the home of Ammiel's son Makir in Lo-debar.

"Don't be afraid," David reassured him, "because I'm going to show gracious love to you in memory of your father Jonathan. I'm going to restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you'll always have a place at my table!"

Verse ConceptsGrandparentsReinstatementRestitutionBenevolenceRestoring Thingsgrandfathersreassurance

Mephibosheth bowed low again and asked, "Who am I, your servant, that you would pay attention to a dead dog like me?"

Verse ConceptsdogsBowing Before DavidI Am Unimportant

Then David invited Uriah, "Stay here today, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem all that day and the next.

Then at David's invitation, he and Uriah dined and drank wine together, and David got him drunk. Later that evening, Uriah went out to lie on a couch in the company of his lord's servants, and he did not go down to his house.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrunkenness, Examples OfPeople Making Drunk

"This is what the LORD says: ""Listen very carefully! ""I'm raising up evil against you right out of your own household. ""I'm going to take your wives away from you right before your eyes. ""Then I'll give them to your neighbor. ""And then he's going to have sex with your wives in broad daylight!

Verse ConceptsHatred Between RelativesDuring The DayGod Will Bring HarmTransferring WivesRelationship Troublesgrandfathers

But now that he has died, what's the point of fasting? Can I bring him back again? I'll be going to be with him, but he won't be returning to me."

Verse ConceptsResignationAge Of AccountabilityHow Death Is InevitableNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearPointless FastingFastingDeath Of A ChildLoss Of A Loved One

so call out the rest of the army, attack the city, and capture it. Otherwise, I'll take the city myself and name it after me."

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

Jonadab advised him, "Lie down and pretend to be sick. When your father visits you, ask him, "Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat that she prepares especially for me, and after she makes dinner for me, let her feed it to me personally.'"

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPretendingSick Individuals

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to visit him, Amnon asked the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make some of her bread especially for me, so she can feed it to me personally."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitCakesPretendingSick Individuals

And what about me? Where will I go to escape this disgrace? And as for you, you'll be known as one of Israel's greatest fools! So please talk to the king, because he won't withhold me from you!"

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningCounted As FoolsShame Will Come

Then Absalom instructed his young men, "Please keep watching Amnon until he's drunk. Then I'll tell you, "Attack Amnon!' As soon as I do, kill him and don't be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!"

Verse ConceptsFeastingAssassinations, CompletedWineBraveryDrunk IndividualsBe Courageous!

Now please pay attention closely! My whole family is attacking your humble servant! They're saying, "Turn over the one who attacked his brother and we'll put him to death in retribution for his brother, whose life he took. That way, we'll kill the heir also!' They're going to extinguish the only light left in my family, leaving my late husband neither an ongoing name nor a survivor on the face of the earth!"

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

Then the king replied to the woman, "Go home and I'll issue a special order just for you."

Verse ConceptsThe King's Orders

Then she said, "Your majesty, please remember the LORD your God, so that blood avengers don't do any more damage! Otherwise, they'll destroy my son!" So he promised, "As the LORD lives, not even a single hair from your son's head will fall to the ground!"

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

"Now as to why I've come to speak with your majesty the king, it's because the people have made me afraid, so your humble servant told herself, "I'll go speak to the king, so perhaps the king will do what his humble servant has requested.

Then the king addressed Joab, "Look! I'll do this thing that you've requested. Go bring back the young man Absalom."

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

So David told all of his staff who were with him in Jerusalem, "Let's get up and get out of here! Otherwise, none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry, or he'll overtake us quickly, bring disaster on all of us, and execute the inhabitants of the city!"

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Examples OfHasteDesertionEscaping From PeopleHurrying Others On

The king told Zadok, "Take the Ark of God back to the city. If I'm shown favor in the LORD's sight, then he'll bring me back again and show me both it and the place where it rests.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In JerusalemReinstating People

Look! I'll camp at the wilderness fords until you send word to inform me."

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingFordsTelling Of Happenings

David greeted him, "If you come along with me, you'll be a burden to me.

Verse ConceptsHeavy Burdens

So go back to the city and tell Absalom, "I'll be your servant, your majesty! Just as I served your father in the past, I can be your servant now.' That way you can manipulate Ahithophel's advice to my benefit.

Their two sons Zadok's son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan are with them there. You'll be sending me everything that you hear through them."

"Get out of here! Get out!" Shimei yelled as he cursed. "You murderer! You who think you're above the law!

Hushai replied, "No! On the contrary, whomever the LORD, this group, and all the men of Israel choose is where I'll be, and I'll remain with him!

Verse ConceptsCompanionshipChoosing PeoplePeople Possessing Other Things

Besides, who else should I be serving? Why not the son? The same way I served your father, I'll serve you."

Verse ConceptsServants Of People

"I'll catch him while he is still tired and weak. I'll frighten him so all his people with him desert him. But I'll only kill the king.

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingOnly One PersonKilling Will HappenTired In Flighttired

Then I'll bring everybody else back to you. When the man you're looking for is dead, all the rest of the people will return quietly."

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

So here's my advice: Muster everybody from one end of the country to the other! You'll have an army in number like the sand on the seashore! Then you'll go into battle!

Verse ConceptsSandAssembling IsraelActing For OneselfMany In Israel

We'll go find David wherever he's hiding. We'll fall on him like dew on the ground! We'll kill him and all of his men, and we won't leave even one man alive!

Verse ConceptsdewHoly Spirit, Types OfNo SurvivorsKilling Will Happen

If he escapes into a city, we'll bring ropes to that city and tear it down! We won't leave a single stone left in the valley!"

Verse ConceptsRopesCities Under AttackPulling ThingsBuilding Stones Rejected

"Give me 12,000 men! I'll leave tonight and pursue David," Ahithophel advised Absalom.

Verse ConceptsEntering Citiesrisk

When David arrived at Mahanaim, Shobi (Nahash's son from the Ammonite town of Rabbah), Makir (Ammiel's son from Lo-debar), and Barzillai (from Rogelim in Gilead) were already there.

So David responded, "I'll do what you think best." Then he stood alongside the city gate as the army went out in battle array by hundreds and thousands.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Zadok's son Ahimaaz told Joab, "Let me run over to King David and take him the news. I'll mention that the LORD has delivered him from his enemies."

Verse ConceptsHeraldRunningGod Saving From EnemiesTelling Of People's Situations

"Everything's fine!" Ahimaaz announced to the king. He bowed low with his face to the ground before the king and said, "Praise be to the LORD your God! He has handed over the men who rebelled against your majesty the king."

Verse ConceptsBowingSalutationsGod Handing OverBowing Before David

Now get up and restore the morale of your army. I swear by the LORD that if you don't get out there, you won't have a single man left in your army by nightfall! You'll be in more trouble today than all the disasters you've been through from your boyhood until now!"

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofTreatment From YouthGet Up!Scattering Followers

He replied, "Well, your majesty, since your servant is lame, I told myself, "I'll have my donkey saddled and I'll ride on it so I can leave with the king.' But my servant Ziba deceived me

Verse ConceptsBackPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysThose Who Deceived

So the king invited Barzillai, "Cross the Jordan River with me, live with me in Jerusalem, and I'll provide for you there."

Verse ConceptsFeedingPeople Providing

So the king answered, "Chimham will accompany me, and I'll do for him whatever seems best to you! I'll do anything for you that you want!"

Right about then, Bichri's son Sheba, an ungodly man from the tribe of Benjamin, sounded a battle trumpet and announced: We've never been a part of David! We'll never gain anything from Jesse's son! It's every man to his tent, Israel!

Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

So David told Abishai, "Now Bichri's son Sheba is about to do more damage than did Absalom. So take my personal guards and go after them. Otherwise, he'll run to one of the fortified cities and escape from us."

Verse ConceptsFortressesFortified CitiesPeople Possibly Doing Evil

One of Joab's soldiers stood by Amasa while he lay dying and announced, "Whoever is in favor of Joab and David, let him follow Joab."

Verse ConceptsPeople Following People

While Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway, everybody who passed by was stopping to stare at him, so when the soldier saw that all of the army was stopping, he carried Amasa off the highway into a nearby field and covered him with a garment.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

That's a lie! But there is a man from the Ephraim hill country he's known as Bichri's son Sheba who has rebelled against King David. Turn him over and I'll withdraw from the city!"

Verse ConceptsHanding Over People