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including Aram, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amelek. This also included some of the plunder taken from King Hadadezer son of Rehob of Zobah.

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel's best men and deployed them against the Arameans.

Verse ConceptsFront And BackSpiritual Warfarereinforcement

David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.

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

When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David's soldiers fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall and some of the king's soldiers died. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."

Verse ConceptsArchers, Men Shot ByKilling Named Individuals

Jonadab replied to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.'"

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPretendingSick Individuals

So David sent Tamar to the house saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him."

So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, and baked them.

Verse ConceptsDoughBaking BreadKneading Dough

So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, "Pretend to be in mourning and put on garments for mourning. Don't anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

So he said to his servants, "Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set Joab's portion of the field on fire.

Verse ConceptsGrainArsonBurning Plants

Some time later Absalom managed to acquire a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard.

Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesLove, Abuse OfRunningForerunnersFifties

The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesCessationStopping Still

All his servants were leaving with him, along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites -- some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with the king.

Verse ConceptsPassing BySix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, whoever hears about it will say, 'Absalom's army has been slaughtered!'

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

Verse ConceptsClothCovering The MouthPeople Hiding PeopleIgnorant Of Facts

But Joab said to him, "You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, for the king's son is dead."

So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don't go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!"

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofTreatment From YouthGet Up!Scattering Followers

David was thirsty and said, "How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!"

Verse ConceptsLove, And The Worldriskheartbeat

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationDrawing WaterPouring WaterBreaking Forthrisk