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'King' in the Bible

The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfAnointing KingsMaking Kings

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

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsBe Courageous!

and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

Verse ConceptsMaking KingsNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

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

Verse ConceptsLengthSeven Years

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

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives

Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

Verse ConceptsMaking KingsThe Elders Gathered

Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsMaking Kings

When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

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

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfMourning The Death Of OthersBurying places

The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

Verse ConceptsCounted As Fools

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

Verse ConceptsPopularity

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

Verse ConceptsMan's Purposes

The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

Verse ConceptsPrincesRankGreat Individuals

I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."

Verse ConceptsEvildoersAnointing KingsNo Strength Left

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdGoing Out And Coming InSaul And David

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsCovenant breakersOld Age, Attitudes ToAnointing, Performed OnAllegiancesCoronationsAnointing Kings

The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;" thinking, "David can't come in here."

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesZion, As A PlaceEntering Cities

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenMessengers Sent OutCedarCarpentersBuildingMasonsStonesZion, As A PlaceCommerceCedar Wood

David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

Verse ConceptsInsightStabilitySpiritual PerceptionSaul And David

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

Verse ConceptsFortificationsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingSelf DefenceAnointing Kings

It was told king David, saying, "Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because 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 joy.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemExcitementBlessed By God

It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

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

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfBenedictionsIronySarcasmEmployers, Good ExamplesNudityPeople Stripping OffPeople Who Blessed Others

It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftSabbath, In OtRoyal HousesTime Of Peace

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

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionCedarProperty, HousesTentsBuilding God's DwellingRoyal HousesThe Ark Moved AroundCedar WoodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you."

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleDoing God's Works

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

Verse ConceptsHumilityModestyPrayer, Advice For EffectivePrayer, Practicalities OfSittingPeople Sitting DownI Am UnimportantFamily LoveLove And Familymindfulness

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Verse ConceptsRestoration

When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpGroups HelpingNumbers Of Foreigners Killedsyria

From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

Verse ConceptsBrassAmassing Bronze

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,

then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:

These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;

Verse ConceptsGoldSilver

of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "Your servant is he."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyIs It Really?

The king said, "Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet."

Verse ConceptsCripplesLamenessFatherless, Examples Of

The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

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

Verse ConceptsGiving To Others

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

Verse ConceptsTablesLike Good People

It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

Verse ConceptsFacial HairHair GrowingWaiting Till Marriage

When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

Verse ConceptsAmmonitesenemies, of Israel and JudahHiringMercenariesNosesOffenceSmellsSoldiersDislikingA Thousand PeopleEleven To Nineteen ThousandTwenty Thousand And UpHating Peoples

David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king's house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

Verse ConceptsGiftsFeet WashingClean FeetSending people home

and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent Out

Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

Verse ConceptsFaultsCourage, Examples OfAnointing Kings

He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

Verse ConceptsCrowns, Worn ByGoldJewelsJewelleryWeights Of GoldTalentsweight

He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won't you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedOther Sad People

So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. 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."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitCakesPretendingSick Individuals

I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningCounted As FoolsShame Will Come

But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.

Verse ConceptsAngry People

Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant."

Verse ConceptsSheep Shearing

The king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

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

Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Verse ConceptsMourningThose Who Tore Clothes

Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead."

Verse ConceptsKilling Named IndividualsKilling Sons And Daughters

Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons are coming! It is as your servant said."

Verse ConceptsMan's Words Fulfilled

It happened, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of Others

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

Verse ConceptsMourning In Regret

[the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldSpirit, Nature OfParental Lovereuniting

Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king!"

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before David

The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

Verse ConceptsThe King's Orders

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless."

Verse ConceptsPlea Of Innocence

The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

Verse ConceptsNot Touching

Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

The woman said, "Why then have you devised 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 home again his banished one.

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeopleFound Guilty

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

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

Verse ConceptsPaying Attention To People

Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfKnowledge Of Good And EvilAngels, DescriptionThe Angel Of GodGod Be With YouLike Angels

Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

Verse ConceptsAnswering PeopleThings Revealed

The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenTurning To Right And Left

The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

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

Verse ConceptsBowing Before David

The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

Verse ConceptsNo Dealings

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

Verse ConceptsImpatienceOthers Summoning

Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to 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 to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingReinstatementKissesBowing Before DavidKings Summoning

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."

Verse ConceptsGatesRoadsStanding In The GatewayThose Who Rose EarlyWhere From?

Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you."

Verse ConceptsClaims

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

It happened 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 Yahweh, in Hebron.

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

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron!'"

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

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

Verse ConceptsChoosing Things

The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesCessationStopping Still

All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

Verse ConceptsPassing BySix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

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

Ittai answered the king, and said, "As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall is, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be."

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyServants, GoodFriendship, Examples OfCompanionshipLife And Death

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsValleysTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In JerusalemReinstating People

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

Verse ConceptsSeers

but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'

The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

Verse ConceptsSummerRiding DonkeysSummer FruitTired In Flight

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