display: 1 Samuel 25:3

text: Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife, Abigail: and shee was a woman of good vnderstanding, and of a beautifull countenance: but the man was churlish and euill in his doings, and hee was of the house of Caleb.


display: 1 Samuel 25:4

1 Samuel

testament: OT

text: ¶ And Dauid heard in the wildernesse, that Nabal did sheare his sheepe.


display: 1 Samuel 25:5

text: And Dauid sent out ten yong men, and Dauid said vnto the young men, Get you vp to Carmel, and goe to Nabal, and greete him in my name;


display: 1 Samuel 25:6

text: And thus shall ye say to him that liueth in prosperitie, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be vnto all that thou hast.


display: 1 Samuel 25:7

text: And now, I haue heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepheards which were with vs, wee hurt them not, neither was there ought missing vnto them, all the while they were in Carmel.


display: 1 Samuel 25:8

text: Aske thy yong men, and they will shew thee: wherefore let the yong men finde fauour in thine eyes: (for we come in a good day) giue, I pray thee, whatsoeuer commeth to thine hand, vnto thy seruants, and to thy sonne Dauid.


display: 1 Samuel 25:9

text: And when Dauids yong men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of Dauid, and ceased.


display: 1 Samuel 25:10

text: ¶ And Nabal answered Dauids seruants, and said, Who is Dauid? and who is the sonne of Iesse? There bee many seruants now a daies that breake away euery man from his master.


display: 1 Samuel 25:11

text: Shall I then take my bread and my water, and my flesh that I haue killed for my shearers, and giue it vnto men, whom I know not whence they bee?


display: 1 Samuel 25:12

text: So Dauids yong men turned their way, and went againe, and came and told him all those sayings.


display: 1 Samuel 25:13

text: And Dauid said vnto his men, Gird you on euery man his sword. And they girded on euery man his sword, and Dauid also girded on his sword: and there went vp after Dauid about foure hundred men, and two hundred abode by the stuffe.


display: 1 Samuel 25:14

text: ¶ But one of the yong men told Abigail Nabals wife, saying, Behold, Dauid sent messengers out of the wildernesse to salute our master: and he railed on them.


display: 1 Samuel 25:15

text: But the men were very good vnto vs, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing as long as wee were conuersant with them, when we were in the fields.


display: 1 Samuel 25:16

text: They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.


display: 1 Samuel 25:17

text: Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt doe: for euill is determined against our master, and against all his houshold: for he is such a sonne of Belial, that a man cannot speake to him.


display: 1 Samuel 25:18

text: ¶ Then Abigail made haste, and tooke two hundred loaues, and two bottles of wine, and fiue sheepe readie dressed, and fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figges, and laid them on asses.


display: 1 Samuel 25:19

text: And she said vnto her seruants, Goe on before me, behold, I come after you: but she told not her husband Nabal.


display: 1 Samuel 25:20

text: And it was so as she rode on the asse, that she came downe by the couert of the hill, and behold, Dauid and his men came downe against her, and she met them.


display: 1 Samuel 25:21

text: (Now Dauid had said, Surely in vaine haue I kept all that this fellow hath in the wildernesse, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained vnto him: and he hath requited me euil for good.


display: 1 Samuel 25:22

text: So and more also doe God vnto the enemies of Dauid, if I leaue of all that pertaine to him by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.)


display: 1 Samuel 25:23

text: And when Abigail saw Dauid, she hasted, and lighted off the asse, and fell before Dauid on her face, and bowed her selfe to the ground,


display: 1 Samuel 25:24

text: And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, vpon me let this iniquitie be, and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speake in thine audience, and heare the words of thine handmaid.


display: 1 Samuel 25:25

text: Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, euen Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: But I thine handmaid saw not the yong men of my lord, whom thou didst send.


display: 1 Samuel 25:26

text: Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liueth, and as thy soule liueth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from comming to shed blood, and from auenging thy selfe with thine owne hand: now let thine enemies and they that secke euill to my lord, bee as Nabal.


display: 1 Samuel 25:27

text: And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought vnto my lord, let it euen be giuen vnto the yong men that follow my lord.


display: 1 Samuel 25:28

text: I pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of thine handmaide: for the LORD will certainely make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battels of the LORD, and euill hath not bene found in thee all thy dayes.


display: 1 Samuel 25:29

text: Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seeke thy soule: but the soule of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God, and the soules of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.


display: 1 Samuel 25:30

text: And it shall come to passe when the LORD shal haue done to my lord, according to all the good that hee hath spoken concerning thee, and shall haue appointed thee ruler ouer Israel;


display: 1 Samuel 25:31

text: That this shall bee no griefe vnto thee, nor offence of heart vnto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causelesse, or that my lord hath auenged himselfe: But when the LORD shall haue dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmayd.


display: 1 Samuel 25:32

text: ¶ And Dauid sayd to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me.


display: 1 Samuel 25:33

text: And blessed bee thy aduice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from comming to shed blood, and from auenging my selfe with mine owne hand.


display: 1 Samuel 25:34

text: For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liueth, which hath kept mee backe from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not bene left vnto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.


display: 1 Samuel 25:35

text: So Dauid receiued of her hand that which shee had brought him, and sayd vnto her, Goe vp in peace to thine house; See, I haue hearkened to thy voyce, and haue accepted thy person.


display: 1 Samuel 25:36

text: ¶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; & Nabals heart was merry within him, for hee was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, lesse or more, vntill the morning light.


display: 1 Samuel 25:37

text: But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.


display: 1 Samuel 25:38

text: And it came to passe about ten dayes after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.


display: 1 Samuel 25:39

text: ¶ And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproch from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his seruant from euil: for the LORD hath returned the wickednesse of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent, and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.


display: 1 Samuel 25:40

text: And when the seruants of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake vnto her, saying, Dauid sent vs vnto thee, to take thee to him to wife.


display: 1 Samuel 25:41

text: And shee arose, and bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and sayd, Beholde, let thine handmayd bee a seruant to wash the feet of the seruants of my lord.


display: 1 Samuel 25:42

text: And Abigail hasted, and rose, and rode vpon an asse, with fiue damosels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of Dauid, and became his wife.


display: 1 Samuel 25:43

text: Dauid also tooke Ahinoam of Iezreel, and they were also both of them his wiues.


display: 1 Samuel 25:44

text: ¶ But Saul had giuen Michal his daughter, Dauids wife, to Phalti the sonne of Laish, which was of Gallim.


display: 1 Samuel 26:1

text: And the Ziphites came vnto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doeth not Dauid hide himselfe in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Ieshimon?


display: 1 Samuel 26:2

text: Then Saul arose, and went downe to the wildernesse of Ziph, hauing three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seeke Dauid in the wildernesse of Ziph.


display: 1 Samuel 26:3

text: And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Ieshimon by the way: but Dauid abode in the wildernesse, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wildernesse.


display: 1 Samuel 26:4

text: Dauid therefore sent out spies, and vnderstood that Saul was come in very deed.


display: 1 Samuel 26:5

text: ¶ And Dauid arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the sonne of Ner the captaine of his hoste: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.


display: 1 Samuel 26:6

text: Then answered Dauid, and sayd to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah brother to Ioab, saying, Who will goe downe with me to Saul to the campe? And Abishai sayd, I will goe downe with thee.


display: 1 Samuel 26:7

text: So Dauid and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his speare stucke in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.


display: 1 Samuel 26:8

text: Then said Abishai to Dauid, God hath deliuered thine enemie into thine hand this day: now therefore let mee smite him, I pray thee, with the speare, euen to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.


display: 1 Samuel 26:9

text: And Dauid sayd to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORDs Anointed, and be guiltlesse?


display: 1 Samuel 26:10

text: Dauid said furthermore, As the LORD liueth, the LORD shal smite him, or his day shall come to die, or hee shall descend into battell, and perish.


display: 1 Samuel 26:11

text: The LORD forbid that I should stretch foorth mine hand against the LORDs Anointed: but I pray thee, take thou now the speare that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let vs goe.


display: 1 Samuel 26:12

text: So Dauid tooke the speare and the cruse of water from Sauls bolster, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleepe, because a deepe sleepe from the LORD was fallen vpon them.


display: 1 Samuel 26:13

text: ¶ Then Dauid went ouer to the other side, and stood on the toppe of an hill afarre off (a great space being betweene them:)


display: 1 Samuel 26:14

text: And Dauid cryed to the people, and to Abner the sonne of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered, and sayd, Who art thou that cryest to the King?


display: 1 Samuel 26:15

text: And Dauid said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? Wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in, to destroy the king thy lord.


display: 1 Samuel 26:16

text: This thing is not good that thou hast done: as the LORD liueth, ye are worthy to die, because yee haue not kept your master the LORDs Anointed: and now see where the Kings speare is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.


display: 1 Samuel 26:17

text: And Saul knew Dauids voyce, and said, Is this thy voice, my sonne Dauid? And Dauid saide, It is my voice, my lord, O king.


display: 1 Samuel 26:18

text: And he said, Wherefore doeth my lord thus pursue after his seruant? for what haue I done? or what euill is in mine hand?


display: 1 Samuel 26:19

text: Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king heare the words of his seruant: If the LORD haue stirred thee vp against mee, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD: for they haue driuen me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Goe serue other gods.


display: 1 Samuel 26:20

text: Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as when one doeth hunt a partridge in the mountaines.


display: 1 Samuel 26:21

text: ¶ Then said Saul, I haue sinned: Returne, my sonne Dauid, for I will no more doe thee harme, because my soule was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I haue played the foole, and haue erred exceedingly.


display: 1 Samuel 26:22

text: And Dauid answered, and sayd, Behold the kings speare, and let one of the yong men come ouer and fetch it.


display: 1 Samuel 26:23

text: The LORD render to euery man his righteousnesse, and his faithfulnesse: for the LORD deliuered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch foorth mine hand against the LORDs Anointed.


display: 1 Samuel 26:24

text: And behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life bee much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliuer me out of all tribulation.


display: 1 Samuel 26:25

text: Then Saul said to Dauid, Blessed be thou, my sonne Dauid: thou shalt both doe great things, and also shalt still preuaile. So Dauid went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.


display: 1 Samuel 27:1

text: And Dauid sayd in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me, then that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shal despaire of me, to seeke me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.


display: 1 Samuel 27:2

text: And Dauid arose, and hee passed ouer with the sixe hundred men that were with him, vnto Achish the sonne of Maoch king of Gath.


display: 1 Samuel 27:3

text: And Dauid dwelt with Achish at Gath, he, and his men, euery man with his houshold, euen Dauid with his two wiues, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail the Carmelitesse Nabals wife.


display: 1 Samuel 27:4

text: And it was told Saul, that Dauid was fled to Gath, and he sought no more againe for him.


display: 1 Samuel 27:5

text: ¶ And Dauid said vnto Achish, If I haue now found grace in thine eyes, let them giue mee a place in some towne in the countrey, that I may dwel there: for why should thy seruant dwell in the royall citie with thee?


display: 1 Samuel 27:6

text: Then Achish gaue him Ziklag that day: wherfore Ziklag pertaineth vnto the kings of Iudah vnto this day.


display: 1 Samuel 27:7

text: And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistines, was a full yeere, and foure moneths.


display: 1 Samuel 27:8

text: ¶ And Dauid and his men went vp and inuaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, euen vnto the land of Egypt.


display: 1 Samuel 27:9

text: And Dauid smote the land, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke away the sheepe, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparell, and returned, and came to Achish.


display: 1 Samuel 27:10

text: And Achish said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Against the South of Iudah, and against the South of the Ierahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.


display: 1 Samuel 27:11

text: And Dauid saued neither man nor woman aliue, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on vs, saying, So did Dauid, and so will be his maner, all the while he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistines.


display: 1 Samuel 27:12

text: And Achish beleeued Dauid, saying, Hee hath made his people Israel vtterly to abhorre him, therefore hee shall be my seruant for euer.


display: 1 Samuel 28:1

text: And it came to passe in those dayes, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel: And Achish said vnto Dauid, Knowe thou assuredly, that thou shalt goe out with me to battell, thou, and thy men.


display: 1 Samuel 28:2

text: And Dauid said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy seruant can doe. And Achish said to Dauid, Therfore will I make thee keeper of mine head for euer.


display: 1 Samuel 28:3

text: ¶ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, euen in his owne citie: and Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wyzards, out of the land.


display: 1 Samuel 28:4

text: And the Philistines gathered themselues together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.


display: 1 Samuel 28:5

text: And when Saul saw the hoste of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.


display: 1 Samuel 28:6

text: And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreames, nor by Urim, nor by Prophets.


display: 1 Samuel 28:7

text: ¶ Then said Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may goe to her, and enquire of her. And his seruant said to him, Beholde, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.


display: 1 Samuel 28:8

text: And Saul disguised himselfe, and put on other raiment, and hee went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said, I pray thee diuine vnto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him vp whom I shall name vnto thee.


display: 1 Samuel 28:9

text: And the woman saide vnto him, Beholde, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how hee hath cut off those that haue familiar spirits, and the wyzards out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?


display: 1 Samuel 28:10

text: And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liueth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.


display: 1 Samuel 28:11

text: Then said the woman, Whome shall I bring vp vnto thee? and he said, Bring me vp Samuel.


display: 1 Samuel 28:12

text: And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a lowd voyce; and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceiued me? for thou art Saul.


display: 1 Samuel 28:13

text: And the king sayd vnto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said vnto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.


display: 1 Samuel 28:14

text: And he said vnto her, What forme is he of? And she said, An old man commeth vp, and he is couered with a mantle. And Saul perceiued that it was Samuel, and hee stouped with his face to the ground, and bowed himselfe.


display: 1 Samuel 28:15

text: ¶ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me vp? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistins make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophets, nor by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayst make knowen vnto me, what I shall doe.


display: 1 Samuel 28:16

text: Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of mee, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?


display: 1 Samuel 28:17

text: And the LORD hath done to him, as hee spake by mee: for the LORD hath rent the kingdome out of thine hand, and giuen it to thy neighbour, euen to Dauid:


display: 1 Samuel 28:18

text: Because thou obeiedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath vpon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing vnto thee this day.


display: 1 Samuel 28:19

text: Moreouer, the LORD will also deliuer Israel with thee, into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sonnes bee with mee: the LORD also shall deliuer the hoste of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.


display: 1 Samuel 28:20

text: Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel, & there was no strength in him: for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor al the night.


display: 1 Samuel 28:21

text: ¶ And the woman came vnto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and sayd vnto him, Behold, thine handmayd hath obeyed thy voice, and I haue put my life in my hand, and haue hearkened vnto thy words which thou spakest vnto me:


display: 1 Samuel 28:22

text: Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also vnto the voyce of thine handmaid, & let me set a morsel of bread before thee; & eat, that thou mayest haue strength, when thou goest on thy way.


display: 1 Samuel 28:23

text: But hee refused, and said, I will not eate. But his seruants together with the woman compelled him, and he hearkened vnto their voyce: so he arose from the earth, & sate vpon the bed.


display: 1 Samuel 28:24

text: And the woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted, and killed it, and tooke flower and kneaded it, and did bake vnleauened bread thereof.


display: 1 Samuel 28:25

text: And she brought it before Saul, and before his seruants, and they did eate: then they arose vp, and went away that night.


display: 1 Samuel 29:1

text: Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountaine which is in Iezreel.


display: 1 Samuel 29:2

text: And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but Dauid and his men passed on in the rere-ward with Achish.


display: 1 Samuel 29:3

text: Then said the princes of the Philistines, What doe these Hebrewes here? And Achish said vnto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this Dauid the seruant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath bene with me these dayes, or these yeeres, and I haue found no fault in him since he fell vnto me, vnto this day?


display: 1 Samuel 29:4

text: And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him, and the princes of the Philistines said vnto him, Make this fellow returne, that he may goe againe to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go downe with vs to battel, lest in the battell he be an aduersary to vs: for wherewith should hee reconcile himselfe vnto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?


display: 1 Samuel 29:5

text: Is not this Dauid, of whom they sang one to another in daunces, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and Dauid his ten thousands?


display: 1 Samuel 29:6

text: ¶ Then Achish called Dauid, and said vnto him, Surely, as the LORD liueth, thou hast bene vpright, and thy going out and thy comming in with me in the hoste is good in my sight: for I haue not found euil in thee, since the day of thy comming vnto me vnto this day: neuertheles, the lords fauour thee not.


display: 1 Samuel 29:7

text: Wherefore now returne and goe in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.


display: 1 Samuel 29:8

text: ¶ And Dauid said vnto Achish, But what haue I done? and what hast thou found in thy seruant so long as I haue bene with thee vnto this day, that I may not goe fight against the enemies of my lord the king?


display: 1 Samuel 29:9

text: And Achish answered, and said to Dauid, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an Angel of God: notwithstanding the Princes of the Philistines haue said, Hee shall not goe vp with vs to the battell.


display: 1 Samuel 29:10

text: Wherfore now rise vp early in the morning, with thy masters seruants that are come with thee: and assoone as yee be vp early in the morning, and haue light, depart.


display: 1 Samuel 29:11

text: So Dauid and his men rose vp early to depart in the morning, to returne into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went vp to Iezreel.


display: 1 Samuel 30:1

text: And it came to passe when Dauid and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had inuaded the South and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burnt it with fire:


display: 1 Samuel 30:2

text: And had taken the women captiues, that were therein; they slewe not any either great or smal, but caried them away, and went on their way.


display: 1 Samuel 30:3

text: ¶ So Dauid and his men came to the citie, and beholde, it was burnt with fire, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters were taken captiues.


display: 1 Samuel 30:4

text: Then Dauid and the people that were with him, lift vp their voice, and wept, vntill they had no more power to weepe.


display: 1 Samuel 30:5

text: And Dauids two wiues were taken captiues, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.


display: 1 Samuel 30:6

text: And Dauid was greatly distressed: for the people spake of stoning him, because the soule of all the people was grieued, euery man for his sonnes, and for his daughters: but Dauid encouraged himselfe in the LORD his God.


display: 1 Samuel 30:7

text: And Dauid said to Abiathar the Priest Ahimelechs sonne, I pray thee, bring mee hither the Ephod: and Abiathar brought thither the Ephod to Dauid.


display: 1 Samuel 30:8

text: And Dauid enquired at the LORD, saying; Shall I pursue after this troupe? shall I ouertake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely ouertake them, and without faile recouer all.


display: 1 Samuel 30:9

text: So Dauid went, hee, and the sixe hundred men that were with him, and came to the brooke Besor, where those that were left behinde, stayed.


display: 1 Samuel 30:10

text: But Dauid pursued, he and foure hundred men: (for two hundred abode behinde, which were so faint that they could not goe ouer the brooke Besor.)


display: 1 Samuel 30:11

text: ¶ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to Dauid, and gaue him bread, and he did eate, and they made him drinke water.


display: 1 Samuel 30:12

text: And they gaue him a piece of a cake of figges, and two clusters of raisins: and when hee had eaten, his spirit came againe to him: for hee had eaten no bread, nor drunke any water, three dayes and three nights.


display: 1 Samuel 30:13

text: And Dauid sayde vnto him, To whome belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a yong man of Egypt, seruant to an Amalekite, and my master left me, because three dayes agone I fell sicke.


display: 1 Samuel 30:14

text: Wee made an inuasion vpon the South of the Cherethites, and vpon the coast which belongeth to Iudah, and vpon the South of Caleb, and wee burnt Ziklag with fire.


display: 1 Samuel 30:15

text: And Dauid sayde to him, Canst thou bring me downe to this company? And he said, Sweare vnto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliuer mee into the handes of my master, and I will bring thee downe to this company.


display: 1 Samuel 30:16

text: ¶ And when he had brought him downe, behold, they were spread abroad vpon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dauncing, because of all the great spoile that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Iudah.


display: 1 Samuel 30:17

text: And Dauid smote them from the twilight, euen vnto the euening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, saue foure hundred yong men which rode vpon camels, and fled.


display: 1 Samuel 30:18

text: And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid rescued his two wiues.


display: 1 Samuel 30:19

text: And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sonnes nor daughters, neither spoile, nor any thing that they had taken to them: Dauid recouered all.


display: 1 Samuel 30:20

text: And Dauid tooke all the flockes, and the herds, which they draue before those other cattell, and said, This is Dauids spoile.


display: 1 Samuel 30:21

text: ¶ And Dauid came to the two hundred men which were so faint that they could not follow Dauid, whome they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet Dauid, and to meete the people, that were with him; and when Dauid came neere to the people, he saluted them.


display: 1 Samuel 30:22

text: Then answered all the wicked men, and men of Belial, of those that went with Dauid, and said, Because they went not with vs, we wil not giue them ought of the spoile, that wee haue recouered, saue to euery man his wife and his children, that they may leade them away, and depart.


display: 1 Samuel 30:23

text: Then said Dauid, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath giuen vs, who hath preserued vs, and deliuered the companie that came against vs, into our hand.


display: 1 Samuel 30:24

text: For who will hearken vnto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth downe to the battell, so shall his part bee that tarieth by the stuffe: they shall part alike.


display: 1 Samuel 30:25

text: And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute, and an ordinance for Israel, vnto this day.


display: 1 Samuel 30:26

text: ¶ And when Dauid came to Ziklag, hee sent of the spoile vnto the Elders of Iudah, euen to his friends, (saying, Behold a Present for you, of the spoile of the enemies of the LORD )


display: 1 Samuel 30:27

text: To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in South Ramoth, and to them which were in Iattir,


display: 1 Samuel 30:28

text: And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,


display: 1 Samuel 30:29

text: And to them which were in Rachal, and them which were in the cities of the Ierahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,


display: 1 Samuel 30:30

text: And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,


display: 1 Samuel 30:31

text: And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where Dauid himselfe and his men were wont to haunt.


display: 1 Samuel 31:1

text: Nowe the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.


display: 1 Samuel 31:2

text: And the Philistines followed hard vpon Saul, and vpon his sonnes, and the Philistines slewe Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Sauls sonnes.


display: 1 Samuel 31:3

text: And the battell went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was sore wounded of the archers.


display: 1 Samuel 31:4

text: Then said Saul vnto his armour bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse mee. But his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therfore Saul tooke a sword, & fell vpon it.


display: 1 Samuel 31:5

text: And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon his sword, and died with him.


display: 1 Samuel 31:6

text: So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together.


display: 1 Samuel 31:7

text: ¶ And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Iordane, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead, they forsooke the cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.


display: 1 Samuel 31:8

text: And it came to passe on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip the slaine, that they found Saul, and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.


display: 1 Samuel 31:9

text: And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about to publish it in the house of their idoles, and among the people.


display: 1 Samuel 31:10

text: And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.


display: 1 Samuel 31:11

text: ¶ And when the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul:


display: 1 Samuel 31:12

text: All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Iabesh, and burnt them there.


display: 1 Samuel 31:13

text: And they tooke their bones, and buried them vnder a tree at Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.


display: 2 Samuel 1:1

text: Now it came to passe after þ death of Saul, when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and Dauid had abode two daies in Ziklag,


display: 2 Samuel 1:2

text: It came euen to passe on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the campe from Saul, with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head: and so it was when he came to Dauid, that hee fell to the earth, and did obeysance.


display: 2 Samuel 1:3

text: And Dauid said vnto him, From whence commest thou? And he said vnto him, Out of the campe of Israel am I escaped.


display: 2 Samuel 1:4

text: And Dauid said vnto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell mee. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battell, and many of the people also are fallen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also.


display: 2 Samuel 1:5

text: And Dauid said vnto the yong man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Ionathan his sonne be dead?


display: 2 Samuel 1:6

text: And the yong man that told him, said, As I happened by chance vpon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned vpon his speare: and loe, the charets and horsemen followed hard after him.


display: 2 Samuel 1:7

text: And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called vnto mee: and I answered, Here am I.


display: 2 Samuel 1:8

text: And hee said vnto mee, Who art thou? and I answered him, I am an Amalekite.


display: 2 Samuel 1:9

text: He said vnto me againe, Stand, I pray thee, vpon me, and slay me: for anguish is come vpon mee, because my life is yet whole in me.


display: 2 Samuel 1:10

text: So I stood vpon him, and slew him, because I was sure that hee could not liue after that hee was fallen: And I tooke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arme, and haue brought them hither vnto my lord.


display: 2 Samuel 1:11

text: Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.


display: 2 Samuel 1:12

text: And they mourned and wept, and fasted vntill Euen, for Saul and for Ionathan his sonne, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.


display: 2 Samuel 1:13

text: ¶ And Dauid said vnto the yong man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the sonne of a stranger, an Amalekite.


display: 2 Samuel 1:14

text: And Dauid said vnto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch foorth thine hand, to destroy the LORDs Anointed?


display: 2 Samuel 1:15

text: And Dauid called one of the yong men, and sayd, Goe neere, and fall vpon him. And hee smote him, that hee dyed.


display: 2 Samuel 1:16

text: And Dauid said vnto him, Thy blood be vpon thy head: for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I haue slaine the LORDs Annoynted.


display: 2 Samuel 1:17

text: ¶ And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne:


display: 2 Samuel 1:18

text: (Also hee bade them teach the children of Iudah the vse of the bow: behold, it is written in the booke of Iasher.)


display: 2 Samuel 1:19

text: The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen!


display: 2 Samuel 1:20

text: Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streetes of Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce, lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph.


display: 2 Samuel 1:21

text: Yee mountaines of Gilboa, let there bee no dewe, neither let there be raine vpon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mightie is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though hee had not beene annointed with oile.


display: 2 Samuel 1:22

text: From the blood of the slaine, from the fat of the mightie, the bow of Ionathan turned not backe, and the sword of Saul returned not emptie.


display: 2 Samuel 1:23

text: Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their death they were not diuided: they were swifter then Eagles, they were stronger then Lions.


display: 2 Samuel 1:24

text: Yee daughters of Israel, weepe ouer Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of golde vpon your apparell.


display: 2 Samuel 1:25

text: How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places.


display: 2 Samuel 1:26

text: I am distressed for thee, my brother Ionathan, very pleasant hast thou beene vnto mee: thy loue to mee was wonderfull, passing the loue of women.


display: 2 Samuel 1:27

text: How are the mightie fallen, and the weapons of warre perished!


display: 2 Samuel 2:1

text: And it came to passe after this, that Dauid enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I goe vp into any of the Cities of Iudah? And the LORD said vnto him, Goe vp. And Dauid said, Whither shall I goe vp? And he said, Unto Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 2:2

text: So Dauid went vp thither, and his two wiues also, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail Nabals wife the Carmelite.


display: 2 Samuel 2:3

text: And his men that were with him, did Dauid bring vp, euery man with his houshold: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 2:4

text: And the men of Iudah came, and there they anointed Dauid king ouer the house of Iudah: and they tolde Dauid, saying; That the men of Iabesh Gilead were they that buried Saul.


display: 2 Samuel 2:5

text: ¶ And Dauid sent messengers vnto the men of Iabesh Gilead, and said vnto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye haue shewed this kindnesse vnto your lord, euen vnto Saul, and haue buried him.


display: 2 Samuel 2:6

text: And now the LORD shewe kindnesse and trueth vnto you: and I also will requite you this kindnesse, because ye haue done this thing.


display: 2 Samuel 2:7

text: Therefore now let your handes be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Iudah haue anointed me king ouer them.


display: 2 Samuel 2:8

text: ¶ But Abner the sonne of Ner, captaine of Sauls hoste, tooke Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, and brought him ouer to Mahanaim.


display: 2 Samuel 2:9

text: And hee made him king ouer Gilead, and ouer the Ashurites, and ouer Iezreel, and ouer Ephraim, and ouer Beniamin, and ouer all Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 2:10

text: Ishbosheth Sauls sonne was fortie yeeres olde when he began to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned two yeres: but the house of Iudah followed Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 2:11

text: (And the time that Dauid was King in Hebron ouer the house of Iudah, was seuen yeeres, and sixe moneths)


display: 2 Samuel 2:12

text: ¶ And Abner the sonne of Ner, and the seruants of Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, went out from Mahanaim, to Gibeon.


display: 2 Samuel 2:13

text: And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, and the seruants of Dauid went out, and met together by the poole of Gibeon: and they sate downe, the one on the one side of the poole, and the other on the other side of the poole.


display: 2 Samuel 2:14

text: And Abner said to Ioab, Let the yong men now arise, and play before vs: and Ioab saide, Let them arise.


display: 2 Samuel 2:15

text: Then there arose and went ouer by number twelue of Beniamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, and twelue of the seruants of Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 2:16

text: And they caught euery one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellowes side, so they fell downe together: Wherfore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.


display: 2 Samuel 2:17

text: And there was a very sore battell that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the seruants of Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 2:18

text: ¶ And there were three sonnes of Zeruiah there, Ioab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wilde Roe.


display: 2 Samuel 2:19

text: And Asahel pursued after Abner, and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.


display: 2 Samuel 2:20

text: Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.


display: 2 Samuel 2:21

text: And Abner said to him, Turne thee aside to thy right hand, or to thy left, and lay thee holde on one of the yong men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turne aside from following of him.


display: 2 Samuel 2:22

text: And Abner said againe to Asahel, Turne thee aside from following me: Wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I holde vp my face to Ioab thy brother?


display: 2 Samuel 2:23

text: Howbeit he refused to turne aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder ende of the speare smote him vnder the fift ribbe, that the speare came out behinde him, and hee fell downe there, and died in the same place: and it came to passe, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell downe and died, stood still.


display: 2 Samuel 2:24

text: Ioab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the Sunne went downe when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wildernesse of Gibeon.


display: 2 Samuel 2:25

text: ¶ And the children of Beniamin gathered themselues together after Abner, and became one troupe, and stood on the top of an hill.


display: 2 Samuel 2:26

text: Then Abner called to Ioab, and said, Shall the sword deuoure for euer? Knowest thou not that it wil be bitternesse in the latter end? How long shall it bee then, yer thou bid the people returne from following their brethren?


display: 2 Samuel 2:27

text: And Ioab said, As God liueth, vnlesse thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone vp euery one from following his brother.


display: 2 Samuel 2:28

text: So Ioab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.


display: 2 Samuel 2:29

text: And Abner and his men walked all that night thorow the plaine, and passed ouer Iordane, and went thorow all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.


display: 2 Samuel 2:30

text: And Ioab returned from folowing Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of Dauids seruants nineteene men, and Asahel.


display: 2 Samuel 2:31

text: But the seruants of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin and of Abners men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.


display: 2 Samuel 2:32

text: ¶ And they tooke vp Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father which was in Bethlehem: and Ioab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at breake of day.


display: 2 Samuel 3:1

text: Now there was long war betweene the house of Saul, and the house of Dauid: but Dauid waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.


display: 2 Samuel 3:2

text: ¶ And vnto Dauid were sonnes borne in Hebron: and his first borne was Ammon, of Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse.


display: 2 Samuel 3:3

text: And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite: and the third, Absalom the sonne of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;


display: 2 Samuel 3:4

text: And the fourth, Adoniiah the son of Haggith: and the fifth, Shephatiah the sonne of Abital;


display: 2 Samuel 3:5

text: And the sixth, Ithream by Eglah Dauids wife: these were borne to Dauid in Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 3:6

text: ¶ And it came to passe while there was warre between the house of Saul and the house of Dauid, that Abner made himselfe strong for the house of Saul.


display: 2 Samuel 3:7

text: And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth saide to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in vnto my fathers concubine?


display: 2 Samuel 3:8

text: Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dogs head, which against Iudah doe shew kindnesse this day vnto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and haue not deliuered thee into the hand of Dauid, that thou chargest mee to day with a fault concerning this woman?


display: 2 Samuel 3:9

text: So doe God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworne to Dauid, euen so I doe to him:


display: 2 Samuel 3:10

text: To translate the kingdome from the house of Saul, and to set vp the throne of Dauid ouer Israel, and ouer Iudah, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba.


display: 2 Samuel 3:11

text: And he could not answere Abner a word againe, because he feared him.


display: 2 Samuel 3:12

text: ¶ And Abner sent messengers to Dauid on his behalfe, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and behold, my hand shall bee with thee, to bring about all Israel vnto thee.


display: 2 Samuel 3:13

text: ¶ And he said, Well, I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Sauls daughter, when thou commest to see my face.


display: 2 Samuel 3:14

text: And Dauid sent messengers to Ishbosheth Sauls sonne, saying, Deliuer mee my wife Michal, which I espoused to mee for an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines.


display: 2 Samuel 3:15

text: And Ishbosheth sent, and tooke her from her husband, euen from Phaltiel the sonne of Laish.


display: 2 Samuel 3:16

text: And her husband went with her along weeping behinde her to Bahurim: then said Abner vnto him, Goe, returne. And he returned.


display: 2 Samuel 3:17

text: ¶ And Abner had communication with the Elders of Israel, saying, Yee sought for Dauid in times past, to be king ouer you.


display: 2 Samuel 3:18

text: Now then doe it, for the LORD hath spoken of Dauid, saying; By the hand of my seruant Dauid I will saue my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.


display: 2 Samuel 3:19

text: And Abner also spake in the eares of Beniamin: and Abner went also to speake in the eares of Dauid in Hebron, all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Beniamin.


display: 2 Samuel 3:20

text: So Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, and twenty men with him: and Dauid made Abner, and the men that were with him, a feast.


display: 2 Samuel 3:21

text: And Abner said vnto Dauid, I will arise, and goe, and will gather all Israel vnto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest raigne ouer all that thine heart desireth. And Dauid sent Abner away, and he went in peace.


display: 2 Samuel 3:22

text: ¶ And behold, the seruants of Dauid, and Ioab came from pursuing a troupe, and brought in a great spoile with them: (but Abner was not with Dauid in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.)


display: 2 Samuel 3:23

text: When Ioab and all the host that was with him, were come, they told Ioab, saying, Abner the sonne of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.


display: 2 Samuel 3:24

text: Then Ioab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came vnto thee, why is it that thou hast sent him away, & he is quite gone?


display: 2 Samuel 3:25

text: Thou knowest Abner the sonne of Ner, that he came to deceiue thee, and to know thy going out, and thy comming in, & to know all that thou doest.


display: 2 Samuel 3:26

text: And when Ioab was come out from Dauid, hee sent messengers after Abner, which brought him againe from the well of Siriah; but Dauid knew it not.


display: 2 Samuel 3:27

text: And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Ioab tooke him aside in the gate to speake with him quietly: and smote him there vnder the fift ribbe, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.


display: 2 Samuel 3:28

text: ¶ And afterward when Dauid heard it, hee said, I and my kingdome are guiltlesse before the LORD for euer, from the blood of Abner the sonne of Ner:


display: 2 Samuel 3:29

text: Let it rest on the head of Ioab, and on all his fathers house, & let there not faile from the house of Ioab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staffe, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.


display: 2 Samuel 3:30

text: So Ioab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slaine their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battell.


display: 2 Samuel 3:31

text: ¶ And Dauid said to Ioab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and girde you with sackecloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid himselfe followed the biere.


display: 2 Samuel 3:32

text: And they buried Abner in Hebron, and the king lift vp his voice, and wept at the graue of Abner; and all the people wept.


display: 2 Samuel 3:33

text: And the king lamented ouer Abner, and said, Died Abner as a foole dieth?


display: 2 Samuel 3:34

text: Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feete put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept againe ouer him.


display: 2 Samuel 3:35

text: And when all the people came to cause Dauid to eate meate while it was yet day, Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to mee, and more also, if I taste bread or ought else, till the Sunne be downe.


display: 2 Samuel 3:36

text: And all the people tooke notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the King did, pleased all the people.


display: 2 Samuel 3:37

text: For all the people, and all Israel vnderstood that day, that it was not of the King to slay Abner the sonne of Ner.


display: 2 Samuel 3:38

text: And the King said vnto his seruants, Knowe yee not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?


display: 2 Samuel 3:39

text: And I am this day weake, though anointed King, and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of euill, according to his wickednesse.


display: 2 Samuel 4:1

text: And when Sauls sonne heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.


display: 2 Samuel 4:2

text: And Sauls sonne had two men that were captaines of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sonnes of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Beniamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Beniamin:


display: 2 Samuel 4:3

text: And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were soiourners there vntill this day.)


display: 2 Samuel 4:4

text: And Ionathan, Sauls sonne, had a sonne that was lame of his feete, and was fiue yeeres olde when the tidings came of Saul and Ionathan out of Iezreel, and his nource tooke him vp, and fled: and it came to passe as she made haste to flee, that hee fell, and became lame, and his name was Mephibosheth.


display: 2 Samuel 4:5

text: And the sonnes of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noone.


display: 2 Samuel 4:6

text: And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would haue fetched wheat, and they smote him vnder the fift rib, and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.


display: 2 Samuel 4:7

text: For when they came into the house, hee lay on his bedde in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and tooke his head, and gate them away thorow the plaine all night.


display: 2 Samuel 4:8

text: And they brought the head of Ishbosheth vnto Dauid to Hebron, and said to the King, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, thine enemie, which sought thy life, and the LORD hath auenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed.


display: 2 Samuel 4:9

text: ¶ And Dauid answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sonnes of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said vnto them, As the LORD liueth, who hath redeemed my soule out of all aduersitie,


display: 2 Samuel 4:10

text: When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, ( thinking to haue brought good tidings) I tooke hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would haue giuen him a reward for his tidings:


display: 2 Samuel 4:11

text: How much more, when wicked men haue slaine a righteous person, in his owne house, vpon his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?


display: 2 Samuel 4:12

text: And Dauid commanded his yong men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feete, and hanged them vp ouer the poole in Hebron: but they tooke the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner, in Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 5:1

text: Then came all the tribes of Israel to Dauid vnto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone, and thy flesh.


display: 2 Samuel 5:2

text: Also in time past when Saul was king ouer vs, thou wast hee that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt bee a captaine ouer Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 5:3

text: So all the Elders of Israel came to the King to Hebron, and King Dauid made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed Dauid King ouer Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 5:4

text: ¶ Dauid was thirtie yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fourtie yeeres.


display: 2 Samuel 5:5

text: In Hebron he reigned ouer Iudah seuen yeeres, and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem he reigned thirty and three yeres ouer all Israel and Iudah.


display: 2 Samuel 5:6

text: ¶ And the king and his men went to Ierusalem, vnto the Iebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake vnto Dauid, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: Thinking, Dauid cannot come in hither.


display: 2 Samuel 5:7

text: Neuerthelesse, Dauid tooke the strong hold of Zion: the same is the citie of Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 5:8

text: And Dauid said on that day, Whosoeuer getteth vp to the gutter, and smiteth the Iebusites, and the lame, and the blind, that are hated of Dauids soule, he shall be chiefe and captaine: Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.


display: 2 Samuel 5:9

text: So Dauid dwelt in the fort, and called it the citie of Dauid, and Dauid built round about, from Millo and inward.


display: 2 Samuel 5:10

text: And Dauid went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.


display: 2 Samuel 5:11

text: ¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to Dauid, and Cedar trees, and carpenters, and Masons: and they built Dauid an house.


display: 2 Samuel 5:12

text: And Dauid perceiued that the LORD had established him King ouer Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdome for his people Israels sake.


display: 2 Samuel 5:13

text: ¶ And Dauid tooke him mo concubines and wiues out of Ierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and there were yet sonnes and daughters borne to Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 5:14

text: And these be the names of those that were borne vnto him in Ierusalem, Shammua, & Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon:


display: 2 Samuel 5:15

text: Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,


display: 2 Samuel 5:16

text: And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.


display: 2 Samuel 5:17

text: ¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed Dauid King ouer Israel, all the Philistines came vp to seeke Dauid, and Dauid heard of it, and went downe to the hold.


display: 2 Samuel 5:18

text: The Philistines also came, and spred themselues in the valley of Rephaim.


display: 2 Samuel 5:19

text: And Dauid enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I goe vp to the Philistines? wilt thou deliuer them into mine hand? And the LORD said vnto Dauid, Goe vp: for I will doubtlesse deliuer the Philistines into thine hand.


display: 2 Samuel 5:20

text: And Dauid came to Baal-Perazim, and Dauid smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken foorth vpon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place, Baal-Perazim.


display: 2 Samuel 5:21

text: And there they left their images, and Dauid and his men burnt them.


display: 2 Samuel 5:22

text: ¶ And the Philistines came vp yet againe, and spread themselues in the valley of Rephaim.


display: 2 Samuel 5:23

text: And when Dauid enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not goe vp: but fetch a compasse behinde them, and come vpon them ouer against the Mulbery trees.


display: 2 Samuel 5:24

text: And let it be when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulbery trees, that then thou shalt bestirre thy selfe: for then shal the LORD goe out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.


display: 2 Samuel 5:25

text: And Dauid did so, as the LORD had commaunded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba, vntil thou come to Gazer.


display: 2 Samuel 6:1

text: Againe, Dauid gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirtie thousand:


display: 2 Samuel 6:2

text: And Dauid arose and went with all the people that were with him, from Baale of Iudah, to bring vp from thence the Arke of God, whose Name is called by the Name of the LORD of hostes, that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims.


display: 2 Samuel 6:3

text: And they set the Arke of God vpon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio the sonnes of Abinadab, draue the new cart.


display: 2 Samuel 6:4

text: And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the Arke of God; and Ahio went before the Arke.


display: 2 Samuel 6:5

text: And Dauid and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of Firrewood, euen on harpes, and on Psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cimbals.


display: 2 Samuel 6:6

text: ¶ And when they came to Nachons threshing floore, Uzzah put forth his hand to the Arke of God, and tooke hold of it, for the oxen shooke it.


display: 2 Samuel 6:7

text: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his errour, and there he died by the Arke of God.


display: 2 Samuel 6:8

text: And Dauid was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach vpon Uzzah: And hee called the name of the place, Perez-Uzzah to this day.


display: 2 Samuel 6:9

text: And Dauid was afraide of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the Arke of the LORD come to me?


display: 2 Samuel 6:10

text: So Dauid would not remoue the Arke of the LORD vnto him into the citie of Dauid: but Dauid caried it aside into the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite.


display: 2 Samuel 6:11

text: And the Arke of the LORD continued in the house of Obed Edom the Gittite, three moneths: and the LORD blessed Obed Edom, and all his household.


display: 2 Samuel 6:12

text: ¶ And it was told king Dauid, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed Edom, and all that pertained vnto him, because of the Arke of God. So Dauid went, and brought vp the Arke of God, from the house of Obed Edom, into the citie of Dauid, with gladnesse.


display: 2 Samuel 6:13

text: And it was so, that when they that bare the Arke of the LORD, had gone sixe paces, hee sacrificed oxen and fatlings.


display: 2 Samuel 6:14

text: And Dauid daunced before the LORD with all his might, and Dauid was girded with a linnen Ephod.


display: 2 Samuel 6:15

text: So Dauid and all the house of Israel brought vp the Arke of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.


display: 2 Samuel 6:16

text: And as the Arke of the LORD came into the citie of Dauid, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king Dauid leaping and dauncing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.


display: 2 Samuel 6:17

text: ¶ And they brought in the Arke of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the Tabernacle that Dauid had pitched for it: and Dauid offered burnt offerings, and peace offrings before the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 6:18

text: And assoone as Dauid had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, hee blessed the people in the Name of the LORD of hostes.


display: 2 Samuel 6:19

text: And hee dealt among all the people, euen among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to euery one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine: so all the people departed euery one to his house.


display: 2 Samuel 6:20

text: ¶ Then Dauid returned to blesse his houshold: and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meete Dauid, and said, How glorious was the King of Israel to day, who vncouered himselfe to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his seruants, as one of the vaine fellowes shamelessely vncouereth himselfe!


display: 2 Samuel 6:21

text: And Dauid said vnto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, & before all his house, to appoint me ruler ouer the people of the LORD, ouer Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 6:22

text: And I will yet be more vile then thus, and will be base in mine owne sight: and of the maid seruants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.


display: 2 Samuel 6:23

text: Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no childe vnto the day of her death.


display: 2 Samuel 7:1

text: And it came to passe, when the King sate in his house, and the LORD had giuen him rest round about frō all his enemies;


display: 2 Samuel 7:2

text: That the king said vnto Nathan the Prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of Cedar, but the Arke of God dwelleth within curtaines.


display: 2 Samuel 7:3

text: And Nathan sayde to the King, Go, doe all that is in thine heart: for the LORD is with thee.


display: 2 Samuel 7:4

text: ¶ And it came to passe that night, that the word of the LORD came vnto Nathan, saying;


display: 2 Samuel 7:5

text: Goe and tell my seruant Dauid, Thus sayth the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?


display: 2 Samuel 7:6

text: Whereas I haue not dwelt in any house, since the time that I brought vp the children of Israel out of Egypt, euen to this day, but haue walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.


display: 2 Samuel 7:7

text: In all the places wherein I haue walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whome I commanded to feede my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of Cedar?


display: 2 Samuel 7:8

text: Now therefore so shalt thou say vnto my seruant Dauid; Thus sayth the LORD of hostes, I tooke thee from the sheepe-cote, from following the sheepe, to be ruler ouer my people, ouer Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 7:9

text: And I was with thee withersoeuer thou wentest, and haue cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and haue made thee a great name, like vnto the name of the great men that are in the earth.


display: 2 Samuel 7:10

text: (Moreouer I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their owne, and mooue no more: neither shall the children of wickednesse afflict them any more, as beforetime,


display: 2 Samuel 7:11

text: And as since the time that I commanded Iudges to bee ouer my people Israel, and haue caused thee to rest from all thine enemies:) Also the LORD telleth thee, that he will make thee an house.


display: 2 Samuel 7:12

text: ¶ And when thy dayes be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, I will set vp thy seede after thee, which shall proceede out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdome.


display: 2 Samuel 7:13

text: Hee shall build an house for my Name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdome for euer.


display: 2 Samuel 7:14

text: I will be his father, and he shall be my sonne: if hee commit iniquitie, I will chasten him with the rodde of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.


display: 2 Samuel 7:15

text: But my mercie shall not depart away from him, as I tooke it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.


display: 2 Samuel 7:16

text: And thine house, and thy kingdome shall be stablished for euer before thee: thy throne shall be stablished for euer.


display: 2 Samuel 7:17

text: According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speake vnto Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 7:18

text: ¶ Then went king Dauid in, and sate before the LORD, and hee said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?


display: 2 Samuel 7:19

text: And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD: but thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while to come, and is this the maner of man, O Lord GOD?


display: 2 Samuel 7:20

text: And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy seruant.


display: 2 Samuel 7:21

text: For thy words sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy seruant know them.


display: 2 Samuel 7:22

text: Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.


display: 2 Samuel 7:23

text: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, euen like Israel, whom God went to redeeme for a people to himselfe, & to make him a name, and to doe for you great things, and terrible, for thy lande, before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations, and their gods?


display: 2 Samuel 7:24

text: For thou hast confirmed to thy selfe thy people Israel to be a people vnto thee for euer: and thou, LORD art become their God.


display: 2 Samuel 7:25

text: And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy seruant, and concerning his house, establish it for euer, and doe as thou hast said.


display: 2 Samuel 7:26

text: And let thy name bee magnified for euer, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruant Dauid bee established before thee.


display: 2 Samuel 7:27

text: For thou, O LORD of hostes, God of Israel, hast reuealed to thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therfore hath thy seruant found in his heart to pray this prayer vnto thee.


display: 2 Samuel 7:28

text: And now, O Lord GOD, (thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodnesse vnto thy seruant.)


display: 2 Samuel 7:29

text: Therefore now let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may continue for euer before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy seruant be blessed for euer.


display: 2 Samuel 8:1

text: And after this it came to passe, that Dauid smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and Dauid tooke Metheg-Ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.


display: 2 Samuel 8:2

text: And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them downe to the ground: euen with two lines measured he, to put to death, and with one full line to keepe aliue: and so the Moabites became Dauids seruants, and brought gifts.


display: 2 Samuel 8:3

text: ¶ Dauid smote also Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recouer his border at the riuer Euphrates.


display: 2 Samuel 8:4

text: And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen hundred horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen: and Dauid houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them for an hundred charets.


display: 2 Samuel 8:5

text: And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, Dauid slew of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 8:6

text: Then Dauid put garisons in Syria of Damascus: And the Syrians became seruants to Dauid, and brought gifts: and the LORD preserued Dauid whithersoeuer he went.


display: 2 Samuel 8:7

text: And Dauid tooke the shields of gold that were on the seruants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 8:8

text: And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King Dauid tooke exceeding much brasse.


display: 2 Samuel 8:9

text: ¶ When Toi king of Hamath heard that Dauid had smitten all the hoste of Hadadezer,


display: 2 Samuel 8:10

text: Then Toi sent Ioram his sonne vnto king Dauid to salute him, and to blesse him, because hee had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: (for Hadadezer had warres with Toi) and Ioram brought with him vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brasse;


display: 2 Samuel 8:11

text: Which also king Dauid did dedicate vnto the LORD, with the siluer and gold that he had dedicate of all nations which he subdued:


display: 2 Samuel 8:12

text: Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, & of Amalek, and of the spoile of Hadadezer sonne of Rehob king of Zobah.


display: 2 Samuel 8:13

text: And Dauid gate him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteene thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 8:14

text: ¶ And he put garrisons in Edom; thorowout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became Dauids seruants: and the LORD preserued Dauid whithersoeuer he went.


display: 2 Samuel 8:15

text: And Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, and Dauid executed iudgement and iustice vnto all his people.


display: 2 Samuel 8:16

text: And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the host, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Recorder.


display: 2 Samuel 8:17

text: And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, were the Priests, and Seraiah was the scribe.


display: 2 Samuel 8:18

text: And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer both the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and Dauids sonnes were chiefe rulers.


display: 2 Samuel 9:1

text: And Dauid said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindnesse for Ionathans sake?


display: 2 Samuel 9:2

text: And there was of the house of Saul, a seruant whose name was Ziba: and when they had called him vnto Dauid, the king said vnto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy seruant is he.


display: 2 Samuel 9:3

text: And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindnesse of God vnto him? and Ziba said vnto the king, Ionathan hath yet a sonne, which is lame on his feete.


display: 2 Samuel 9:4

text: And the king saide vnto him, Where is hee? and Ziba said vnto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the sonne of Ammiel, in Lodebar.


display: 2 Samuel 9:5

text: ¶ Then king Dauid sent, and fet him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.


display: 2 Samuel 9:6

text: Now when Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, was come vnto Dauid, hee fell on his face, and did reuerence: and Dauid said, Mephibosheth! And he answered, Behold thy seruant.


display: 2 Samuel 9:7

text: ¶ And Dauid saide vnto him, Feare not; for I will surely shew thee kindnesse, for Ionathan thy fathers sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eate bread at my table continually.


display: 2 Samuel 9:8

text: And hee bowed himselfe, and saide, What is thy seruant, that thou shouldest looke vpon such a dead dogge as I am?


display: 2 Samuel 9:9

text: ¶ Then the king called to Ziba Sauls seruant, and said vnto him, I haue giuen vnto thy masters sonne all that pertained to Saul, and to all his house.


display: 2 Samuel 9:10

text: Thou therefore and thy sonnes, and thy seruants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy masters sonne may haue food to eate: but Mephibosheth thy masters sonne shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteene sonnes, and twenty seruants.


display: 2 Samuel 9:11

text: Then saide Ziba vnto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his seruant, so shall thy seruant doe: as for Mephibosheth, said the King, he shall eate at my table, as one of the kings sonnes.


display: 2 Samuel 9:12

text: And Mephibosheth had a yong sonne whose name was Micha: and all that dwelt in the house of Ziba, were seruants vnto Mephibosheth.


display: 2 Samuel 9:13

text: So Mephibosheth dwelt in Ierusalem: for hee did eate continually at the kings table, and was lame on both his feete.


display: 2 Samuel 10:1

text: And it came to passe, after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Samuel 10:2

text: Then said Dauid, I will shewe kindnes vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, as his father shewed kindnes vnto me. And Dauid sent to comfort him by the hand of his seruants, for his father: and Dauids seruants came into the land of the children of Ammon.


display: 2 Samuel 10:3

text: And the princes of the children of Ammon saide vnto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that Dauid doeth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto thee? Hath not Dauid rather sent his seruants vnto thee, to search the citie, and to spie it out, and to ouerthrow it?


display: 2 Samuel 10:4

text: Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued off the one halfe of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, euen to their buttocks, and sent them away.


display: 2 Samuel 10:5

text: When they told it vnto Dauid, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the King saide, Tarie at Iericho vntill your beards be growen, and then returne.


display: 2 Samuel 10:6

text: ¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stanke before Dauid, the children of Ammon sent, and hired the Syrians of Beth-Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twentie thousand footmen, and of king Maacah, a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelue thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 10:7

text: And when Dauid heard of it, he sent Ioab, and all the hoste of the mightie men.


display: 2 Samuel 10:8

text: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battell in aray at the entring in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselues in the field.


display: 2 Samuel 10:9

text: When Ioab saw that the front of the battell was against him, before and behind, he chose of all the choise men of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.


display: 2 Samuel 10:10

text: And the rest of the people he deliuered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in aray against the children of Ammon.


display: 2 Samuel 10:11

text: And he said, If the Syrians bee too strong for me, then thou shalt helpe me: but if the children of Ammon bee too strong for thee, then I will come and helpe thee.


display: 2 Samuel 10:12

text: Be of good courage, and let vs play the men, for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD doe that which seemeth him good.


display: 2 Samuel 10:13

text: And Ioab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, vnto the battell against the Syrians: and they fled before him.


display: 2 Samuel 10:14

text: And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fledde, then fled they also before Abishai, and entred into the citie: so Ioab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 10:15

text: ¶ And when the Syrians sawe that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselues together.


display: 2 Samuel 10:16

text: And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the riuer, and they came to Helam, and Shobach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went before them.


display: 2 Samuel 10:17

text: And when it was told Dauid, he gathered all Israel together, and passed ouer Iordane, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set themselues in aray against Dauid, and fought with him.


display: 2 Samuel 10:18

text: And the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid slew the men of seuen hundred charets of the Syrians, and fourtie thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captaine of their hoste, who died there.


display: 2 Samuel 10:19

text: And when all the kings that were seruants to Hadarezer sawe, that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them: so the Syrians feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.


display: 2 Samuel 11:1

text: And it came to passe, that after the yeere was expired, at the time when kings goe foorth to battell, that Dauid sent Ioab and his seruants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid taried still at Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 11:2

text: ¶ And it came to passe in an euening tide, that Dauid arose from off his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kings house: and from the roofe he saw a woman washing her selfe; and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.


display: 2 Samuel 11:3

text: And Dauid sent and enquired after the woman: and one said, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?


display: 2 Samuel 11:4

text: And Dauid sent messengers, and tooke her, and shee came in vnto him, and he lay with her, ( for she was purified from her vncleannesse) and shee returned vnto her house.


display: 2 Samuel 11:5

text: And the woman conceiued, and sent and tolde Dauid, and said, I am with childe.


display: 2 Samuel 11:6

text: ¶ And Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Uriah to Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 11:7

text: And when Uriah was come vnto him, Dauid demanded of him how Ioab did, and how the people did, and how the warre prospered.


display: 2 Samuel 11:8

text: And Dauid said to Uriah, Goe downe to thy house, and wash thy feete. And Uriah departed out of the Kings house, and there followed him a messe of meat from the king.


display: 2 Samuel 11:9

text: But Uriah slept at the doore of the kings house, with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.


display: 2 Samuel 11:10

text: And when they had tolde Dauid, saying, Uriah went not downe vnto his house, Dauid said vnto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy iourney? why then diddest thou not goe downe vnto thine house?


display: 2 Samuel 11:11

text: And Uriah said vnto Dauid, The Arke, and Israel, and Iudah abide in tents, and my lord Ioab, and the seruants of my lord are encamped in the open fields; shall I then goe into mine house, to eate and to drinke, and to lie with my wife? As thou liuest, and as thy soule liueth, I will not doe this thing.


display: 2 Samuel 11:12

text: And Dauid said to Uriah, Tary here to day also, and to morow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morrow.


display: 2 Samuel 11:13

text: And when Dauid had called him, hee did eate and drinke before him, and he made him drunke: and at euen hee went out to lie on his bed with the seruants of his lord, but went not downe to his house.


display: 2 Samuel 11:14

text: ¶ And it came to passe in the morning, that Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.


display: 2 Samuel 11:15

text: And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set yee Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battel, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.


display: 2 Samuel 11:16

text: And it came to passe when Ioab obserued the citie, that he assigned Uriah vnto a place where hee knewe that valiant men were.


display: 2 Samuel 11:17

text: And the men of the city went out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell some of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Uriah the Hittite died also.


display: 2 Samuel 11:18

text: ¶ Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre:


display: 2 Samuel 11:19

text: And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling the matters of the warre vnto the King;


display: 2 Samuel 11:20

text: And if so be that the kings wrath arise, and hee say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye so nigh vnto the city when yee did fight? Knew yee not that they would shoot from the wall?


display: 2 Samuel 11:21

text: Who smote Abimelech the sonne of Ierubesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? Then say thou, Thy seruant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


display: 2 Samuel 11:22

text: ¶ So the messenger went, and came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.


display: 2 Samuel 11:23

text: And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Surely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, and we were vpon them euen vnto the entring of the gate.


display: 2 Samuel 11:24

text: And the shooters shot from off the wall vpon thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead, and thy seruant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


display: 2 Samuel 11:25

text: Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing displease thee: for the sword deuoureth one as well as another: Make thy battell more strong against the citie, and ouerthrow it; and encourage thou him.


display: 2 Samuel 11:26

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


display: 2 Samuel 11:27

text: And when the mourning was past, Dauid sent, and fet her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but the thing that Dauid had done, displeased the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 12:1

text: And the LORD sent Nathan vnto Dauid: and he came vnto him, and said vnto him, There were two men in one citie; the one rich, and the other poore.


display: 2 Samuel 12:2

text: The rich man had exceeding many flockes and herds.


display: 2 Samuel 12:3

text: But the poore man had nothing saue one litle ewe lambe, which he had bought and nourished vp: and it grew vp together with him, and with his children, it did eate of his owne meate, and dranke of his owne cup, and lay in his bosome, and was vnto him as a daughter.


display: 2 Samuel 12:4

text: And there came a traueller vnto the rich man, and he spared to take of his owne flocke, and of his owne herd, to dresse for the wayfaring man that was come vnto him, but tooke the poore mans lambe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.


display: 2 Samuel 12:5

text: And Dauids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die.


display: 2 Samuel 12:6

text: And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie.


display: 2 Samuel 12:7

text: ¶ And Nathan said to Dauid, Thou art the man: thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king ouer Israel, and I deliuered thee out of the hand of Saul,


display: 2 Samuel 12:8

text: And I gaue thee thy Masters house, and thy Masters wiues into thy bosome, and gaue thee the house of Israel and of Iudah, and if that had bene too litle, I would moreouer haue giuen vnto thee such and such things.


display: 2 Samuel 12:9

text: Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the LORD, to doe euill in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slaine him with the sword of the children of Ammon.


display: 2 Samuel 12:10

text: Now therefore the sword shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.


display: 2 Samuel 12:11

text: Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise vp euill against thee out of thine owne house, and I will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this Sunne.


display: 2 Samuel 12:12

text: For thou diddest it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the Sunne.


display: 2 Samuel 12:13

text: And Dauid saide vnto Nathan, I haue sinned against the LORD. And Nathan saide vnto Dauid, The LORD also hath put away thy sinne, thou shalt not die.


display: 2 Samuel 12:14

text: Howbeit, because by this deede thou hast giuen great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the childe also that is borne vnto thee, shall surely die.


display: 2 Samuel 12:15

text: ¶ And Nathan departed vnto his house: and the LORD strake the childe that Uriahs wife bare vnto Dauid, and it was very sicke.


display: 2 Samuel 12:16

text: Dauid therfore besought God for the childe, and Dauid fasted, and went in, and lay all night vpon the earth.


display: 2 Samuel 12:17

text: And the Elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him vp from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eate bread with them.


display: 2 Samuel 12:18

text: And it came to passe on the seuenth day, that the childe died: and the seruants of Dauid feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they saide, Behold, while the childe was yet aliue, we spake vnto him, and he would not hearken vnto our voice: how will he then vexe himselfe, if we tell him that the childe is dead?


display: 2 Samuel 12:19

text: But when Dauid saw that his seruants whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid said vnto his seruants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is dead.


display: 2 Samuel 12:20

text: Then Dauid arose from the earth and washed, and anointed himselfe, and changed his apparell, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then hee came to his owne house, and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eate.


display: 2 Samuel 12:21

text: Then said his seruants vnto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weepe for the childe, while it was aliue, but when the childe was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.


display: 2 Samuel 12:22

text: And he said, While the child was yet aliue, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell, whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may liue?


display: 2 Samuel 12:23

text: But now hee is dead, Wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him backe againe? I shall goe to him, but he shall not returne to me.


display: 2 Samuel 12:24

text: ¶ And Dauid comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in vnto her, and lay with her: and she bare a sonne, and he called his name Solomon, and the LORD loued him.


display: 2 Samuel 12:25

text: And hee sent by the hand of Nathan the Prophet, and hee called his name Iedidiah, because of the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 12:26

text: ¶ And Ioab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and tooke the royall citie.


display: 2 Samuel 12:27

text: And Ioab sent messengers to Dauid, and said, I haue fought against Rabbah, and haue taken the citie of waters.


display: 2 Samuel 12:28

text: Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together, and encampe against the citie, and take it: lest I take the citie, and it be called after my name.


display: 2 Samuel 12:29

text: And Dauid gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and tooke it.


display: 2 Samuel 12:30

text: And he tooke their kings crowne from off his head (the weight whereof was a talent of gold, with the precious stones) and it was set on Dauids head, and he brought forth the spoile of the citie in great abundance.


display: 2 Samuel 12:31

text: And he brought foorth the people that were therein, and put them vnder sawes, and vnder harrowes of yron, and vnder axes of yron, and made them passe through the bricke-kilne: And thus did he vnto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So Dauid and all the people returned vnto Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 13:1

text: And it came to passe after this, that Absalom the sonne of Dauid had a faire sister, whose name was Tamar: and Amnon the sonne of Dauid loued her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:2

text: And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sicke for his sister Tamar: for she was a virgine, and Amnon thought it hard for him to doe any thing to her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:3

text: But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Ionadab, the sonne of Shimeah, Dauids brother: and Ionadab was a very subtill man.


display: 2 Samuel 13:4

text: And he saide vnto him, Why art thou, being the Kings sonne, leane from day to day? Wilt thou not tel me? and Amnon said vnto him, I loue Tamar my brother Absaloms sister.


display: 2 Samuel 13:5

text: And Ionadab said vnto him, Lay thee downe on thy bed, and make thy selfe sicke: and when thy father commeth to see thee, say vnto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and giue me meat, and dresse the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eate it at her hand.


display: 2 Samuel 13:6

text: ¶ So Amnon lay downe, and made himselfe sicke: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said vnto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, & make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.


display: 2 Samuel 13:7

text: Then Dauid sent home to Tamar, saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house, and dresse him meat.


display: 2 Samuel 13:8

text: So Tamar went to her brother Amnons house (and hee was laide downe) and she tooke flowre, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.


display: 2 Samuel 13:9

text: And she tooke a pan, and powred them out before him, but hee refused to eate: and Amnon said, Haue out all men from mee: And they went out euery man from him.


display: 2 Samuel 13:10

text: And Amnon saide vnto Tamar, Bring the meate into the chamber, that I may eate of thine hand. And Tamar tooke the cakes which shee had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.


display: 2 Samuel 13:11

text: And when shee had brought them vnto him to eate, hee tooke hold of her, and said vnto her, Come lye with mee, my sister.


display: 2 Samuel 13:12

text: And she answered him, Nay, my brother, doe not force me: for no such thing ought to bee done in Israel; doe not thou this folly.


display: 2 Samuel 13:13

text: And I, whither shall I cause my shame to goe? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fooles in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, speake vnto the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.


display: 2 Samuel 13:14

text: Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:15

text: ¶ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred wherwith he hated her, was greater then the loue wherewith hee had loued her: And Amnon said vnto her, Arise, be gone.


display: 2 Samuel 13:16

text: And she said vnto him, There is no cause: this euill in sending me away, is greater then the other that thou diddest vnto me: But he would not hearken vnto her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:17

text: Then hee called his seruant that ministred vnto him, and said, Put now this woman out from mee, and bolt the doore after her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:18

text: And shee had a garment of diuers colours vpon her: for with such robes were the Kings daughters, that were virgins, apparelled. Then his seruant brought her out, and bolted the doore after her.


display: 2 Samuel 13:19

text: ¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of diuers colours that was on her, and layde her hand on her head, and went on, crying.


display: 2 Samuel 13:20

text: And Absalom her brother sayde vnto her, Hath Amnon thy brother beene with thee? But holde nowe thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother, regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absaloms house.


display: 2 Samuel 13:21

text: ¶ But when King Dauid heard of all these things, he was very wroth.


display: 2 Samuel 13:22

text: And Absalom spake vnto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.


display: 2 Samuel 13:23

text: ¶ And it came to passe after two full yeeres, that Absalom had sheepeshearers in Baal-Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom inuited all the kings sonnes.


display: 2 Samuel 13:24

text: And Absalom came to the King, and said, Behold now, thy seruant hath sheepe-shearers, Let the King, I beseech thee, and his seruants, goe with thy seruant.


display: 2 Samuel 13:25

text: And the King sayde to Absalom, Nay, my sonne, let vs not all now goe, lest we be chargeable vnto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not goe, but blessed him.


display: 2 Samuel 13:26

text: Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon goe with vs. And the King said vnto him, Why should he goe with thee?


display: 2 Samuel 13:27

text: But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the kings sonnes goe with him.


display: 2 Samuel 13:28

text: ¶ Now Absalom had commanded his seruants, saying, Marke yee now when Amnons heart is merrie with wine, and when I say vnto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him, feare not: haue not I commanded you? be couragious, and be valiant.


display: 2 Samuel 13:29

text: And the seruants of Absalom did vnto Amnon as Absalom had commanded: then all the Kings sonnes arose, and euery man gate him vp vpon his mule, and fled.


display: 2 Samuel 13:30

text: ¶ And it came to passe while they were in the way, that tidings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine all the Kings sonnes, and there is not one of them left.


display: 2 Samuel 13:31

text: Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth: and all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.


display: 2 Samuel 13:32

text: And Ionadab the sonne of Shimeah Dauids brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they haue slaine all the yong men the Kings sonnes; for Amnon onely is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath beene determined, from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.


display: 2 Samuel 13:33

text: Now therefore let not my lord the King take the thing to his heart, to thinke that all the Kings sonnes are dead: for Amnon onely is dead.


display: 2 Samuel 13:34

text: But Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.


display: 2 Samuel 13:35

text: And Ionadab said vnto the king, Behold, the kings sonnes come: as thy seruant said, so it is.


display: 2 Samuel 13:36

text: And it came to passe assoone as hee had made an ende of speaking, that behold, the kings sonnes came, and lift vp their voice, and wept; and the King also and all his seruants wept very sore.


display: 2 Samuel 13:37

text: ¶ But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the sonne of Ammihud king of Geshur: and Dauid mourned for his sonne euery day.


display: 2 Samuel 13:38

text: So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three yeeres.


display: 2 Samuel 13:39

text: And the soule of king Dauid longed to goe foorth vnto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.


display: 2 Samuel 14:1

text: Now Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, perceiued that the kings heart was toward Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 14:2

text: And Ioab sent to Tekoah, and fetcht thence a wise woman, and said vnto her, I pray thee, faine thy selfe to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thy selfe with oile, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:


display: 2 Samuel 14:3

text: And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto him: so Ioab put the words in her mouth.


display: 2 Samuel 14:4

text: ¶ And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, shee fell on her face to the ground, and did obeysance, and said, Helpe, O king.


display: 2 Samuel 14:5

text: And the king said vnto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.


display: 2 Samuel 14:6

text: And thy handmayd had two sonnes, and they two stroue together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.


display: 2 Samuel 14:7

text: And behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmayd, and they said, Deliuer him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew, and we will destroy the heire also: and so they shall quench my cole which is left, and shall not leaue to my husband neither name nor remainder vpon the earth.


display: 2 Samuel 14:8

text: And the king saide vnto the woman, Goe to thine house, and I will giue charge concerning thee.


display: 2 Samuel 14:9

text: And the woman of Tekoah said vnto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquitie bee on mee, and on my fathers house: and the king and his throne bee guiltlesse.


display: 2 Samuel 14:10

text: And the king said, Whosoeuer saith ought vnto thee, bring him to mee, and he shall not touch thee any more.


display: 2 Samuel 14:11

text: Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the reuengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my sonne. And he said, As the LORD liueth, there shall not one haire of thy sonne fall to the earth.


display: 2 Samuel 14:12

text: Then the woman said, Let thine handmayd, I pray thee, speake one word vnto my lord the king. And hee said, Say on.


display: 2 Samuel 14:13

text: And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? For the king doeth speake this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doeth not fetch home againe his banished.


display: 2 Samuel 14:14

text: For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot bee gathered vp againe: neither doeth God respect any person, yet doeth he deuise meanes, that his banished bee not expelled from him.


display: 2 Samuel 14:15

text: Now therefore that I am come to speake of this thing vnto my lord the king, it is because the people haue made me afraid: and thy handmayd said, I will now speake vnto the king; it may bee that the king will performe the request of his handmayd.


display: 2 Samuel 14:16

text: For the king wil heare, to deliuer his handmayd out of the hand of the man that would destroy mee, and my sonne together out of the inheritance of God:


display: 2 Samuel 14:17

text: Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an Angel of God, so is my lord the king to discerne good and bad: therfore the LORD thy God will be with thee.


display: 2 Samuel 14:18

text: Then the king answered and said vnto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall aske thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speake.


display: 2 Samuel 14:19

text: And the king said, Is not the hand of Ioab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soule liueth, my lord the king, none can turne to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy seruant Ioab, hee bade me, and he put all these wordes in the mouth of thine handmaid:


display: 2 Samuel 14:20

text: To fetch about this forme of speech hath thy seruant Ioab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisedome of an Angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.


display: 2 Samuel 14:21

text: ¶ And the king said vnto Ioab, Behold now, I haue done this thing: goe therefore, bring the yong man Absalom againe.


display: 2 Samuel 14:22

text: And Ioab fell to the ground on his face, & bowed himselfe, and thanked the king: and Ioab said, To day thy seruant knoweth that I haue found grace in thy sight, my lord O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his seruant.


display: 2 Samuel 14:23

text: So Ioab arose, and went to Geshur, & brought Absalom to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 14:24

text: And the king said, Let him turne to his owne house, & let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his owne house, and sawe not the kings face.