RTH 4:22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
1SA 16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down
till he come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise,
anoint him: for this is he.
18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son
of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant
man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the
LORD is with him.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly;
and he became his armourbearer.
23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that
David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and
was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the
trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the
battle.
22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage,
and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines,
and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.
26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach
from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy
the armies of the living God?
31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them
before Saul: and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy
servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine
to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his
youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and
there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his
mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote
him, and slew him.
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the
living God.
37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the
lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of
this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that
bare the shield went before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him:
for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and
with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD
of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh
to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the
Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang
it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his
forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword,
and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head
therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took
him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his
hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David
answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul,
that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his
father's house.
5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself
wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the
sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of
Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and
with instruments of musick.
7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath
slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said,
They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed
but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came
upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played
with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the
wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in
before them.
17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give
thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.
For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the
Philistines be upon him.
18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's
family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have
been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to
wife.
20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the
thing pleased him.
21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and
that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly,
and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love
thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David
said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing
that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any
dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the
king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the
Philistines.
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the
Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they
gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law.
And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's
enemy continually.
30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass,
after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the
servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David.
2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told
David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray
thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place,
and hide thyself:
4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto
him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he
hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward
very good:
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the
LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And
Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times
past.
8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house
with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but
he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the
wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up
to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him
all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin
before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I
have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this,
lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
there is but a step between me and death.
5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I
should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may
hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of
me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice
there for all the family.
15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever:
no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the
face of the earth.
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the
LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he
loved him as he loved his own soul.
24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the
king sat him down to eat meat.
27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the
month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son,
Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to
day?
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to
Bethlehem:
35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the
matter.
41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the
south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times:
and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David
exceeded.
42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn
both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and
thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed:
and Jonathan went into the city.
21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was
afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and
no man with thee?
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a
business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business
whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have
appointed my servants to such and such a place.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish
the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of
the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of
Achish the king of Gath.
22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and
when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down
thither to him.
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and
get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the
forest of Hareth.
6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with
him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in
his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite
was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of
all the persons of thy father's house.
23:2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite
these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the
Philistines, and save Keilah.
3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how
much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and
said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into
thine hand.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines,
and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So
David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to
besiege David and his men.
9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he
said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard
that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the
hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and
departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was
told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a
mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God
delivered him not into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in
the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and
strengthened his hand in God.
17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall
not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto
thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men
were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on
that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of
Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take
them.
29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went
to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul
went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of
the cave.
4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD
said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that
thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose,
and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he
had cut off Saul's skirt.
7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to
rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after
Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David
stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying,
Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast
rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men
gat them up unto the hold.
25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and
lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and
went down to the wilderness of Paran.
4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get
you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they
girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and
there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by
the stuff.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow
hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained
unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all
that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which
sent thee this day to meet me:
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said
unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy
voice, and have accepted thy person.
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD,
that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath
kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of
Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take
her to him to wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his
wives.
44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son
of Laish, which was of Gallim.
26:3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon,
by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came
after him into the wilderness.
4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in
very deed.
5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David
beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of
his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about
him.
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai
the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to
Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay
sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his
bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth
his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him;
or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the
LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his
bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and
they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for
they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon
them.
13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill
afar off; a great space being between them:
14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying,
Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that
criest to the king?
15 And David 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.
17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David?
And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of
the young men come over and fetch it.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both
do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way,
and Saul returned to his place.
27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand
of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape
into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me
any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were
with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his
household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let
them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there:
for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a
full year and four months.
8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the
Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants
of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took
away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the
apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said,
Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and
against the south of the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath,
saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be
his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here?
And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the
servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or
these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto
this day?
5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,
Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth,
thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the
host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day
of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee
not.
8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou
found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I
may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my
sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines
have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return
into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned
with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken
captives.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and
wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him,
because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and
for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee,
bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop?
shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely
overtake them, and without fail recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came
to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode
behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou?
And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my
master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he
said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me
into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the
next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men,
which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David
rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither
sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to
them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before
those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they
could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook
Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were
with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the
LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that
came against us into our hand.
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of
Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil
of the enemies of the LORD;
2SA 1:3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto
him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And
he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the
people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead
also.
5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that
Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all
the men that were with him:
13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And
he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth
thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon
him. And he smote him that he died.
16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath
testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan
his son:
2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD,
saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said
unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto
Hebron.
2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his
household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the
house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead
were they that buried Saul.
5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto
them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto
your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was
seven years and six months.
3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of
David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed
weaker and weaker.
2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and
the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah
the son of Abital;
5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David
in Hebron.
14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me
my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines.
18 Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand
of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David
made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner,
which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are
guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend
your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king
David himself followed the bier.
35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was
yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste
bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off
their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But
they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner
in Hebron.
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in
Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with
him.
12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel,
and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
14 And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem;
Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over
Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it,
and went down to the hold.
25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the
Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
6:1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty
thousand.
2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from
Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is
called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the
cherubims.
5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all
manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries,
and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah:
and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark
of the LORD come to me?
10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of
David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of
Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So
David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into
the city of David with gladness.
14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was
girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD
with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in
the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and
peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me
before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the
people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own
sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I
be had in honour.
8:1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and
subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to
the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one
full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and
brought gifts.
3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went
to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but
reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became
servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took
exceeding much brass.
11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and
gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians
in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and
all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and
justice unto all his people.
9:6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come
unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said,
Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash,
as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the
hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon.
7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty
men.
17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed
over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array
against David, and fought with him.
18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven
hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote
Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when
kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him,
and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged
Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and
he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she
returned unto her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with
child.
6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent
Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did,
and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his
house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then
didst thou not go down unto thine house?
12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will
let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he
made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants
of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let
not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as
another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it:
and encourage thou him.
27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his
house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that
David had done displeased the LORD.
12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to
Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely
die:
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan
said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went
in, and lay all night upon the earth.
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that
the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child
dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and
changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped:
then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before
him, and he did eat.
24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay
with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD
loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name
Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and
fought against it, and took it.
30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof
was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's
head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under
saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass
through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children
of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
15:14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at
Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from
Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil
upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed
over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went
up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that
was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they
went up.
31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with
Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of
Ahithophel into foolishness.
33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a
burden unto me:
16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of
the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he
came forth, and cursed still as he came.
6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and
all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his
left.
11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son,
which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this
Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden
him.
13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the
hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at
him, and cast dust.
17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they
passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that
was not gone over Jordan.
24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all
the men of Israel with him.
18:1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.
24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the
roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold a man running alone.
19:13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God
do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me
continually in the room of Joab.
22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death
this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us
more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after
him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and
wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of
the LORD?
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of
Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had
slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and
David waxed faint.
22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that
the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of
the hand of Saul:
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said,
and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob,
and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my
salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was
then in Bethlehem.
15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and
drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it,
and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but
poured it out unto the LORD.
23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the
first three. And David set him over his guard.
24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people.
And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done:
and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for
I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into
the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into
the hand of man.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the
people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these
sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and
against my father's house.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded.
25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and
the plague was stayed from Israel.
1KI 1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him
with clothes, but he gat no heat.
43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David
hath made Solomon king.
2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
Solomon his son, saying,
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set
me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he
promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto
thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time
put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David
my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father
was afflicted.
32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon
two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my
father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of
the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of
Judah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the
head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his
house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which
thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the
LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be
established before the LORD for ever.
5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram
was ever a lover of David.
1CH 9:22 All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two
hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their
villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the
Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and
captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of
David.
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab
repaired the rest of the city.
9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.
16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then
at Bethlehem.
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water
out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and
brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to
the LORD.
25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the
first three: and David set him over his guard.
12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If
ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you:
but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in
mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he
said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace
be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then
David received them, and made them captains of the band.
13:1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and
with every leader.
2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto
you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our
brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with
them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs,
that they may gather themselves unto us:
5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto
the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim,
which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that
dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and
with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and
with cymbals, and with trumpets.
11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza:
wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark
of God home to me?
13 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but
carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
15:1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place
for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for
them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him
for ever.
3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren
to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and
cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands,
went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of
Obededom with joy.
16:2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a
loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of
the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and
his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work
required:
43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned
to bless his house.
17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the
covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for
thou knowest thy servant.
18:14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice
among all his people.
19:2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash,
because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to
comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou
that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee?
are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to
spy out the land?
8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty
men.
17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over
Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So
when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought
with him.
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven
thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and
killed Shophach the captain of the host.
20:8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants.
21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number
Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number
Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that
I may know it.
8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this
thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into
the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall
into the hand of man.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand
between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand
stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were
clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be
numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for
these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my
God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they
should be plagued.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of
the LORD.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of
the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor,
that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for
the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the
full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer
burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by
weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered
him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid
because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
23:1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king
over Israel.
5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD
with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely,
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty
years old and above:
24:3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and
Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their
service.
25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service
of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy
with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the
workmen according to their service was:
28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of
the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper
chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of
the mercy seat,
19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his
hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and
do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast
finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
29:10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and
David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and
ever.
20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God.
And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed
down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years
reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and
Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
PSA 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine
enemies.
7:1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that
persecute me, and deliver me:
11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to
your mountain?
12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from
among the children of men.
13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou
hide thy face from me?
15:1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy
hill?
16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer,
that goeth not out of feigned lips.
18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast
made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve
me.
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of
Jacob defend thee;
21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice!
22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from
helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted
also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is
the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and
answer me.
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face,
LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou
hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine
enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses
are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in
the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if
thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
29:1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
strength.
30:1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not
made my foes to rejoice over me.
31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver
me in thy righteousness.
32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be
in my mouth.
35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against
them that fight against me.
37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I
will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard
my cry.
41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in
time of trouble.
42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after
thee, O God.
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according
unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of
God endureth continually.
54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication.
56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting
daily oppresseth me.
57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth
in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these
calamities be overpast.
58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
uprightly, O ye sons of men?
59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise
up against me.
60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for
thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water
is;
64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the
enemy.
66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
70:1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
108:1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my
glory.
109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
111:1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in
the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the
LORD.
131:1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I
exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
132:11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it;
Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall
teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent
man;
141:1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice,
when I cry unto thee.
142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did
I make my supplication.
143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and
my fingers to fight:
145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for
ever and ever.
MAT 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he
was an hungred, and they that were with him;
4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which
was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but
only for the priests?
ACT 2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always
before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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