2Samuel:4-6

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* And when Saul 's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron , his hands were feeble , and all the Israelites were troubled . * And Saul 's son had two men that were captains of bands : the name of the one was Baanah , and the name of the other Rechab , the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite , of the children of Benjamin : (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin : * And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim , and were sojourners there until this day .) * And Jonathan , Saul 's son , had a son that was lame of his feet . He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel , and his nurse took him up , and fled : and it came to pass , as she made haste to flee , that he fell , and became lame . And his name was Mephibosheth . * And the sons 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 noon . * And they came thither into the midst of the house , as though they would have fetched wheat ; and they smote him under the fifth rib : and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped . * For when they came into the house , he lay on his bed in his bedchamber , and they smote him , and slew him , and beheaded him , and took his head , and gat them away through the plain all night . * And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron , and said to the king , Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy , which sought thy life ; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul , and of his seed . * 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 , * When one told me , saying , Behold , Saul is dead , thinking to have brought good tidings , I took hold of him , and slew him in Ziklag , who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings : * How much more , when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed ? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand , and take you away from the earth ? * 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 . * Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron , and spake , saying , Behold , we are thy bone and thy flesh . * Also in time past , when Saul was king over us , thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel : and the LORD said to thee , Thou shalt feed my people Israel , and thou shalt be a captain over Israel . * So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron ; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD : and they anointed David king over Israel . * David was thirty years old when he began to reign , and he reigned forty years . * 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 . * And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites , the inhabitants of the land : which spake unto David , saying , Except thou take away the blind and the lame , thou shalt not come in hither : thinking , David cannot come in hither . * Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion : the same is the city of David . * And David said on that day , Whosoever getteth up to the gutter , and smiteth the Jebusites , and the lame and the blind , that are hated of David 's soul , he shall be chief and captain . Wherefore they said , The blind and the lame shall not come into the house . * So David dwelt in the fort , and called it the city of David . And David built round about from Millo and inward . * And David went on , and grew great , and the LORD God of hosts was with him . * And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David , and cedar trees , and carpenters , and masons : and they built David an house . * 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 . * And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem , after he was come from Hebron : and there were yet sons and daughters born to David . * And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem ; Shammua , and Shobab , and Nathan , and Solomon , * Ibhar also , and Elishua , and Nepheg , and Japhia , * And Elishama , and Eliada , and Eliphalet . * 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 . * The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . * And David enquired of the LORD , saying , Shall I go up to the Philistines ? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand ? And the LORD said unto David , Go up : for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand . * And David came to Baalperazim , and David smote them there , and said , The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me , as the breach of waters . Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim . * And there they left their images , and David and his men burned them . * And the Philistines came up yet again , and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . * And when David enquired of the LORD , he said , Thou shalt not go up ; but fetch a compass behind them , and come upon them over against the mulberry trees . * And let it be , when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees , that then thou shalt bestir thyself : for then shall the LORD go out before thee , to smite the host of the Philistines . * And David did so , as the LORD had commanded him ; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer . * Again , David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel , thirty thousand . * 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 . * And they set the ark of God upon a new cart , and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah : and Uzzah and Ahio , the sons of Abinadab , drave the new cart . * And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah , accompanying the ark of God : and Ahio went before the ark . * 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 . * And when they came to Nachon 's threshingfloor , Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God , and took hold of it ; for the oxen shook it . * And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah ; and God smote him there for his error ; and there he died by the ark of God . * 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 . * And David was afraid of the LORD that day , and said , How shall the ark of the LORD come to me ? * 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 . * And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months : and the LORD blessed Obededom , and all his household . * 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 . * And it was so , that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces , he sacrificed oxen and fatlings . * And David danced before the LORD with all his might ; and David was girded with a linen ephod . * So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting , and with the sound of the trumpet . * And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David , Michal Saul 's daughter looked through a window , and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD ; and she despised him in her heart . * 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 . * 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 . * And he dealt among all the people , even among the whole multitude of Israel , as well to the women as men , to every one a cake of bread , and a good piece of flesh , and a flagon of wine . So all the people departed every one to his house . * Then David returned to bless his household . And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David , and said , How glorious was the king of Israel to day , who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants , as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself ! * 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 . * 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 . * Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death . * And it came to pass , when the king sat in his house , and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies ;

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