2Samuel:8-11
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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 .
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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 .
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David smote also Hadadezer ,
the son of Rehob ,
king of Zobah ,
as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates .
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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 .
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And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah ,
David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men .
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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 .
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And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer ,
and brought them to Jerusalem .
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And from Betah ,
and from Berothai ,
cities of Hadadezer ,
king David took exceeding much brass .
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When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer ,
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Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David ,
to salute him ,
and to bless him ,
because he had fought against Hadadezer ,
and smitten him :
for Hadadezer had wars with Toi .
And Joram brought with him vessels of silver ,
and vessels of gold ,
and vessels of brass :
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Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD ,
with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued ;
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Of Syria ,
and of Moab ,
and of the children of Ammon ,
and of the Philistines ,
and of Amalek ,
and of the spoil of Hadadezer ,
son of Rehob ,
king of Zobah .
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And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt ,
being eighteen thousand men .
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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 .
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And David reigned over all Israel ;
and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people .
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And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host ;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder ;
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And Zadok the son of Ahitub ,
and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar ,
were the priests ;
and Seraiah was the scribe ;
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites ;
and David '
s sons were chief rulers .
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And David said ,
Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul ,
that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan '
s sake ?
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And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba .
And when they had called him unto David ,
the king said unto him ,
Art thou Ziba ?
And he said ,
Thy servant is he .
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And the king said ,
Is there not yet any of the house of Saul ,
that I may shew the kindness of God unto him ?
And Ziba said unto the king ,
Jonathan hath yet a son ,
which is lame on his feet .
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And the king said unto him ,
Where is he ?
And Ziba said unto the king ,
Behold ,
he is in the house of Machir ,
the son of Ammiel ,
in Lodebar .
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Then king David sent ,
and fetched him out of the house of Machir ,
the son of Ammiel ,
from Lodebar .
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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 !
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And David said unto him ,
Fear not :
for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father '
s sake ,
and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father ;
and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually .
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And he bowed himself ,
and said ,
What is thy servant ,
that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am ?
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Then the king called to Ziba ,
Saul '
s servant ,
and said unto him ,
I have given unto thy master '
s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house .
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Thou therefore ,
and thy sons ,
and thy servants ,
shall till the land for him ,
and thou shalt bring in the fruits ,
that thy master '
s son may have food to eat :
but Mephibosheth thy master '
s son shall eat bread alway at my table .
Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants .
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Then said Ziba unto the king ,
According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant ,
so shall thy servant do .
As for Mephibosheth ,
said the king ,
he shall eat at my table ,
as one of the king '
s sons .
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And Mephibosheth had a young son ,
whose name was Micha .
And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth .
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So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem :
for he did eat continually at the king '
s table ;
and was lame on both his feet .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that the king of the children of Ammon died ,
and Hanun his son reigned in his stead .
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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 .
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And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord ,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father ,
that he hath sent comforters unto thee ?
hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee ,
to search the city ,
and to spy it out ,
and to overthrow it ?
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Wherefore Hanun took David '
s servants ,
and shaved off the one half of their beards ,
and cut off their garments in the middle ,
even to their buttocks ,
and sent them away .
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When they told it unto David ,
he sent to meet them ,
because the men were greatly ashamed :
and the king said ,
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown ,
and then return .
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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David ,
the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob ,
and the Syrians of Zoba ,
twenty thousand footmen ,
and of king Maacah a thousand men ,
and of Ishtob twelve thousand men .
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And when David heard of it ,
he sent Joab ,
and all the host of the mighty men .
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And the children of Ammon came out ,
and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate :
and the Syrians of Zoba ,
and of Rehob ,
and Ishtob ,
and Maacah ,
were by themselves in the field .
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When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind ,
he chose of all the choice men of Israel ,
and put them in array against the Syrians :
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And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother ,
that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon .
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And he said ,
If the Syrians be too strong for me ,
then thou shalt help me :
but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee ,
then I will come and help thee .
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Be of good courage ,
and let us play the men for our people ,
and for the cities of our God :
and the LORD do that which seemeth him good .
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And Joab drew nigh ,
and the people that were with him ,
unto the battle against the Syrians :
and they fled before him .
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And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled ,
then fled they also before Abishai ,
and entered into the city .
So Joab returned from the children of Ammon ,
and came to Jerusalem .
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And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel ,
they gathered themselves together .
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And Hadarezer sent ,
and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river :
and they came to Helam ;
and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them .
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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 .
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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 .
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And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel ,
they made peace with Israel ,
and served them .
So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more .
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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 .
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And it came to pass in an eveningtide ,
that David arose from off his bed ,
and walked upon the roof of the king '
s house :
and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself ;
and the woman was very beautiful to look upon .
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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 ?
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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 .
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And the woman conceived ,
and sent and told David ,
and said ,
I am with child .
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And David sent to Joab ,
saying ,
Send me Uriah the Hittite .
And Joab sent Uriah to David .
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And when Uriah was come unto him ,
David demanded of him how Joab did ,
and how the people did ,
and how the war prospered .
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And David said to Uriah ,
Go down to thy house ,
and wash thy feet .
And Uriah departed out of the king '
s house ,
and there followed him a mess of meat from the king .
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But Uriah slept at the door of the king '
s house with all the servants of his lord ,
and went not down to his house .
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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 ?
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And Uriah said unto David ,
The ark ,
and Israel ,
and Judah ,
abide in tents ;
and my lord Joab ,
and the servants of my lord ,
are encamped in the open fields ;
shall I then go into mine house ,
to eat and to drink ,
and to lie with my wife ?
as thou livest ,
and as thy soul liveth ,
I will not do this thing .
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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 .
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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 .
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
that David wrote a letter to Joab ,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah .
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And he wrote in the letter ,
saying ,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle ,
and retire ye from him ,
that he may be smitten ,
and die .
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And it came to pass ,
when Joab observed the city ,
that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were .
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And the men of the city went out ,
and fought with Joab :
and there fell some of the people of the servants of David ;
and Uriah the Hittite died also .
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Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war ;
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And charged the messenger ,
saying ,
When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king ,
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And if so be that the king '
s wrath arise ,
and he say unto thee ,
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight ?
knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall ?
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ?
did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall ,
that he died in Thebez ?
why went ye nigh the wall ?
then say thou ,
Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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So the messenger went ,
and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for .
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And the messenger said unto David ,
Surely the men prevailed against us ,
and came out unto us into the field ,
and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate .
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And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants ;
and some of the king '
s servants be dead ,
and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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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 .
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead ,
she mourned for her husband .
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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 .
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And the LORD sent Nathan unto David .
And he came unto him ,
and said unto him ,
There were two men in one city ;
the one rich ,
and the other poor .
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