Study Desk

For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Yahweh made the heavens.

Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before Yahweh; For he comes to judge the earth.

O give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; For his loving-kindness [endures] forever.

and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.

for I haven't dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another].

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the sons of wickedness waste them anymore, as at the first,

And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; but you have spoken of your slave's house for a great while to come, and you see me according to the rank of man placed high, O Yahweh God.

What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your slave? for you know your slave.

O Yahweh, for your slave's sake, and according to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.

And what other nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make yourself a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt?

For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

For you, O my God, have revealed to your slave that you will build him a house: therefore your slave has found [in his heart] to pray before you.

and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your slave, that it may continue forever before you: for you, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.

And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.

he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.

Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards are grown, and then return.

And he said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the sons of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

Be strong and we shall be strengthened for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh shall do that which is good in his eyes.

But Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them; for the king's word was disgusting to Joab.