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For who is God but Adonai , and who is a Rock but our God?

"They looked, but there was no one to help, even to Adonai , but he didn't answer.

"But the ungodly are like thorn bushes to be pushed aside, every one of them. They cannot be taken in one's hand;

He stood firm and attacked the P'lishtim until his hand went into spasm, so that he couldn't let go of his sword. Adonai accomplished a great victory that day; but the people didn't return until he had finished, and then only to plunder the bodies of the dead.

But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, killing the P'lishtim; and Adonai brought about a great victory.

The three warrior-heroes broke through the army of the P'lishtim, drew water from the well by the gate of Beit-Lechem, took it and brought it to David. But he wouldn't drink it. Instead, he poured it out to Adonai

He had more honor than the thirty, but he did not achieve the status of the first three. David put him in command of his personal guard.

Yo'av said to the king, "May Adonai your God add to the people a hundredfold, no matter how many there are; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this?"

But after he had taken the census, David was conscience-stricken. David said to Adonai , "I have greatly sinned in what I have done. But now, Adonai , please! Put aside your servant's sin, for I have done a very foolish thing."

But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, Adonai changed his mind about causing such distress and said to the angel destroying the people, "Enough! Now withdraw your hand." The angel of Adonai was at the threshing-floor of Aravnah the Y'vusi.

David spoke to Adonai when he saw the angel striking the people; he said, "Here, I have sinned, I have done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Please! Let your hand be against me and against my father's family!"

But the king said to Aravnah, "No; I insist on buying it from you at a price. I refuse to offer to Adonai my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for one-and-a-quarter pounds of silver shekels.

The girl was very beautiful and became a companion for the king. She took care of him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.

But Tzadok the cohen, B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada, Natan the prophet, Shim‘i, Re‘i and David's elite guard were not on Adoniyah's side.

but he did not summon Natan the prophet, B'nayah, the elite guard or Shlomo his brother.

But now, here is Adoniyah ruling as king; and you, my lord the king, don't know anything about it.

He has killed oxen, fattened calves and sheep in great numbers; and he has summoned all the sons of the king, Evyatar the cohen and Yo'av the commander of the army; but he didn't summon Shlomo your servant.

But he didn't summon me your servant, or Tzadok the cohen, or B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada or your servant Shlomo.

Adoniyah and all his guests heard it while they were finishing their meal; but it was Yo'av who, when he heard the blast on the shofar, asked, "That noise — what's the meaning of this uproar in the city?"

Shlomo said, "If he will demonstrate that he is a worthy man, not a hair of his will fall to the earth. But if he is found making trouble, he will die."