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And David said on that day, "Whoever would strike down the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, through the water tunnel." Therefore they say, "The blind or the lame shall not come into the house."

So David came to Baal-perazim, and there David struck them down; and he said, "Yahweh has broken through my enemies before me, like the breakthrough of waters." Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim.

So David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Yahweh, over Israel; therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

For You, O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave, saying, ‘I will build you a house'; therefore Your slave has found courage in his heart to pray this prayer to You.

David therefore sought God about the boy; and David fasted and went and spent the night lying on the ground.

Then the king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing; go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom."

Therefore he said to his servants, "See, Joab's portion of land is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set the portion of land on fire.

For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.

But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, therefore we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not our word first to have our king return?" Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

Therefore Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness,According to my cleanness before His eyes.

Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Yahweh, among the nations,And I will sing praises to Your name.

and he said, "Be it far from me, O Yahweh, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

The king also said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore Yahweh shall return your evil on your own head.

Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to Yahweh our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day."

And they will say, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore Yahweh has brought all this calamity on them.'"

Blessed be Yahweh your God who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel; because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness."

Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

Then the prophet, who brought him back from the way, heard it and said, "It is the man of God, who rebelled against the command of Yahweh; therefore Yahweh has given him to the lion, which has mauled him and put him to death, according to the word of Yahweh which He spoke to him."

therefore behold, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.