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I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful than the love of women.

Therefore, be strong and courageous, for though Saul your lord is dead, the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."

Saul's son Ish-bosheth was 40 years old when he began his reign over Israel; he ruled for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

So they got up and were counted off—12 for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and 12 from David's soldiers.

May God punish Abner and do so severely if I don't do for David what the Lord swore to him:

Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, "Give me back my wife, Michal. I was engaged to her for the price of 100 Philistine foreskins."

When Abner and 20 men came to David at Hebron, David held a banquet for him and his men.

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab's brother.

and the king sang a lament for Abner: Should Abner die as a fool dies?

As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil!"

when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,' he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news!

He said that day, "Whoever attacks the Jebusites must go through the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind who are despised by David." For this reason it is said, "The blind and the lame will never enter the house."

King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David; he also sent cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

Then David knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

Then David inquired of the Lord : "Should I go to war against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?" The Lord replied to David, "Go, for I will certainly hand the Philistines over to you."

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, act decisively, for then the Lord will have marched out ahead of you to attack the camp of the Philistines."

Then the Lord 's anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there next to the ark of God.

They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had set up for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord 's presence.

So Nathan told the king, "Go and do all that is on your heart, for the Lord is with you."

"Go to My servant David and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you to build a house for Me to live in?