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II SAMUEL

II Samuel 5

1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

1 Chronicles 11:1, 1 Chronicles 11:3, 1 Chronicles 11:1, 1 Chronicles 11:3, Ephesians 5:30

2In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

Matthew 2:6, Matthew 2:6, Micah 5:4, Micah 5:4, Ezekiel 34:23

3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

2 Samuel 2:4, 2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 23:18, 1 Samuel 16:13, 1 Samuel 23:18

4David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,

Luke 3:23, 1 Chronicles 26:31, 1 Chronicles 29:27, Luke 3:23, 1 Chronicles 26:31

5Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

2 Samuel 2:11, 2 Samuel 2:11, 1 Chronicles 3:4, 1 Chronicles 3:4, 1 Kings 2:11

6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

Judges 1:8, Judges 1:8, Judges 1:21, 1 Chronicles 11:4, 1 Chronicles 11:9

7But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

1 Kings 2:10, 1 Kings 2:10, 2 Samuel 6:12, 2 Samuel 6:16, 2 Samuel 6:12

8And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

1 Chronicles 11:6, 1 Chronicles 11:9, 1 Chronicles 11:6, 1 Chronicles 11:9, 1 Samuel 17:25

9So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

1 Kings 9:15, 1 Kings 9:24, 1 Kings 9:15, 1 Kings 9:24, 2 Chronicles 32:5

10And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.

2 Samuel 3:1, 2 Samuel 3:1, Psalms 46:11, Romans 8:31, Psalms 46:11

11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

1 Chronicles 14:1, 1 Chronicles 14:1, 1 Kings 5:1, 1 Kings 5:2, 1 Kings 5:1

12And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.

2 Samuel 7:16, 2 Samuel 7:16, 1 Kings 10:9, 1 Kings 10:9, 1 Chronicles 14:2

13And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles 3:9, 1 Chronicles 3:9, Deuteronomy 17:17, Deuteronomy 17:17, 2 Chronicles 11:18

14These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

1 Chronicles 3:5, 1 Chronicles 3:9, 1 Chronicles 3:5, 1 Chronicles 3:9, 2 Samuel 12:24

15And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

1 Chronicles 14:5, 1 Chronicles 3:6, 1 Chronicles 14:5, 1 Chronicles 3:6

16And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

1 Chronicles 3:8, 1 Chronicles 14:7, 1 Chronicles 3:8, 1 Chronicles 14:7

17And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

2 Samuel 23:14, 2 Samuel 23:14, 1 Chronicles 11:16, 1 Chronicles 14:8, 1 Chronicles 14:9

18And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

Joshua 15:8, Joshua 15:8, Joshua 17:15, Genesis 14:5, 2 Samuel 23:13

19And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

2 Samuel 2:1, 2 Samuel 2:1, 1 Kings 22:15, 1 Kings 22:23, 1 Samuel 23:2

20And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

Isaiah 28:21, Isaiah 28:21

21And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

Deuteronomy 7:5, 1 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 14:12, Deuteronomy 7:5, 1 Chronicles 14:11

22And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

1 Chronicles 14:13, 1 Kings 20:22, 2 Samuel 5:18, 1 Chronicles 14:13, 1 Kings 20:22

23And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

1 Chronicles 14:14, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:7, Matthew 9:29, Matthew 9:30

24Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:6, Judges 4:14, Judges 4:14, Judges 7:15

25And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

1 Chronicles 14:16, 1 Chronicles 14:16, Isaiah 28:21, Joshua 16:10, Isaiah 28:21

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