2 Samuel 22:28   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.

2 Samuel 22:29   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light.

2 Samuel 22:30   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

With your help I can advance against a troop ; with my God I can scale a wall.

2 Samuel 22:36   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You make your saving help my shield; your help has made me great.

2 Samuel 22:37   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You provide a broad path for my feet, so that my ankles do not give way.

2 Samuel 22:40   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.

2 Samuel 22:41   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.

2 Samuel 22:44   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

"You have delivered me from the attacks of the peoples; you have preserved me as the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me,

2 Samuel 22:49   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me.

2 Samuel 22:50   (Read all of 2 Samuel 22)

Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.

2 Samuel 24:3   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

But Joab replied to the king, "May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?"

2 Samuel 24:10   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."

2 Samuel 24:12   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

"Go and tell David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.' "

2 Samuel 24:13   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

So Gad went to David and said to him, "Shall there come on you three years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me."

2 Samuel 24:16   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:17   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, "I have sinned; I, the shepherd, have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family."

2 Samuel 24:21   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" "To buy your threshing floor," David answered, "so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped."

2 Samuel 24:23   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

Your Majesty, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the Lord your God accept you."

2 Samuel 24:24   (Read all of 2 Samuel 24)

But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

1 Kings 1:2   (Read all of 1 Kings 1)

So his attendants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm."

1 Kings 1:3   (Read all of 1 Kings 1)

Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 1:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 1)

(His father had never rebuked him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)

1 Kings 1:11   (Read all of 1 Kings 1)

Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king, and our lord David knows nothing about it?

1 Kings 1:12   (Read all of 1 Kings 1)

Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.