The Second Book of Samuel, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} When Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his
hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. {4:2}
Saul's son had two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one
was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned
to Benjamin: {4:3} and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived
as foreigners there until this day). {4:4} Now Jonathan, Saul's son,
had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the
news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him
up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he
fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. {4:5} The sons of
Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the
heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at
noon. {4:6} They came there into the midst of the house, as though
they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and
Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. {4:7} Now when they came into
the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and
killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way
of the Arabah all night. {4:8} They brought the head of Ishbosheth to
David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of
Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! the
LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed."
{4:9} David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of
Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the LORD lives, who has
redeemed my soul out of all adversity, {4:10} when someone told me,
'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took
hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him
for his news. {4:11} How much more, when wicked men have slain a
righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require
his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" {4:12}
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their
hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron.
But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of
Abner in Hebron.
{5:1} Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and
spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {5:2} In
times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and
brought in Israel. The LORD said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my
people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" {5:3} So all the
elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a
covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David
king over Israel. {5:4} David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years. {5:5} In Hebron he reigned over
Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. {5:6} The king and his
men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the
land, who spoke to David, saying, "Unless you take away the blind and
the lame, you shall not come in here"; thinking, "David can't come in
here." {5:7} Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same
is the city of David. {5:8} David said on that day, "Whoever strikes
the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame
and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore they say,
"The blind and the lame can't come into the house." {5:9} David lived
in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around
from Millo and inward. {5:10} David grew greater and greater; for the
LORD, the God of Hosts, was with him. {5:11} Hiram king of Tyre sent
messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and
they built David a house. {5:12} David perceived that the LORD had
established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom
for his people Israel's sake. {5:13} David took him more concubines
and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there
were yet sons and daughters born to David. {5:14} These are the names
of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and
Nathan, and Solomon, {5:15} and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and
Japhia, {5:16} and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. {5:17} When
the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel,
all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and
went down to the stronghold. {5:18} Now the Philistines had come and
spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {5:19} David inquired of
the LORD, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you
deliver them into my hand?"
The LORD said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the
Philistines into your hand."
{5:20} David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and
he said, "The LORD has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of
waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
{5:21} They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away. {5:22} The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim. {5:23} When David inquired of the LORD, he
said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them
over against the mulberry trees. {5:24} It shall be, when you hear the
sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you
shall stir yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out before you to
strike the army of the Philistines."
{5:25} David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the
Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
{6:1} David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand. {6:2} David arose, and went with all the people who
were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of
God, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Hosts
who sits above the cherubim. {6:3} They set the ark of God on a new
cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the
hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
{6:4} They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the
hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. {6:5} David
and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of
instruments made of fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed
instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with
cymbals. {6:6} When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah
reached for the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle
stumbled. {6:7} The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and
God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of
God. {6:8} David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth on
Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. {6:9} David
was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of
the LORD come to me?" {6:10} So David would not move the ark of the
LORD to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside
into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. {6:11} The ark of the LORD
remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and the
LORD blessed Obed-Edom, and all his house. {6:12} It was told king
David, saying, "The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all
that pertains to him, because of the ark of God."
David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy. {6:13} It was so, that, when those
who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox
and a fattened calf. {6:14} David danced before the LORD with all his
might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. {6:15} So David and all
the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and
with the sound of the [1>]shofar[<1]. {6:16} It was so, as the ark of
the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul
looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing
before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. {6:17} They
brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst
of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. {6:18} When David had
made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he
blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts. {6:19} He gave to
all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men
and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all
the people departed everyone to his house. {6:20} Then David returned
to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet
David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who
uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants,
as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
{6:21} David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me
above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over
the people of the LORD, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before
the LORD. {6:22} I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base
in my own sight. But of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they
shall honor me." {6:23} Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to
the day of her death.
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Footnotes:
[1] {6:15} or, trumpet
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