June
21
2
Samuel 4-6
2Sa
4:1 When Ishbosheth,
Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became
feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2Sa
4:2 Ishbosheth,
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:
2Sa
4:3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as
foreigners there until this day).
2Sa
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.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
4:7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his
bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and
took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
2Sa
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; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king
this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2Sa
4:9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
2Sa
4:10 when one told me, saying, 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.
2Sa
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?
2Sa
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.
2Sa
5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and
spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
2Sa
5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led
out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, You shall be
shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.
2Sa
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 Yahweh: and they
anointed David king over Israel.
2Sa
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the
city of David.
2Sa
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 of David's soul. Therefore they
say, There are the blind and the lame; he can't come into the house.
2Sa
5:9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David.
David built around from Millo and inward.
2Sa
5:10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies,
was with him.
2Sa
5:11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
2Sa
5:12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake.
2Sa
5:13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters
born to David.
2Sa
5:14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
2Sa
5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2Sa
5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to
David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your
hand.
2Sa
5:20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he
said, Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of
waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
2Sa
5:21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away.
2Sa
5:22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
5:23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up:
make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the
mulberry trees.
2Sa
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
Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
2Sa
5:25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the
Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
2Sa
6:1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand.
2Sa
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 Yahweh of Armies who sits above
the cherubim.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
6:5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all
manner of instruments made of
fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with
tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
2Sa
6:6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth
his hand to
the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
2Sa
6:7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck
him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
2Sa
6:8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah;
and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.
2Sa
6:9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the
ark of Yahweh come to me?
2Sa
6:10 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the
city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom
the Gittite.
2Sa
6:11 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his
house.
2Sa
6:12 It was told king David, saying, Yahweh 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.
2Sa
6:13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone
six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
2Sa
6:14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was
girded with a linen ephod.
2Sa
6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2Sa
6:16 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh 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 Yahweh; and she despised him in
her heart.
2Sa
6:17 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
2Sa
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 Yahweh of
Armies.
2Sa
6:19 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude
of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a
portion of flesh,
and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his
house.
2Sa
6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter
of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king
of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovers himself!
2Sa
6:21 David said to Michal, It was
before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his
house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel:
therefore will I play before Yahweh.
2Sa
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.
2Sa
6:23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her
death.
