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Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
