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2 Samuel · read by Carter Conlon
72 verses, in order. Only the verses Carter read aloud are shown.
2 Samuel 1
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Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.Read from KJV · Loyalty
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O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.Read from KJV · Loyalty
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How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.Read from KJV · Loyalty
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I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.Read from KJV · Loyalty
2 Samuel 5
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David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.Read from ESV · The Snare of the Satisfied
2 Samuel 6
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bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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That day David feared the LORD and asked, "How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?"Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,Read from KJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram's horn.Read from NKJV · Six Paces and a Shout of Glory
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As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him. "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!" she said. "He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do."Read from NKJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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But David said to Michal, "I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken."Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
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And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.Read from KJV · The Glorious Uncovered King of Israel
2 Samuel 7
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Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever."Read from NKJV · The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living
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So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision.Read from NKJV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?Read from ESV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?Read from NKJV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,Read from NKJV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, 'The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.' And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.Read from NKJV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, 'I will build a house for you.' Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.Read from KJV · The Snare of the Satisfied
2 Samuel 9
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Mephibosheth bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?"Read from KJV · The Reproach of Christ
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You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master's grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, is always to eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.Read from KJV · The Reproach of Christ
2 Samuel 11
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In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · The Snare of the Satisfied
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One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.Read from NKJV · If Only David Had Called for His Chariot
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Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
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At this, David sent orders to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
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Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master's servants, but he did not go home.Read from KJV · Free and Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.Read from ESV · Free and Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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In the letter he wrote: "Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed."Read from KJV · Free, Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.Read from KJV · Free and Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David's servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.Read from KJV · Free, Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
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Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well."Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
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Then David told the messenger, "Say this to Joab: 'Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.' Encourage him with these words."Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
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When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.Read from NKJV · Free and Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
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And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.Read from KJV · Free and Surrounded and Shouting for Joy
2 Samuel 15
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Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.Read from KJV · The Reproach of Christ
2 Samuel 16
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He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David's right and left.Read from ESV · Bring Back the King
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And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, "Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
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The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!"Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
2 Samuel 18
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The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"Read from KJV · A Plea for Moral Purity
2 Samuel 19
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And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, "The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
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But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?"Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
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Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?Read from NKJV · Bring Back the King
2 Samuel 22
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I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.Read from NKJV · Hold Not Thy Peace, O God of My Praise
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The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.Read from NKJV · Inviting The Devil To Dinner
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Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.Read from KJV · The Heaven Side of Unyielding Prayer
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The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.Read from ESV · Inviting The Devil To Dinner
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He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.Read from NKJV · Taking the Stronghold
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He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.Read from NASB1995 · Running Through the Paper Wall
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They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.Read from KJV · Taking the Stronghold
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He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.Read from KJV · The Heaven Side of Unyielding Prayer
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For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.Read from NKJV · The Lord Your God Is With You
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As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.Read from NKJV · Running Through the Paper Wall
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For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?Read from NKJV · The Lord Your God Is With You
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He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.Read from NKJV · The Lord Your God Is With You
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He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.Read from NKJV · Running Through the Paper Wall
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You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.Read from NKJV · Running Through the Paper Wall
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You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.Read from KJV · Taking the Stronghold
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the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,Read from NKJV · Shouting Glory in the Temple
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who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.Read from NKJV · Shouting Glory in the Temple
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Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.Read from NKJV · Shouting Glory in the Temple
2 Samuel 23
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And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.Read from NKJV · A Lion in a Pit on a Snowy Day