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2 Samuel · read by James Jennings
33 verses, in order. Only the verses James read aloud are shown.
2 Samuel 4
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So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb in Hebron.Read from ESV · Elders As Watchmen
2 Samuel 6
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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 ESV · Are You Giving God the Glory
2 Samuel 7
15
But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.Read from ESV · Even In Deep Darkness： The Lord Comforts Me
2 Samuel 10
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But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time (Video)
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When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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 ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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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 ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, "This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite."Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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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 ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time (Video)
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And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master's servants; he did not go down to his house.Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time
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And David was told, "Uriah did not go home." "Haven't you just arrived from a journey?" David asked Uriah. "Why didn't you go home?"Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time (Video)
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Uriah answered, "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!"Read from ESV · Purity and the Use of Your Time (Video)
2 Samuel 12
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Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
2 Samuel 14
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Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Then Absalom said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!" And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Then Joab came to Absalom's house and demanded, "Why did your servants set my field on fire?"Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
2 Samuel 15
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Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, "What city are you from?" And if he replied, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,"Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Absalom would say, "Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you."Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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And he would add, "If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice."Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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"Go in peace," said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: "When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, 'Absalom reigns in Hebron!'"Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following kept increasing.Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
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Then a messenger came to David and reported, "The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom."Read from ESV · How Absalom Stole The Hearts Of A People
2 Samuel 19
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"My lord the king," he replied, "because I am lame, I said, 'I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.' But my servant Ziba deceived me,Read from ESV · Skilled in Communication or Always Interrupting People？
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and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.Read from ESV · Skilled in Communication or Always Interrupting People？