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2 Samuel · read by Roy Hession
31 verses, in order. Only the verses Roy read aloud are shown.
2 Samuel 1
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"Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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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 · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
2 Samuel 6
3
They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,Read from KJV · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.Read from KJV · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.Read from KJV · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,Read from KJV · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 · (The Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
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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 Ark of the Covenant) 5. Entering Jerusalem
2 Samuel 15
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"Go in peace," said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until the people had passed out of the city.Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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Then the king said to Zadok, "Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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But if He should say, 'I do not delight in you,' then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him."Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
2 Samuel 16
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As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.Read from KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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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 KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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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 KJV · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
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 · (The Lord - Merciful and Gracious) 5. the Triumph of the Poor and Needy
2 Samuel 21
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During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites."Read from KJV · (Trees in the Christian Experience) 3. the Man on the Tree
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So David asked the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?"Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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The Gibeonites said to him, "We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us." "Whatever you ask, I will do for you," he replied.Read from KJV · (Trees in the Christian Experience) 3. the Man on the Tree
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And they answered the king, "As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD." "I will give them to you," said the king.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.Read from NKJV · Spiritual Famine
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But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine
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So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.Read from KJV · Spiritual Famine