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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1">David Becomes King Over Israel</div><div class="p"> 1All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, &#8220;We are your own flesh and blood. 2In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the Lord said to you, &#8216;You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.</div><div class="p"> 4David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. 5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.</div><div class="s1">David Conquers Jerusalem</div><div class="p"> 6The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, &#8220;You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.&#8221; They thought, &#8220;David cannot get in here.&#8221; 7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion&#8212;which is the City of David.</div><div class="p"> 8On that day David had said, &#8220;Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those &#8216;lame and blind&#8217; who are David&#8217;s enemies.#5:8 Or are hated by David&#8221; That is why they say, &#8220;The &#8216;blind and lame&#8217; will not enter the palace.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces#5:9 Or the Millo inward. 10And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almighty was with him.</div><div class="p"> 11Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David. 12Then David knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.</div><div class="p"> 13After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. 14These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.</div><div class="s1">David Defeats the Philistines</div><div class="p"> 17When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. 18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; 19so David inquired of the Lord, &#8220;Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?&#8221;</div><div class="p">The Lord answered him, &#8220;Go, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 20So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, &#8220;As waters break out, the Lord has broken out against my enemies before me.&#8221; So that place was called Baal Perazim.#5:20 Baal Perazim means the lord who breaks out. 21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.</div><div class="p"> 22Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; 23so David inquired of the Lord, and he answered, &#8220;Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the poplar trees. 24As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the Lord has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.&#8221; 25So David did as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon#5:25 Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 14:16); Hebrew Geba to Gezer.</div>
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 <div class="label">139</div><div class="cl">Psalm 139</div><div class="d">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</div><div class="q1"> 1You have searched me, Lord,</div><div class="q2">and you know me.</div><div class="q1"> 2You know when I sit and when I rise;</div><div class="q2">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</div><div class="q1"> 3You discern my going out and my lying down;</div><div class="q2">you are familiar with all my ways.</div><div class="q1"> 4Before a word is on my tongue</div><div class="q2">you, Lord, know it completely.</div><div class="q1"> 5You hem me in behind and before,</div><div class="q2">and you lay your hand upon me.</div><div class="q1"> 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</div><div class="q2">too lofty for me to attain.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Where can I go from your Spirit?</div><div class="q2">Where can I flee from your presence?</div><div class="q1"> 8If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</div><div class="q2">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</div><div class="q1"> 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</div><div class="q2">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</div><div class="q1"> 10even there your hand will guide me,</div><div class="q2">your right hand will hold me fast.</div><div class="q1"> 11If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</div><div class="q2">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 12even the darkness will not be dark to you;</div><div class="q2">the night will shine like the day,</div><div class="q2">for darkness is as light to you.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13For you created my inmost being;</div><div class="q2">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</div><div class="q1"> 14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</div><div class="q2">your works are wonderful,</div><div class="q2">I know that full well.</div><div class="q1"> 15My frame was not hidden from you</div><div class="q2">when I was made in the secret place,</div><div class="q2">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 16Your eyes saw my unformed body;</div><div class="q2">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</div><div class="q2">before one of them came to be.</div><div class="q1"> 17How precious to me are your thoughts,#139:17 Or How amazing are your thoughts concerning me God!</div><div class="q2">How vast is the sum of them!</div><div class="q1"> 18Were I to count them,</div><div class="q2">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</div><div class="q2">when I awake, I am still with you.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 19If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</div><div class="q2">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</div><div class="q1"> 20They speak of you with evil intent;</div><div class="q2">your adversaries misuse your name.</div><div class="q1"> 21Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,</div><div class="q2">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</div><div class="q1"> 22I have nothing but hatred for them;</div><div class="q2">I count them my enemies.</div><div class="q1"> 23Search me, God, and know my heart;</div><div class="q2">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</div><div class="q1"> 24See if there is any offensive way in me,</div><div class="q2">and lead me in the way everlasting.</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1">The Ark Brought to Jerusalem</div><div class="p"> 1David again brought together all the able young men of Israel&#8212;thirty thousand. 2He and all his men went to Baalah#6:2 That is, Kiriath Jearim (see 1 Chron. 13:6) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name,#6:2 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate do not have the Name. the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark. 3They 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, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4with the ark of God on it,#6:3,4 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text cart 4 and they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets,#6:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.</div><div class="p"> 6When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7The Lord&#8217;s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.</div><div class="p"> 8Then David was angry because the Lord&#8217;s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.#6:8 Perez Uzzah means outbreak against Uzzah.</div><div class="p"> 9David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, &#8220;How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me?&#8221; 10He was not willing to take the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed him and his entire household.</div><div class="p"> 12Now King David was told, &#8220;The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.&#8221; So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing. 13When those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, 15while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.</div><div class="p"> 16As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.</div><div class="p"> 17They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord Almighty. 19Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.</div><div class="p"> 20When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, &#8220;How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21David said to Michal, &#8220;It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord&#8217;s people Israel&#8212;I will celebrate before the Lord. 22I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 23And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.</div>
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