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David said to the young man, "Where are you from?" And he answered, "I am the son of one from another land, an Amalekite."

I am troubled because of you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasing to me. Your love to me was greater than the love of women.

Abner was very angry because of Ish-bosheth's words, and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the family of your father Saul, to his brothers and to his friends. I have not given you into David's hands. Yet today you say I am guilty because of this woman.

And I am weak today, even if I was chosen to be king. The sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May the Lord pay the sinner for his sin."

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that You have brought me this far?

Now there was a servant in Saul's house whose name was Ziba. They called him to David, and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant."

Again Mephibosheth put his face to the ground and said, "Who am I? Why should you care for a dead dog like me?"

She was going to have a baby, so she sent someone to tell David, "I am going to have a baby."

He said to Amnon, "O son of the king, why are you so sad from day to day? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom."

The king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she answered, "I am a woman whose husband has died.

You came only yesterday. Should I make you go with us today, when I do not know where I am going? Return with your brothers. May loving-kindness and faith be with you."

But if He says, ‘I have no joy in you,' then here I am. Let Him do to me what He thinks is good."

He said to the king, "Let not my lord think I am guilty. Do not remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king left Jerusalem. Let not the king take it to heart.

For your servant knows that I have sinned. So I have come today. I am the first of all the family of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."

But David said, "What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? Why should you be against me this day? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that this day I am king of Israel?"

I am now eighty years old. Can I know the difference between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and women any more? Why should your servant be an added problem to my lord the king?

So he came to her, and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your woman servant." And he answered, "I am listening."

I am one of peace and faith in Israel. You want to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the gift of the Lord?"

I call upon the Lord, Who should be praised. I am saved from those who hate me.

David said to Gad, "I am in much trouble. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His loving-kindness is great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man."