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In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."

And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.

Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into 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.

So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.

While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.

Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.

Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, "All is well." And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'"

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.

"In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For you are my lamp, O Lord , and my God lightens my darkness.

For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

"For who is God, but the Lord ? And who is a rock, except our God?

This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.

"The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,