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As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield to all those that take refuge in him.

For who is God, save Yahweh? And who is a rock, save our God?

God is my strong fortress; And he opened up perfectly my way.

Yahweh lives; And blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

Even the God that executes vengeance for me, And that brings down peoples under me,

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, And the [noble] man who was raised on high says, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel:

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One that rules over man righteously, That rules in the fear of God,

Truly my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he does not make it to grow.

And Joab said to the king, May Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

all this, O king, does Araunah give to the king. And Araunah said to the king, Yahweh your God accept you.

And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will truly buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And she said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your slave, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

truly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my stead; truly so I will do this day.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, says so [too].

And moreover the king's slaves came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.

And also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.

and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

And now, O Yahweh my God, you have made your slave king instead of David my father: and I am but a small lad; I don't know how to go out or come in.