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So David would not bring the ark of Adonai into the City of David; rather, David took it over to the house of ‘Oved-Edom the Gitti.

King David was told, " Adonai has blessed the house of ‘Oved-Edom and everyone who belongs to him, thanks to the ark of God." So David went and joyously brought the ark of God up from the house of ‘Oved-Edom into the City of David.

So David and all the house of Isra'el brought up the ark of Adonai with shouting and the sound of the shofar.

I will assign a place to my people Isra'el; I will plant them there, so that they can live in their own place without being disturbed any more. The wicked will no longer oppress them, as they did at the beginning,

Yet in your view, Adonai Elohim , even this was too small a thing; so you have even said that your servant's dynasty will continue on into the distant future. This is [indeed] a teaching for a man, Adonai Elohim —

So now, Adonai , God, establish forever the word you have spoken to your servant and his house; do what you have promised.

May your name be magnified forever, so that it will be said, ‘ Adonai -Tzva'ot is God over Isra'el, and the dynasty of your servant David will be set up in your presence.'

So may it please you to bless the family of your servant and thereby cause it to continue forever in your presence. For you, Adonai Elohim , have said it. May your servant's family be blessed forever by your blessing."

You are to work the land for him, you, your sons and your slaves. Harvest the crops, so that your master's [grand]son will have food to feed his family; but M'fivoshet your master's [grand]son will always eat at my table." Tziva had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.

David said, "I will show grace to Hanun the son of Nachash, as his father showed grace to me." So David sent his servants to pass him a message of comfort concerning his father. David's servants entered the territory of the people of ‘Amon;

So Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half their beards, cut off their clothes halfway up, at their buttocks, and then sent them away.

So Yo'av and the people with him went to battle Aram, and they fled before him.

It was reported to David; so he gathered all Isra'el together, crossed the Yarden and came to Heilam. Aram deployed themselves against David and fought him.

But Aram fled before Isra'el; David killed 700 chariot-drivers and 40,000 horsemen from Aram, and he struck Shovakh the commander of their army, so that he died there.

When all Hadad‘ezer's vassal kings saw that they had been defeated by Isra'el, they made peace with Isra'el and became their subjects. So Aram was afraid to help the people of ‘Amon any more.

Uriyah answered David, "The ark, Isra'el and Y'hudah stay in tents; and my lord Yo'av and the servants of my lord are camping in the countryside. So should I go into my house to eat and drink and go to bed with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!"

David said to Uriyah, "Stay here today also; tomorrow I will let you leave." So Uriyah stayed in Yerushalayim that day and the following day.

In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriyah on the front lines of the fiercest fighting; then pull back from him, so that he will be wounded and killed."

So while Yo'av had the city under siege, he assigned Uriyah to the place where he knew the toughest defenders were.

he may become angry and ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot from the wall?