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Abner took twenty soldiers with him, and when they got to Hebron, David gave a big feast for them.

I am the chosen king, but Joab and Abishai have more power than I do. So God will have to pay them back for the evil thing they did."

When a man came to Ziklag and told me that Saul was dead, he thought he deserved a reward for bringing good news. But I grabbed him and killed him.

You evil men have done something much worse than he did. You've killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed. I'll make you pay for that. I'll wipe you from the face of the earth!

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years.

He lived in Hebron for the first seven and a half years and ruled only Judah. Then he moved to Jerusalem, where he ruled both Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.

David knew that the Lord had made him king of Israel and that he had made him a powerful ruler for the good of his people.

Some of the people of Israel were playing music on small harps and other stringed instruments, and on tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. David and the others were happy, and they danced for the Lord with all their might.

The Lord God was very angry at Uzzah for doing this, and he killed Uzzah right there beside the chest.

David got angry at God for killing Uzzah. He named that place "Bursting Out Against Uzzah," and that's what it's still called.

The chest stayed there for three months, and the Lord greatly blessed Obed Edom, his family, and everything he owned. Then someone told King David, "The Lord has done this because the sacred chest is in Obed Edom's house." Right away, David went to Obed Edom's house to get the chest and bring it to David's City. Everyone was celebrating.

He was dancing for the Lord with all his might, but he wore only a linen cloth.

Saul's daughter Michal looked out her window and watched the chest being brought into David's City. But when she saw David jumping and dancing for the Lord , she was disgusted.

They put the chest inside a tent that David had set up for it. David worshiped the Lord by sacrificing animals and burning them on an altar,

to go to David and give him this message: David, you are my servant, so listen to what I say. Why should you build a temple for me?

I chose leaders and told them to be like shepherds for my people Israel. But did I ever say anything to even one of them about building a cedar temple for me?

and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.

David went into the tent he had set up for the sacred chest. Then he sat there and prayed: Lord All-Powerful, my family and I don't deserve what you have already done for us,

David set out for the Euphrates River to build a monument there. On his way, he defeated the king of Zobah, whose name was Hadadezer the son of Rehob.

You and your fifteen sons and twenty servants will work for Mephibosheth. You will farm his land and bring in his crops, so that Saul's family and servants will have food. But Mephibosheth will always eat with me at my table."