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So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.

So David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Yahweh, over Israel; therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

So Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you."

So now, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

So now, O Yahweh God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as You have spoken,

So now, O Lord Yahweh, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your slave.

So now, be pleased and bless the house of Your slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Lord Yahweh, have spoken; and with Your blessing may the house of Your slave be blessed forever."

so Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him down; for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi. And in Joram's hand were articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.

So David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt.

So David reigned over all Israel; and David was doing justice and righteousness for all his people.

So the king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lo-debar."

So Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and prostrated himself. And David said, "Mephibosheth." And he said, "Here is your servant!"

So he prostrated himself and said, "What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?"

And you and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master's grandson may have food and eat of it; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall eat at my table continually." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons.

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king's table continually. Now he was lame in both feet.

So David said, "I will show lovingkindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, just as his father showed lovingkindness to me." So David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants. And David's servants came to the land of the sons of Ammon.

So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

Then the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David. So the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.