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In accordance with all these words and all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

so that Your name may be great forever, by saying, 'The LORD of armies is God over Israel'; and may the house of Your servant David be established before You.

"And now, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, so that it may continue forever before You. For You, Lord GOD, have spoken; and with Your blessing may the house of Your servant be blessed forever."

So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Arameans in the Valley of Salt.

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

Then David said, "Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul, so that I could show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

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."

"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 will have food to eat; nevertheless Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, shall eat at my table regularly." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Then Ziba said to the king, "In accordance with everything 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, because he ate at the king's table regularly. And he was disabled in his two feet.

Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent some of his servants to console him about his father. But when David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites,

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

So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to the battle against the Arameans, and they fled from him.

When all the kings, servants of Hadadezer, saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

So David sent servants and inquired about the woman. And someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

But the woman conceived; so she sent word and informed David, and said, "I am pregnant."

Then David sent word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." So Uriah left the king's house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.