GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Samuel - Part 13

2 Samuel 9:3  

    The king asked, "Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?"

    Ziba answered the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet."

(see all 2 Samuel 9 - 11)

 

2 Samuel 12:7  

    Then Nathan said, "You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.' "

 

2 Samuel 12:15-16  

    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill. David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.

(see all 2 Samuel 12 - 13)

 

2 Samuel 14:11-14  

    She said, "Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed."

    "As surely as the LORD lives, not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."

    Then the woman said, "Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king."

    "Speak," he replied.

    The woman said, "Then why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son? Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him."

 

2 Samuel 14:16-17  

"Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God's inheritance."

    "And now your servant says, 'May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.' "

 

2 Samuel 14:20  

"Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God--he knows everything that happens in the land."

(see all 2 Samuel 14) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Samuel - Part 12

2 Samuel 6:2-4  

He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark. They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it.

 

2 Samuel 6:6-7  

    When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out his hand and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.

 

2 Samuel 6:12  

    Now King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God." So David went up to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.

(see all 2 Samuel 6)

 

2 Samuel 7:22-24  

    "How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. And who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God."

 

2 Samuel 7:25-26  

    "And now, LORD God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised so that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, 'The LORD Almighty is God over Israel!' And the house of your servant David will be established in your sight." 

 

2 Samuel 7:27-29  

    "LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, 'I will build a house for you.' So your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant. Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign LORD, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever."

(see all 2 Samuel 7 - 8) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Samuel - Part 11

2 Samuel 2:26-28  

    Abner called out to Joab, "Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?"

    Joab answered, "As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning."

    So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore. 

(see all 2 Samuel 1 - 2)

 

2 Samuel 3:8-11  

    Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, "Am I a dog's head--on Judah's side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven't handed you over to David. Yet you accuse me of an offense involving this woman! May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD promised him on oath and transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David's throne over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beersheba." Ish-Bosheth did not dare to say another word to Abner, because he was afraid of him.

 

2 Samuel 3:33-35  

    The king sang this lament for Abner:

 

    "Should Abner have died as the lawless die?

        Your hands were not bound,

        your feet were not fettered.

    You fell as one falls before the wicked." 

 

    And all the people wept over him again.

    Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!"

(see all 2 Samuel 3 - 4)

 

2 Samuel 5:9-10  

    David took residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terrace inward. And he became more and more powerful, because the LORD God Almighty was with him.

(see all 2 Samuel 5) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Samuel - Part 10

1 Samuel 29:8-9  

    "But what have I done?" asked David. "What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

    Achish answered, "I know that you have been as pleasing in my eyes as an angel of God; nevertheless, the Philistine commanders have said, 'He must not go up with us into battle.'"

(see all 1 Samuel 29) 

 

1 Samuel 30:6-8 

David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

    Then David said to Abiathar the  priest, the son of Ahimelek. "Bring me the ephod." Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?"

    "Pursue them," he answered. "You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue."

 

1 Samuel 30:25-19  

    David asked him, "Can you lead me down to this raiding party?"

    He answered, "Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them."

    He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating and drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

(see all 1 Samuel 1:30 - 31) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Samuel - Part 9

1 Samuel 25:26-27  

"And now, my lord, as surely as the LORD your God lives and as you live, since the LORD has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you."

 

1 Samuel 25:28-29  

    "Please forgive your servant's presumption. The LORD your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the LORD's battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. Even if someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling."

 

1 Samuel 25:30-31  

"When the LORD has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the LORD your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant."

 

1 Samuel 25:32-34  

    David said to Abigail, "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak."

(see all 1 Samuel 25)

 

1 Samuel 26:7-9  

    So David went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

    Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't strike him twice."

    But David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless!"

(see all 1 Samuel 26 - 27)

 

1 Samuel 28:15-17  

    Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?"

    "I am in great distress," Saul said. "The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do."

    Samuel said, "Why do you consult me, now that the LORD has departed from you and become your enemy? The LORD has done what he predicted through me. The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to one of your neighbors--to David."

(see all 1 Samuel 28) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Samuel - Part 8

1 Samuel 20:12-13

    Then Jonathan said to David, "I swear by the LORD, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know? But if my father intends to harm you, may the LORD deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father."

(see all 1 Samuel 20 - 21)

 

1 Samuel 22:13-15  

    Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?"

    Ahimelek answered the king, "Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father's family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair."

(see all 1 Samuel 22)

 

1 Samuel 23:7  

    Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, "God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars." 

 

 1 Samuel 23:9-11  

    When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring me the ephod." David said, "LORD, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and destroy the town on account of me. Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? LORD, God of Israel, tell your servant."

    And the LORD said, "He will."

 

1 Samuel 23:14-16  

    David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

    While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that Saul had come out to take his life. And Saul's son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. 

(see all 1 Samuel 23 - 24)

 

1 Samuel 25:20-22  

    As she (Abigail) came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. David had just said, "It's been useless--all my watching over this fellow's property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!" 

(1 Samuel 25 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Samuel - Part 7

1 Samuel 16:15-16

    Saul's attendants said to him, "See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better."

 

1 Samuel 16:23  

    Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him. 

(see all 1 Samuel 16)

 

1 Samuel 17:26  

    David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

 

1 Samuel 17:36  

"Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God."

 

1 Samuel 17:45-47  

    David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

(see all 1 Samuel 17)

 

1 Samuel 18:10-11  

    The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, "I'll pin David to the wall." But David eluded him twice. 

(see all 1 Samuel 18)

 

1 Samuel 19:18-21  

    When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there. Word came to Saul: "David is in Naioth at Ramah"; so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul's men and they also prophesied. Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied.

 

1 Samuel 19:23  

    So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth.

(see all 1 Samuel 19) 

    

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