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) 

    

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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