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And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.

Verse ConceptsHeatNoonHot Weather

And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesZion, As A PlaceEntering Cities

And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenBarrenness

And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, came to David, and falling down on his face, gave him honour. And David said, Mephibosheth. And answering he said, Your servant is here.

Verse ConceptsTributesBowing Before DavidBehold Me!saul

And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of Others

And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterDavid's Wives

Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalLambsUnkindnessHerdsTravellersPeople UnwillingTaking AnimalsThose Who Provided A Meal

And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsOne FleshComfort, Of FriendsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenThe Promise Of A Baby

Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In WomenNamed SistersMen And Women Who LovedBeautiful Women

And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

Verse ConceptsInfatuationSick IndividualsHard Tasks

Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand.

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPretendingSick Individuals

So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitCakesPretendingSick Individuals

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.

Verse ConceptsDoughBaking BreadKneading Dough

Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrivate Rooms

And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister.

Verse ConceptsGraspingSexual Union Intended

But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofRape

Then Amnon was full of hate for her, hating her with a hate greater than his earlier love for her. And he said to her, Get up and be gone.

Verse ConceptsHatredSuffering, Causes OfDefraudingMen And Women Who LovedHating Individualsheartbroken

And she said to him, Not so, my brother, for this great wrong in sending me away is worse than what you did to me before. But he gave no attention to her.

Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

Now she had on a long robe, such as in past times the king's virgin daughters were dressed in. Then the servant put her out, locking the door after her.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentLoneliness And Depression

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before David

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.

Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.

Verse ConceptsResignationNot Pleasing GodGod's Will Be Done

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

Verse ConceptsNosesOffenceOne FleshSmellsPeople Being Hated

And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeBearsBereavementFierce MenReady For War

And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFindingRiver CrossingsNot FindingGroups going homeWhere Are People?Those Looking For People

Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofPortersActing AloneRunning With NewsGood News

And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To Rest

Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldTombsResigned To DeathAnother's Burial Place

Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

Verse ConceptsAssembling Israel

And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:

Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesFirewood

So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of Sex

And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before David

And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before David

Then King David in answer said, Send for Bath-sheba to come to me. And she came in and took her place before the king.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before David

So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.

Verse ConceptsGoing Outside

Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well!

Verse ConceptsAssentingKings SummoningPeople Bound By Oaths

Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFortificationsAliancesCityBuildingJerusalem, History OfKingsPolygamySolomon, Character OfSolomon, Life OfWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallBuilding Relationships

And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldMercy, HumanBowelsHalf Of BodiesPeople Showing MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenHaving A Babybaby

Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

Verse ConceptsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

Verse ConceptsRebuilding Jerusalemreinforcement

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

Verse ConceptsJewelsPrecious StonesJewellery

And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

Verse ConceptsRiddlesAnswering People

And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

Verse ConceptsStepsorganizationoverwhelmed

And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanQueensSolomon, Character OfPresentsIndividuals going homePeople Giving Other Things

And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.

Verse ConceptsPretendingTelling Of Movements

Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionHiding From PeopleBeyond JordanBrooks

So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessSacrificial GivingBreadcooking

So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time.

Verse ConceptsSacrificial GivingAction For A Long Time

And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

Verse ConceptsHousesStairwaysSecret PrayerCarrying Dead BodiesUpper Rooms

And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

Verse ConceptsCrying To GodSecret PrayerGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsTragedy

And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

Verse ConceptsLiving On

And Elijah in answer said, It is I; now go and say to your lord, Elijah is here.

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeIn Men's Presence

By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be FoundThose Looking For People

And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.

Verse ConceptsIn Men's Presence

And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.

Verse ConceptsIn Men's Presence

And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesWhat Do You Do?Caves As Places Of Refuge

And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

Verse ConceptsMantlesCloaksOuter GarmentsWhat Do You Do?

And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

And they said, Your servants have with us here fifty strong men; be pleased to let them go in search of Elijah; for it may be that the spirit of the Lord has taken him up and put him down on some mountain or in some valley. But he said, Do not send them.

Verse ConceptsThe Spirit Of The LordFifties

And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodGod, Will OfPouring WaterNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Debthelppothelping

So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.

Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesCessationThings StoppingDebtpot

Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsHospitalityTravellers

And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual DiscernmentSpiritual PerceptionSpecific Holy IndividualsMan Of GodGodly WomanGodly Man

And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

Verse ConceptsGratitudeRelativesDoing One's Work

So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, DisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfDoing One's Work

Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

Verse ConceptsTime Of YearMan's Words Fulfilled

And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldPeople Sitting DownDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.

Verse ConceptsSpeedPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

Verse ConceptsSeeing At A DistanceMan Of God

Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of A Child