BEIRUT: A quarter of a million Hizbullah supporters packed a square in the southern port city of Tyre Friday to mark the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from South Lebanon in 2000. A day earlier, the Islamic resistance group had launched a 10-day campaign to collect funds for Palestine, which is facing a crippling Western aid boycott after the election of Hamas.

In a speech delivered on the occasion, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Lebanese must join forces to resolve the numerous issues facing the country.

"I advise the Lebanese to stop referring to the UN Security Council and [the international community]," he said. "Let us unite our efforts to resolve our problems."

Nasrallah added that establishing "strong and special" relations between Beirut and Damascus would only be possible as a result of "a common will and agreement between the two counties."

"Such relations cannot be imposed," he said, in reference to Security Council Resolution 1680, which calls on Syria to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon.

The massive celebration, held near the former Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, came as Hizbullah faces continued pressure to disarm from the UN Security Council.

However, Nasrallah insisted the resistance would continue fighting Israel until the Jewish state withdrew from the Shebaa Farms and released all Lebanese detainees held in its prisons.

The Shiite cleric added that while Israel had defeated Arab armies for decades, its withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 "after incessant attacks" by Hizbullah marked a significant turning point.

"We have entered the phase of victory," he said. "After May 25, there would be no more 'Nakba' and no more 'Naksa,'" Nasrallah said in reference to the 1948 "Catastrophe" which led to the creation of Israel and the devastating 1967 Arab defeat. "[From this point forward] there will only be resistance, liberation and victory."

Hizbullah enjoys widespread support for its struggle against Israel, which is widely credited with forcing Israel to withdraw its forces on May 25, 2000, ending 22 years of occupation.
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However, the group's refusal to hand over its weapons has created deep divisions in Lebanon, where all other militias have disarmed. Hizbullah's weapons will be the focus of discussions at the next session of national talks on June 9.

The international community is also pressuring the group to hand over its arms in accordance with Resolution 1559's calls for the disarmament of all militias in Lebanon.

During the rally, supporters carried portraits of Nasrallah and waved the party's yellow and green flag, as well as those of Iran and Palestine.

As is customary in his speeches, Nasrallah thanked Iran and his party's other ally Syria, for their support.

"We thank the Syrian people and President Bashar Assad" for their support, he said. "This grateful gesture is the least we can do."

Once more taking aim at Washington, Nasrallah accused the US of trying to incite violence between Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon and the region.

Meanwhile, Speaker Nabih Berri insisted that Damascus "welcomes and encourages" the Lebanese national dialogue and "has no problems with it."

Berri, who also spoke during the Liberation Day celebrations, said: "Lebanon is being used to besiege Syria and Syria is being used to hit the last vestiges of the resistance against Israel in Lebanon."

He continued to warn that: "This way we will be all losers. I call for the establishment of a true Syrian-Lebanese dialogue."

Questioning the manner in which developments have unfolded on the international stage over the past year, Berri said: "I wonder why things are being portrayed in such a way that Syria is the one that stands as a barrier in the face of demands imposed on it ... Lebanon, on many occasions, has refused proposals as well."

In other developments, Future Parliamentary Bloc President MP Saad Hariri was reported to have called Berri and Nasrallah Friday to congratulate them on Liberation Day. ~

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Hizbullah shows the way.

'nessie' the antisemite sticks up for a rabidly antisemitic and theocratic organization that espouses genocide of Jews. So much for his anti-racism and progressiveness. He's a crypto-Nazi in progressive drag.

Anyhow, he demonstrates rather typical nessiesque stupidity to esteem Hizballah of all entities as something that can defeat Israel. There's a difference between exerting the pressure that was a factor in Israeli withdrawal from S. Lebanon and actually defeating Israel on the battle field. 'nessie' conflates the two.

the way these weasels lie forge and blame everyone else for seeing zionism for what it is.

And it aint Judaism.

For someone so zealous about sticking to the topic on threads dear to his souless heart, you're donig a piss-poor job noticed this thread's one. Pull the plug on your blather mode for a wee moment so you can notice.

and mock you when your hyperbole begins to overflow.
Don't you know how to communicate w/o the feigned self martyrdom?
You judasgoat types don't really care about the Jews as long as you get what you think is yours.
And that could be anything and everything.
Even if it means nuclear war.

Which is why you'll never get it:

1. you're a self-anointed supervisor, for yourself.
2. Your mockery has been perpetually on auto mode. You ain't foolin' me.
3. You don't give two hoots about Palestinians. You only feign concern for Arabs and Islam.
4. I care about most Jews. The ones I'm apathetic toward is your array of grovelling pet Jews.
5. I ned no self-martyrdom. You and yours have been doing that with flying colors.

Amazing denial there. Beating the broken drum harder does not produce music. Just noise.
You must, if one is to believe you actually believe your own words, think you're assisting the Faith of Judaism. How blind are you? Reading your acrid and arrogant rhetoric I first surmise low intelligence and then realize this could also be an act and your agenda malevolent.
It really depends upon the source of your funding.

"Amazing denial there. Beating the broken drum harder does not produce music. Just noise. "

That's what you excel at here.

"You must... think you're assisting the Faith of Judaism. How blind are you? "

The proper question to pose now is how arrogat are you as a self-appointed clairvoyant beyond what we've come to know?

"It really depends upon the source of your funding."

I'm not about to reason with you on this one as you seem to maintain my financier to be ZOG.

Keep being sad. That's the least we can hope for.

we're getting to know you....
That horse is down and dead, stop beating it. Put down the cattle prod.
You're telling me..
'nah nah, that's what YOU are !'
Let me insert the following:
by Scapegoated Jew

-The proper question to pose now is how arrogat are you as a self-appointed clairvoyant beyond what we've come to know? -
[clairvoyance certainly not needed. Anyone here can read]

I'm not about to reason with you on this one as you seem to maintain my financier to be ZOG.
[ I've noticed much chaff but no published and there fore legally pertinent refutations of funding sources. And a strawman like ZOG is not the same as say, AIPAC and Mr. Abramoff and I'm certain other dual citizenship jackals in the halls of OUR government.]

>he demonstrates rather typical nessiesque stupidity to esteem Hizballah of all entities as something that can defeat Israel.


So far, they are the only ones who have.

That's an obvious lie, obvious stupidity.

See what I mean? People who do stuff like this can't be trusted to be telling the truth about anything.

>See what I mean?

One can't see what another means.

So, all esle being equal, the moral choice is to side against the aggressor, and with those who have been aggressed upon.

"Israel is no less racist and theocratic than Hizbullah"

This is one helluva deliberate brazen lie.

"So, all esle being equal, the moral choice is to side against the aggressor, and with those who have been aggressed upon."

The moral choice is even more imcumbent on us since Israel is far less racist and theocratic than Hizbullah.

You, the gentle casual unaffiliated reader, please ask yourself why 'nessie' lies about such easily verifiable facts and what does he hope to convince you of.

why , because you happen to say so?
But judasgoat, you have no creditability.
Anyone would believe you because...
what?
Your history here or over at Indybay?
Heh.

Zionists love to sign other people's names. False flag ops are their specialty. We cannot help but wonder how many atrocities they have signed Osama bin Laden's name to, or Hamas' or the PLO's.


Or Hizbullah's.

Anti-Zionists love to sign other people's names. False flag ops are their specialty. We cannot help but wonder how many atrocities they have signed Ehud Barak's name to, or Irgun's or the Haganah's.


Or LEHI's.

Once again they demonstrate what fundamentally dishonest people they are:


http://www.sfimc.net/news/2002/12/1555696_comment.php#1692248

(snip)

Sometimes they take something that an anti-Zionist has written, subtly alter it’s meaning by changing a few words, and post it under the name of the original author.

(snip)

Once again he demonstrates what fundamentally dishonest a person he is:


http://www.sfimc.net/news/2002/12/1555696_comment.php#1962248

(snip)

Sometimes he takes something that a Zionist has written, subtly alters its meaning by changing a few words, and posts it under the name of the original author.

(snip)

"why , because you happen to say so? "

No, because it happens to be true, no matter who says it.

Just look at the numbers. Compare the number of Israeli Arabs in the Knesset to the number of Jews in the Hezbollah.

@%<

Those are the Vichy Palestinians.

Hamas Seeks to Attack Israeli Skyscrapers with Planes

Hamas is seeking the ability to attack Israel using small airplanes laden with explosives to be flown September 11-style into Tel Aviv skyscrapers, a leader of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Abu Abdullah, said Wednesday.
Palestinian security officials said they believe Hamas recently smuggled into Gaza three small airplanes that can carry explosives and be used to attack Israel.
They said the aircraft were purchased from Eastern European dealers and that Hamas members received flight training in Sudan, Iran, and Syria.


Seek Peace and pursue it. Uh huh. Only for one side.

Israeli Arabs in the Knesset are one manifestation of democracy which is nowhere to be found in Arab states.

nessie: "Those are the Vichy Palestinians."

Translation: "My antisemitic knee jerks."

@%<

BECKY: While its popular to blame Israel for every aspect of the conflict, Hizbullah in Lebanon has instigated attacks on Israel and been an outlaw Syrian controlled gang in Southern Lebanon where they contribute to instability.

see below:

UN Faults Lebanon for Rocket Attack that Set Off Border Clash with Israel

- Leila Hatoum
(Daily Star-Lebanon)

The UN held Lebanon responsible for launching the first strike in Sunday's clashes along the border with Israel, after several Katyusha rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.
"It is the responsibility of the Lebanese authorities to respect the (UN-demarcated) Blue Line and prevent any attacks across this blue line," Milos Strugar, the senior advisor to the UN commander of the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon, said Monday.

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1: Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."
2: And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
3: Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
4: So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was,
5: and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.
6: You know that I have served your father with all my strength;
7: yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.
8: If he said, `The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, `The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.
9: Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10: In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.
11: Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, `Jacob,' and I said, `Here I am!'
12: And he said, `Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
13: I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go forth from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
14: Then Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?
15: Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.
16: All the property which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
17: So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;
18: and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
19: Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
20: And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.
21: He fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphra'tes, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
22: When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
23: he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.
24: But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, "Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad."
25: And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead.
26: And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have cheated me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27: Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
28: And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
29: It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, `Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.'
30: And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"
31: Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
32: Any one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33: So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered Rachel's.
34: Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
35: And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched, but did not find the household gods.
36: Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban; Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
37: Although you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
38: These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.
39: That which was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40: Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
41: These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42: If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
43: Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44: Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me."
45: So Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar.
46: And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones," and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there by the heap.
47: Laban called it Je'gar-sahadu'tha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48: Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,
49: and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.
50: If you ill-treat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, remember, God is witness between you and me."
51: Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
52: This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
53: The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
54: and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.
55: Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.

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1: Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;
2: and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im.
3: And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,
4: instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
5: and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"
6: And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
7: Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,
8: thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape."
9: And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,'
10: I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11: Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.
12: But thou didst say, `I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
13: So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,
14: two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15: thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.
16: These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
17: He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?'
18: then you shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"
19: He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,
20: and you shall say, `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
21: So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
22: The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23: He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
24: And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25: When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
26: Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me."
27: And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
28: Then he said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."
29: Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me, I pray, your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
30: So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."
31: The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu'el, limping because of his thigh.
32: Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew of the hip.

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1: And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
2: And he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
3: He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4: But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
5: And when Esau raised his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
6: Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;
7: Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
8: Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
9: But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
10: Jacob said, "No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, with such favor have you received me.
11: Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.
12: Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go before you."
13: But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
14: Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Se'ir."
15: So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
16: So Esau returned that day on his way to Se'ir.
17: But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18: And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.
19: And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
20: There he erected an altar and called it El-El'ohe-Israel.

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1: Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;
2: and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.
3: And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.
4: So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this maiden for my wife."
5: Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6: And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7: The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
8: But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you, give her to him in marriage.
9: Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10: You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."
11: Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
12: Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife."
13: The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14: They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
15: Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.
16: Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
17: But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."
18: Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem.
19: And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.
20: So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
21: "These men are friendly with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and let us give them our daughters.
22: Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23: Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."
24: And all who went out of the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25: On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.
26: They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
27: And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;
28: they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
29: all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.
30: Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."
31: But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"

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1: God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
2: So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
3: then let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
4: So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
5: And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6: And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
7: and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
8: And Deb'orah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Al'lon-bacuth.
9: God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10: And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So his name was called Israel.
11: And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.
12: The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you."
13: Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
14: And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15: So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
16: Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
17: And when she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Fear not; for now you will have another son."
18: And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-o'ni; but his father called his name Benjamin.
19: So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
20: and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.
21: Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22: While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23: The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, and Zeb'ulun.
24: The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25: The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naph'tali.
26: The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27: And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28: Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
29: And Isaac breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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1: These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom).
2: Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon the Hivite,
3: and Bas'emath, Ish'mael's daughter, the sister of Neba'ioth.
4: And Adah bore to Esau, El'iphaz; Bas'emath bore Reu'el;
5: and Oholiba'mah bore Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6: Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
7: For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their cattle.
8: So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Se'ir; Esau is Edom.
9: These are the descendants of Esau the father of the E'domites in the hill country of Se'ir.
10: These are the names of Esau's sons: El'iphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reu'el the son of Bas'emath the wife of Esau.
11: The sons of El'iphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
12: (Timna was a concubine of El'iphaz, Esau's son; she bore Am'alek to El'iphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
13: These are the sons of Reu'el: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.
14: These are the sons of Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah.
15: These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of El'iphaz the first-born of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
16: Korah, Gatam, and Am'alek; these are the chiefs of El'iphaz in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.
17: These are the sons of Reu'el, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reu'el in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.
18: These are the sons of Oholiba'mah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
19: These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
20: These are the sons of Se'ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah,
21: Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Se'ir in the land of Edom.
22: The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
23: These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Man'ahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24: These are the sons of Zib'eon: A'iah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the asses of Zib'eon his father.
25: These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah.
26: These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
27: These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Za'avan, and Akan.
28: These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
29: These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah,
30: Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Se'ir.
31: These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
32: Bela the son of Be'or reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Din'habah.
33: Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
34: Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Te'manites reigned in his stead.
35: Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Avith.
36: Hadad died, and Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.
37: Samlah died, and Shaul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes reigned in his stead.
38: Shaul died, and Ba'al-ha'nan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
39: Ba'al-ha'nan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehet'abel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Me'zahab.
40: These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
41: Oholiba'mah, Elah, Pinon,
42: Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
43: Mag'diel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.

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1: Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2: This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.
3: Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves.
4: But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5: Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more.
6: He said to them, "Hear this dream which I have dreamed:
7: behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf."
8: His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words.
9: Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
10: But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
11: And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
12: Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
13: And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
14: So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15: And a man found him wandering in the fields; and the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
16: "I am seeking my brothers," he said, "tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing the flock."
17: And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, `Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them at Dothan.
18: They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
19: They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.
20: Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams."
21: But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."
22: And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him" -- that he might rescue him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
23: So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore;
24: and they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.
25: Then they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of Ish'maelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
26: Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
27: Come, let us sell him to the Ish'maelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers heeded him.
28: Then Mid'ianite traders passed by; and they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ish'maelites for twenty shekels of silver; and they took Joseph to Egypt.
29: When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes
30: and returned to his brothers, and said, "The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?"
31: Then they took Joseph's robe, and killed a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood;
32: and they sent the long robe with sleeves and brought it to their father, and said, "This we have found; see now whether it is your son's robe or not."
33: And he recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe; a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
34: Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35: All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
36: Meanwhile the Mid'ianites had sold him in Egypt to Pot'i-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.

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1: It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2: There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,
3: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
4: Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
5: Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.
6: And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
7: But Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
8: Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
9: But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
10: And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.
11: Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" -- for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
12: In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13: And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
14: she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
15: When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.
16: He went over to her at the road side, and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
17: He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?"
18: He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
19: Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
20: When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.
21: And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the harlot who was at Enaim by the wayside?" And they said, "No harlot has been here."
22: So he returned to Judah, and said, "I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, `No harlot has been here.'"
23: And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her."
24: About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."
25: As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Mark, I pray you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."
26: Then Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not lie with her again.
27: When the time of her delivery came, there were twins in her womb.
28: And when she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, "This came out first."
29: But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out; and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.
30: Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zerah.

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1: Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Pot'i-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ish'maelites who had brought him down there.
2: The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian,
3: and his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.
4: So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
5: From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had, in house and field.
6: So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.
7: And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, "Lie with me."
8: But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Lo, having me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand;
9: he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
10: And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.
11: But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
12: she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and got out of the house.
13: And when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had fled out of the house,
14: she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;
15: and when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled and got out of the house."
16: Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
17: and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to insult me;
18: but as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out of the house."
19: When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
20: And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
21: But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22: And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he was the doer of it;
23: the keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made it prosper.

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1: Some time after this, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
2: And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker,
3: and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
4: The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he waited on them; and they continued for some time in custody.
5: And one night they both dreamed -- the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison -- each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.
6: When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, they were troubled.
7: So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"
8: They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you."
9: So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,
10: and on the vine there were three branches; as soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.
11: Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand."
12: Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;
13: within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his butler.
14: But remember me, when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you, to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
15: For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
16: When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,
17: and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head."
18: And Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
19: within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head -- from you! -- and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat the flesh from you."
20: On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
21: He restored the chief butler to his butlership, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand;
22: but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23: Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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1: After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
2: and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed in the reed grass.
3: And behold, seven other cows, gaunt and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
4: And the gaunt and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
5: And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.
6: And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.
7: And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
8: So in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret it to Pharaoh.
9: Then the chief butler said to Pharaoh, "I remember my faults today.
10: When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,
11: we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.
12: A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard; and when we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
13: And as he interpreted to us, so it came to pass; I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."
14: Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
15: And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
16: Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."
17: Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;
18: and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass;
19: and seven other cows came up after them, poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.
20: And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the first seven fat cows,
21: but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as gaunt as at the beginning. Then I awoke.
22: I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good;
23: and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,
24: and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
25: Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26: The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.
27: The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.
28: It is as I told Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
29: There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,
30: but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,
31: and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which will follow, for it will be very grievous.
32: And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33: Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34: Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.
35: And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
36: That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."
37: This proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
38: And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a man as this, in whom is the Spirit of God?"
39: So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are;
40: you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
41: And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
42: Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43: and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44: Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
45: And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaph'enath-pane'ah; and he gave him in marriage As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46: Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt.
47: During the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly,
48: and he gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.
49: And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
50: Before the year of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera priest of On, bore to him.
51: Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas'seh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
52: The name of the second he called E'phraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
53: The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt came to an end;
54: and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55: When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do."
56: So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
57: Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

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1: When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
2: And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die."
3: So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
4: But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might befall him.
5: Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6: Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
7: Joseph saw his brothers, and knew them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
8: Thus Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.
9: And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of them; and he said to them, "You are spies, you have come to see the weakness of the land."
10: They said to him, "No, my lord, but to buy food have your servants come.
11: We are all sons of one man, we are honest men, your servants are not spies."
12: He said to them, "No, it is the weakness of the land that you have come to see."
13: And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
14: But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you, you are spies.
15: By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
16: Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."
17: And he put them all together in prison for three days.
18: On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
19: if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,
20: and bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.
21: Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us."
22: And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."
23: They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
24: Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
25: And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
26: Then they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed.
27: And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack;
28: and he said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
29: When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,
30: "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the land.
31: But we said to him, `We are honest men, we are not spies;
32: we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
33: Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, `By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
34: Bring your youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.'"
35: As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.
36: And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me."
37: Then Reuben said to his father, "Slay my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."
38: But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

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1: Now the famine was severe in the land.
2: And when they had eaten the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."
3: But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, `You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
4: If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food;
5: but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, `You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
6: Israel said, "Why did you treat me so ill as to tell the man that you had another brother?"
7: They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, `Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions; could we in any way know that he would say, `Bring your brother down'?"
8: And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
9: I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever;
10: for if we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice."
11: Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
12: Take double the money with you; carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.
13: Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man;
14: may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
15: So the men took the present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16: When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
17: The man did as Joseph bade him, and brought the men to Joseph's house.
18: And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses."
19: So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house, and spoke with him at the door of the house,
20: and said, "Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food;
21: and when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was every man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it again with us,
22: and we have brought other money down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
23: He replied, "Rest assured, do not be afraid; your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your sacks for you; I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.
24: And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house, and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their asses provender,
25: they made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
26: When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the ground.
27: And he inquired about their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
28: They said, "Your servant our father is well, he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and made obeisance.
29: And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
30: Then Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
31: Then he washed his face and came out; and controlling himself he said, "Let food be served."
32: They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
33: And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked at one another in amazement.
34: Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

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Biblical Atrocities

Compiled by Donald Morgan

NOTE: These lists are meant to identify possible problems in the Bible, especially problems which are inherent in a literalist or fundamentalist interpretation. Some of the selections may be resolvable on certain interpretations--after all, almost any problem can be eliminated with suitable rationalizations--but it is the reader's obligation to test this possibility and to decide whether it really makes appropriate sense to do this. To help readers in this task, these lists are aimed at presenting examples where problems may exist given certain allowable (but not always obligatory) assumptions. It should be kept in mind that a perfect and omnipotent God could, should, and likely would see to it that such problems did not exist in a book which s/he had inspired.

Note: In the Bible, words having to do with killing significantly outnumber words having to do with love.

GE 3:1-7, 22-24 God allows Adam and Eve to be deceived by the Serpent (the craftiest of all of God's wild creatures). They eat of the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil," thereby incurring death for themselves and all of mankind for ever after. God prevents them from regaining eternal life, by placing a guard around the "Tree of Eternal Life." (Note: God could have done the same for the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" in the first place and would thereby have prevented the Fall of man, the necessity for Salvation, the Crucifixion of Jesus, etc.)

GE 4:2-8 God's arbitrary preference of Abel's offering to that of Cain's provokes Cain to commit the first biblically recorded murder and kill his brother Abel.

GE 34:13-29 The Israelites kill Hamor, his son, and all the men of their village, taking as plunder their wealth, cattle, wives and children.

GE 6:11-17, 7:11-24 God is unhappy with the wickedness of man and decides to do something about it. He kills every living thing on the face of the earth other than Noah's family and thereby makes himself the greatest mass murderer in history.

GE 19:26 God personally sees to it that Lot's wife is turned to a pillar of salt (for having looked behind her while fleeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah).

GE 38:9 "... whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked ..., so the Lord put him to death."

EX 2:12 Moses murders an Egyptian.

EX 7:1, 14, 9:14-16, 10:1-2, 11:7 The purpose of the devastation that God brings to the Egyptians is as follows:
to show that he is Lord;
to show that there is none like him in all the earth;
to show his great power;
to cause his name to be declared throughout the earth;
to give the Israelites something to talk about with their children;
to show that he makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt.

EX 9:22-25 A plague of hail from the Lord strikes down everything in the fields of Egypt both man and beast except in Goshen where the Israelites reside.

EX 12:29 The Lord kills all the first-born in the land of Egypt.

EX 17:13 With the Lord's approval, Joshua mows down Amalek and his people.

EX 21:20-21 With the Lord's approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't die too quickly.

EX 32:27 "Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

EX 32:27-29 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites slay 3000 men.

LE 26:7-8 The Lord promises the Israelites that, if they are obedient, their enemies will "fall before your sword."

LE 26:22 "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children."

LE 26:29, DT 28:53, JE 19:9, EZ 5:8-10 As a punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.

LE 27:29 Human sacrifice is condoned. (Note: An example is given in JG 11:30-39)

NU 11:33 The Lord smites the people with a great plague.

NU 12:1-10 God makes Miriam a leper for seven days because she and Aaron had spoken against Moses.

NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lord's command.

NU 16:27-33 The Lord causes the earth to open and swallow up the men and their households (including wives and children) because the men had been rebellious.

NU 16:35 A fire from the Lord consumes 250 men.

NU 16:49 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700 people.

NU 21:3 The Israelites utterly destroy the Canaanites.

NU 21:6 Fiery serpents, sent by the Lord, kill many Israelites.

NU 21:35 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites slay Og "... and his sons and all his people, until there was not one survivor left ...."

NU 25:4 (KJV) "And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun ...."

NU 25:8 "He went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly."

NU 25:9 24,000 people die in a plague from the Lord.

NU 31:9 The Israelites capture Midianite women and children.

NU 31:17-18 Moses, following the Lord's command, orders the Israelites to kill all the Midianite male children and "... every woman who has known man ...." (Note: How would it be determined which women had known men? One can only speculate.)

NU 31:31-40 32,000 virgins are taken by the Israelites as booty. Thirty-two are set aside (to be sacrificed?) as a tribute for the Lord.

DT 2:33-34 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Sihon.

DT 3:6 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Og.

DT 7:2 The Lord commands the Israelites to "utterly destroy" and shown "no mercy" to those whom he gives them for defeat.

DT 20:13-14 "When the Lord delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the males .... As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves."

DT 20:16 "In the cities of the nations the Lord is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes."

DT 21:10-13 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites are allowed to take "beautiful women" from the enemy camp to be their captive wives. If, after sexual relations, the husband has "no delight" in his wife, he can simply let her go.

DT 28:53 "You will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you."

JS 1:1-9, 18 Joshua receives the Lord's blessing for all the bloody endeavors to follow.

JS 6:21-27 With the Lord's approval, Joshua destroys the city of Jericho men, women, and children with the edge of the sword.

JS 7:19-26 Achan, his children and his cattle are stoned to death because Achan had taken a taboo thing.

JS 8:22-25 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly smites the people of Ai, killing 12,000 men and women, so that there were none who escaped.

JS 10:10-27 With the help of the Lord, Joshua utterly destroys the Gibeonites.

JS 10:28 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Makkedah.

JS 10:30 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Libnahites.

JS 10:32-33 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Lachish.

JS 10:34-35 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Eglonites.

JS 10:36-37 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Hebronites.

JS 10:38-39 With the Lord's approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Debirites.

JS 10:40 (A summary statement.) "So Joshua defeated the whole land ...; he left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded."

JS 11:6 The Lord orders horses to be hamstrung. (Exceedingly cruel.)

JS 11:8-15 "And the lord gave them into the hand of Israel, ...utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed ...."

JS 11:20 "For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the Lord commanded Moses."

JS 11:21-23 Joshua utterly destroys the Anakim.

JG 1:4 With the Lord's support, Judah defeats 10,000 Canaanites at Bezek.

JG 1:6 With the Lord's approval, Judah pursues Adoni-bezek, catches him, and cuts off his thumbs and big toes.

JG 1:8 With the Lord's approval, Judah smites Jerusalem.

JG 1:17 With the Lord's approval, Judah and Simeon utterly destroy the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath.

JG 3:29 The Israelites kill about 10,000 Moabites.

JG 3:31 (A restatement.) Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.

JG 4:21 Jael takes a tent stake and hammers it through the head of Sisera, fastening it to the ground.

JG 7:19-25 The Gideons defeat the Midianites, slay their princes, cut off their heads, and bring the heads back to Gideon.

JG 8:15-21 The Gideons slaughter the men of Penuel.

JG 9:5 Abimalech murders his brothers.

JG 9:45 Abimalech and his men kill all the people in the city.

JG 9:53-54 "A woman dropped a stone on his head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, 'Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say a woman killed me.' So his servant ran him through, and he died."

JG 11:29-39 Jepthah sacrifices his beloved daughter, his only child, according to a vow he has made with the Lord.

JG 14:19 The Spirit of the Lord comes upon a man and causes him to slay thirty men.

JG 15:15 Samson slays 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass.

JG 16:21 The Philistines gouge out Samson's eyes.

JG 16:27-30 Samson, with the help of the Lord, pulls down the pillars of the Philistine house and causes his own death and that of 3000 other men and women.

JG 18:27 The Danites slay the quiet and unsuspecting people of Laish.

JG 19:22-29 A group of sexual depraved men beat on the door of an old man's house demanding that he turn over to them a male house guest. Instead, the old man offers his virgin daughter and his guest's concubine (or wife): "Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing." The man's concubine is ravished and dies. The man then cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

JG 20:43-48 The Israelites smite 25,000+ "men of valor" from amongst the Benjamites, "men and beasts and all that they found," and set their towns on fire.

JG 21:10-12 "... Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword and; also the women and little ones.... every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy." They do so and find four hundred young virgins whom they bring back for their own use.

1SA 4:10 The Philistines slay 30,000 Israelite foot soldiers.

1SA 5:6-9 The Lord afflicts the Philistines with tumors in their "secret parts," presumably for having stolen the Ark.

1SA 6:19 God kills seventy men (or so) for looking into the Ark (at him?). (Note: The early Israelites apparently thought the Ark to be God's abode.)

1SA 7:7-11 Samuel and his men smite the Philistines.

1SA 11:11 With the Lord's blessing, Saul and his men cut down the Ammonites.

1SA 14:31 Jonathan and his men strike down the Philistines.

1SA 14:48 Saul smites the Amalekites.

1SA 15:3, 7-8 "This is what the Lord says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass ....' And Saul ... utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."

1SA 15:33 "Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord ...."

1SA 18:7 The women sing as they make merry: "Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands."

1SA 18:27 David murders 200 Philistines, then cuts off their foreskins.

1SA 30:17 David smites the Amalekites.

2SA 2:23 Abner kills Asahel.

2SA 3:30 Joab and Abishai kill Abner.

2SA 4:7-8 Rechan and Baanah kill Ish-bosheth, behead him, and take his head to David.

2SA 4:12 David has Rechan and Baanah killed, their hands and feet cut off, and their bodies hanged by the pool at Hebron.

2SA 5:25 "And David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines ...."

2SA 6:2-23 Because she rebuked him for having exposed himself, Michal (David's wife) was barren throughout her life.

2SA 8:1-18 (A listing of some of David's murderous conquests.)

2SA 8:4 David hamstrung all but a few of the horses.

2SA 8:5 David slew 22,000 Syrians.

2SA 8:6, 14 "The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went."

2SA 8:13 David slew 18,000 Edomites in the valley of salt and made the rest slaves.

2SA 10:18 David slew 47,000+ Syrians.

2SA 11:14-27 David has Uriah killed so that he can marry Uriah's wife, Bathsheba.

2SA 12:1, 19 The Lord strikes David's child dead for the sin that David has committed.

2SA 13:1-15 Amnon loves his sister Tamar, rapes her, then hates her.

2SA 13:28-29 Absalom has Amnon murdered.

2SA 18:6 -7 20,000 men are slaughtered at the battle in the forest of Ephraim.

2SA 18:15 Joab's men murder Absalom.

2SA 20:10-12 Joab's men murder Amasa and leave him "... wallowing in his own blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped."

2SA 24:15 The Lord sends a pestilence on Israel that kills 70,000 men.

1KI 2:24-25 Solomon has Adonijah murdered.

1KI 2:29-34 Solomon has Joab murdered.

1KI 2:46 Solomon has Shime-i murdered.

1KI 13:15-24 A man is killed by a lion for eating bread and drinking water in a place where the Lord had previously told him not to. This is in spite of the fact that the man had subsequently been lied to by a prophet who told the man that an angel of the Lord said that it would be alright to eat and drink there.

1KI 20:29-30 The Israelites smite 100,000 Syrian soldiers in one day. A wall falls on 27,000 remaining Syrians.

2KI 1:10-12 Fire from heaven comes down and consumes fifty men.

2KI 2:23-24 Forty-two children are mauled and killed, presumably according to the will of God, for having jeered at a man of God.

2KI 5:27 Elisha curses Gehazi and his descendants forever with leprosy.

2KI 6:18-19 The Lord answers Elisha's prayer and strikes the Syrians with blindness. Elisha tricks the blind Syrians and leads them to Samaria.

2KI 6:29 "So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."

2KI 9:24 Jehu tricks and murders Joram.

2KI 9:27 Jehu has Ahaziah killed.

2KI 9:30-37 Jehu has Jezebel killed. Her body is trampled by horses. Dogs eat her flesh so that only her skull, feet, and the palms of her hands remain.

2KI 10:7 Jehu has Ahab's seventy sons beheaded, then sends the heads to their father.

2KI 10:14 Jehu has forty-two of Ahab's kin killed.

2KI 10:17 "And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord ...."

2KI 10:19-27 Jehu uses trickery to massacre the Baal worshippers.

2KI 11:1 Athaliah destroys all the royal family.

2KI 14:5, 7 Amaziah kills his servants and then 10,000 Edomites.

2KI 15:3-5 Even though he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, the Lord smites Azariah with leprosy for not having removed the "high places."

2KI 15:16 Menahem ripped open all the women who were pregnant.

2KI 19:35 An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men.

1CH 20:3 (KJV) "And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes."

2CH 13:17 500,000 Israelites are slaughtered.

2CH 21:4 Jehoram slays all his brothers.

PS 137:9 Happy will be the man who dashes your little ones against the stones.

PS 144:1 God is praised as the one who trains hands for war and fingers for battle.

IS 13:15 "Everyone who is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their ... wives will be ravished."

IS 13:18 "Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children."

IS 14:21-22 "Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers."

IS 49:26 The Lord will cause the oppressors of the Israelite's to eat their own flesh and to become drunk on their own blood as with wine.

JE 16:4 "They shall die grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."

LA 4:9-10 "Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food. ... pitiful women have cooked their own children, who became their food ..."

EZ 6:12-13 The Lord says: "... they will fall by the sword, famine and plague. He that is far away will die of the plague, and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them. And they will know I am the Lord, when the people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak ...."

EZ 9:4-6 The Lord commands: "... slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women ...."

EZ 20:26 In order that he might horrify them, the Lord allowed the Israelites to defile themselves through, amongst other things, the sacrifice of their first-born children.

EZ 21:3-4 The Lord says that he will cut off both the righteous and the wicked that his sword shall go against all flesh.

EZ 23:25, 47 God is going to slay the sons and daughters of those who were whores.

EZ 23:34 "You shall ... pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts."

HO 13:16 "They shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."

MI 3:2-3 "... who pluck off their skin ..., and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

MT 3:12, 8:12, 10:21, 13:30, 42, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30, LK 13:28, JN 5:24 Some will spend eternity burning in Hell. There will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

MT 10:21 "... the brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and the father his child, ... children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death."

MT 10:35-36 "For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a man's enemies will be the members of his own family."

MT 11:21-24 Jesus curses [the inhabitants of] three cities who were not sufficiently impressed with his great works.

AC 13:11 Paul purposefully blinds a man (though not permanently).

Thats how you can tell its not a "fairytale", it shows people and Late Bronze Age society, warts and all.

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Chapter 1
2 Samuel, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.01




1: After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amal'ekites, David remained two days in Ziklag;
2: and on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.
3: David said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."
4: And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."
5: Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"
6: And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilbo'a; and there was Saul leaning upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
7: And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, `Here I am.'
8: And he said to me, `Who are you?' I answered him, `I am an Amal'ekite.'
9: And he said to me, `Stand beside me and slay me; for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.'
10: So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen; and I took the crown which was on his head and the armlet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."
11: Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him;
12: and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
13: And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amal'ekite."
14: David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"
15: Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, fall upon him." And he smote him so that he died.
16: And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, `I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'"
17: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,
18: and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:
19: "Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
20: Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ash'kelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
21: "Ye mountains of Gilbo'a, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
22: "From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
23: "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
24: "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
25: "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.
26: I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
27: "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"


Chapter 2
2 Samuel, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.02




1: After this David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."
2: So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
3: And David brought up his men who were with him, every one with his household; and they dwelt in the towns of Hebron.
4: And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead who buried Saul,"
5: David sent messengers to the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead, and said to them, "May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord, and buried him!
6: Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.
7: Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
8: Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahana'im;
9: and he made him king over Gilead and the Ash'urites and Jezreel and E'phraim and Benjamin and all Israel.
10: Ish-bo'sheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
11: And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
12: Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahana'im to Gibeon.
13: And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah, and the servants of David, went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
14: And Abner said to Jo'ab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Jo'ab said, "Let them arise."
15: Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
16: And each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his opponent's side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Hel'kath-hazzu'rim, which is at Gibeon.
17: And the battle was very fierce that day; and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.
18: And the three sons of Zeru'iah were there, Jo'ab, Abi'shai, and As'ahel. Now As'ahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle;
19: and As'ahel pursued Abner, and as he went he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
20: Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is it you, As'ahel?" And he answered, "It is I."
21: Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men, and take his spoil." But As'ahel would not turn aside from following him.
22: And Abner said again to As'ahel, "Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Jo'ab?"
23: But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where As'ahel had fallen and died, stood still.
24: But Jo'ab and Abi'shai pursued Abner; and as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Gi'ah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
25: And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.
26: Then Abner called to Jo'ab, "Shall the sword devour for ever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you bid your people turn from the pursuit of their brethren?"
27: And Jo'ab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would have given up the pursuit of their brethren in the morning."
28: So Jo'ab blew the trumpet; and all the men stopped, and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight any more.
29: And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole forenoon they came to Mahana'im.
30: Jo'ab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides As'ahel.
31: But the servants of David had slain of Benjamin three hundred and sixty of Abner's men.
32: And they took up As'ahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Jo'ab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.


Chapter 3
2 Samuel, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.03




1: There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
2: And sons were born to David at Hebron: his first-born was Amnon, of Ahin'o-am of Jezreel;
3: and his second, Chil'e-ab, of Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Ab'salom the son of Ma'acah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4: and the fourth, Adoni'jah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephati'ah the son of Abi'tal;
5: and the sixth, Ith're-am, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
6: While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.
7: Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Ai'ah; and Ish-bo'sheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"
8: Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bo'sheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? This day I keep showing loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
9: God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him,
10: to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beer-sheba."
11: And Ish-bo'sheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
12: And Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you."
13: And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you; but one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."
14: Then David sent messengers to Ish-bo'sheth Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed at the price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
15: And Ish-bo'sheth sent, and took her from her husband Pal'ti-el the son of La'ish.
16: But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahu'rim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return"; and he returned.
17: And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, "For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.
18: Now then bring it about; for the LORD has promised David, saying, `By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.'"
19: Abner also spoke to Benjamin; and then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.
20: When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
21: And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
22: Just then the servants of David arrived with Jo'ab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
23: When Jo'ab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Jo'ab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace."
24: Then Jo'ab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?
25: You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."
26: When Jo'ab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah; but David did not know about it.
27: And when Abner returned to Hebron, Jo'ab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of As'ahel his brother.
28: Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are for ever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
29: May it fall upon the head of Jo'ab, and upon all his father's house; and may the house of Jo'ab never be without one who has a discharge, or who is leprous, or who holds a spindle, or who is slain by the sword, or who lacks bread!"
30: So Jo'ab and Abi'shai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother As'ahel in the battle at Gibeon.
31: Then David said to Jo'ab and to all the people who were with him, "Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
32: They buried Abner at Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
33: And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?
34: Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen." And all the people wept again over him.
35: Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"
36: And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as everything that the king did pleased all the people.
37: So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.
38: And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
39: And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru'iah are too hard for me. The LORD requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!"


Chapter 4
2 Samuel, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.04




1: When Ish-bo'sheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.
2: Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Ba'anah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-er'oth (for Be-er'oth also is reckoned to Benjamin;
3: the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).
4: Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled; and, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephib'osheth.
5: Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, Rechab and Ba'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bo'sheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.
6: And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept; so Rechab and Ba'anah his brother slipped in.
7: When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,
8: and brought the head of Ish-bo'sheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bo'sheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring."
9: But David answered Rechab and Ba'anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
10: when one told me, `Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
11: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?"
12: And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.


Chapter 5
2 Samuel, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.05




1: Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
2: In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD said to you, `You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"
3: So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
4: David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5: At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
6: And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off" -- thinking, "David cannot come in here."
7: Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
8: And David said on that day, "Whoever would smite the Jeb'usites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."
9: And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built the city round about from the Millo inward.
10: And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.
11: And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
12: And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
13: And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
14: And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Sham'mu-a, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
15: Ibhar, Eli'shu-a, Nepheg, Japhi'a,
16: Eli'shama, Eli'ada, and Eliph'elet.
17: When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; but David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
18: Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.
19: And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand."
20: And David came to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and he said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.
21: And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.
22: And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.
23: And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.
24: And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the LORD has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."
25: And David did as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.


Chapter 6
2 Samuel, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.06




1: David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2: And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
3: And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abin'adab which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahi'o, the sons of Abin'adab, were driving the new cart
4: with the ark of God; and Ahi'o went before the ark.
5: And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
6: And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.
7: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.
8: And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Pe'rez-uz'zah, to this day.
9: And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?"
10: So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.
11: And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed O'bed-e'dom and all his household.
12: And it was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of O'bed-e'dom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of O'bed-e'dom to the city of David with rejoicing;
13: and when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
14: And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15: So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.
16: As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
17: And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18: And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts,
19: and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
20: And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
21: And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD -- and I will make merry before the LORD.
22: I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."
23: And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.


Chapter 7
2 Samuel, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.07




1: Now when the king dwelt in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies round about,
2: the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."
3: And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for the LORD is with you."
4: But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,
5: "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
6: I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.
7: In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
8: Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;
9: and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
10: And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,
11: from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.
12: When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
13: He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
14: I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;
15: but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
16: And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.'"
17: In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
18: Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
19: And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O Lord GOD; thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord GOD!
20: And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!
21: Because of thy promise, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
22: Therefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23: What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?
24: And thou didst establish for thyself thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.
25: And now, O LORD God, confirm for ever the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, and do as thou hast spoken;
26: and thy name will be magnified for ever, saying, `The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.
27: For thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast made this revelation to thy servant, saying, `I will build you a house'; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray this prayer to thee.
28: And now, O Lord GOD, thou art God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;
29: now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken, and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever."


Chapter 8
2 Samuel, chapter 8


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1: After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Meth'eg-am'mah out of the hand of the Philistines.
2: And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
3: David also defeated Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphra'tes.
4: And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.
5: And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadade'zer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
6: Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
7: And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadade'zer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
8: And from Betah and from Bero'thai, cities of Hadade'zer, King David took very much bronze.
9: When To'i king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer,
10: To'i sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'i. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;
11: these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
12: from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Am'alek, and from the spoil of Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
13: And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.
14: And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
15: So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.
16: And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah was over the army; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;
17: and Zadok the son of Ahi'tub and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar were priests; and Serai'ah was secretary;
18: and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was over the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and David's sons were priests.


Chapter 9
2 Samuel, chapter 9


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1: And David said, "Is there still any one left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
2: Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "Your servant is he."
3: And the king said, "Is there not still some one of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet."
4: The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Am'miel, at Lo-debar."
5: Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Am'miel, at Lo-debar.
6: And Mephib'osheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And David said, "Mephib'osheth!" And he answered, "Behold, your servant."
7: And David said to him, "Do not fear; for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat at my table always."
8: And he did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?"
9: Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's son.
10: And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him, and shall bring in the produce, that your master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephib'osheth your master's son shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
11: Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephib'osheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.
12: And Mephib'osheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who dwelt in Ziba's house became Mephib'osheth's servants.
13: So Mephib'osheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet.


Chapter 10
2 Samuel, chapter 10


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1: After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
2: And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.
3: But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"
4: So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off half the beard of each, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.
5: When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."
6: When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-re'hob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Ma'acah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.
7: And when David heard of it, he sent Jo'ab and all the host of the mighty men.
8: And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Ma'acah, were by themselves in the open country.
9: When Jo'ab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians;
10: the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.
11: And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
12: Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."
13: So Jo'ab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.
14: And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab returned from fighting against the Ammonites, and came to Jerusalem.
15: But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
16: And Hadade'zer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.
17: And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians arrayed themselves against David, and fought with him.
18: And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.
19: And when all the kings who were servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel, and became subject to them. So the Syrians feared to help the Ammonites any more.


Chapter 11
2 Samuel, chapter 11


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1: In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2: It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
3: And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathshe'ba, the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?"
4: So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
5: And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am with child."
6: So David sent word to Jo'ab, "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.
7: When Uri'ah came to him, David asked how Jo'ab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
8: Then David said to Uri'ah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uri'ah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
9: But Uri'ah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10: When they told David, "Uri'ah did not go down to his house," David said to Uri'ah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11: Uri'ah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Jo'ab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."
12: Then David said to Uri'ah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uri'ah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.
13: And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14: In the morning David wrote a letter to Jo'ab, and sent it by the hand of Uri'ah.
15: In the letter he wrote, "Set Uri'ah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die."
16: And as Jo'ab was besieging the city, he assigned Uri'ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
17: And the men of the city came out and fought with Jo'ab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uri'ah the Hittite was slain also.
18: Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;
19: and he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,
20: then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, `Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21: Who killed Abim'elech the son of Jerub'besheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, `Your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also.'"
22: So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Jo'ab had sent him to tell.
23: The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
24: Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king's servants are dead; and your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also."
25: David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Jo'ab, `Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage him."
26: When the wife of Uri'ah heard that Uri'ah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27: And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.


Chapter 12
2 Samuel, chapter 12


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1: And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
2: The rich man had very many flocks and herds;
3: but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.
4: Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
5: Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;
6: and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."
7: Nathan said to David, "You are the man. Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
8: and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
9: Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uri'ah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10: Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite to be your wife.'
11: Thus says the LORD, `Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12: For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
13: David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
14: Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child that is born to you shall die."
15: Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uri'ah's wife bore to David, and it became sick.
16: David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.
17: And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
18: On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."
19: But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."
20: Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.
21: Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."
22: He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, `Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
23: But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
24: Then David comforted his wife, Bathshe'ba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him,
25: and sent a message by Nathan the prophet; so he called his name Jedidi'ah, because of the LORD.
26: Now Jo'ab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.
27: And Jo'ab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.
28: Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name."
29: So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.
30: And he took the crown of their king from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
31: And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.


Chapter 13
2 Samuel, chapter 13


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1: Now Ab'salom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.
2: And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.
3: But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jon'adab, the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother; and Jon'adab was a very crafty man.
4: And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Ab'salom's sister."
5: Jon'adab said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, `Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"
6: So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
7: Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."
8: So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
9: And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Send out every one from me." So every one went out from him.
10: Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11: But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."
12: She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.
13: As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."
14: But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
15: Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone."
16: But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
17: He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."
18: Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
19: And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent the long robe which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.
20: And her brother Ab'salom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.
21: When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
22: But Ab'salom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Ab'salom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
23: After two full years Ab'salom had sheepshearers at Ba'al-ha'zor, which is near E'phraim, and Ab'salom invited all the king's sons.
24: And Ab'salom came to the king, and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; pray let the king and his servants go with your servant."
25: But the king said to Ab'salom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.
26: Then Ab'salom said, "If not, pray let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"
27: But Ab'salom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
28: Then Ab'salom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, `Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."
29: So the servants of Ab'salom did to Amnon as Ab'salom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.
30: While they were on the way, tidings came to David, "Ab'salom has slain all the king's sons, and not one of them is left."
31: Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants who were standing by rent their garments.
32: But Jon'adab the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother, said, "Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead, for by the command of Ab'salom this has been determined from the day he forced his sister Tamar.
33: Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon alone is dead."
34: But Ab'salom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the Horona'im road by the side of the mountain.
35: And Jon'adab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about."
36: And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.
37: But Ab'salom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammi'hud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
38: So Ab'salom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
39: And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Ab'salom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.


Chapter 14
2 Samuel, chapter 14


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1: Now Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah perceived that the king's heart went out to Ab'salom.
2: And Jo'ab sent to Teko'a, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;
3: and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.
4: When the woman of Teko'a came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."
5: And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
6: And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.
7: And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, `Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew'; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth."
8: Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."
9: And the woman of Teko'a said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."
10: The king said, "If any one says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again."
11: Then she said, "Pray let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
12: Then the woman said, "Pray let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."
13: And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.
14: We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.
15: Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, `I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
16: For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'
17: And your handmaid thought, `The word of my lord the king will set me at rest'; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"
18: Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."
19: The king said, "Is the hand of Jo'ab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Jo'ab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.
20: In order to change the course of affairs your servant Jo'ab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."
21: Then the king said to Jo'ab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Ab'salom."
22: And Jo'ab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Jo'ab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."
23: So Jo'ab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Ab'salom to Jerusalem.
24: And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Ab'salom dwelt apart in his own house, and did not come into the king's presence.
25: Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his beauty as Ab'salom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
26: And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.
27: There were born to Ab'salom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.
28: So Ab'salom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.
29: Then Ab'salom sent for Jo'ab, to send him to the king; but Jo'ab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Jo'ab would not come.
30: Then he said to his servants, "See, Jo'ab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Ab'salom's servants set the field on fire.
31: Then Jo'ab arose and went to Ab'salom at his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
32: Ab'salom answered Jo'ab, "Behold, I sent word to you, `Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.'"
33: Then Jo'ab went to the king, and told him; and he summoned Ab'salom. So he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Ab'salom.


Chapter 15
2 Samuel, chapter 15


Compare with King James Version: 2Sam.15




1: After this Ab'salom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2: And Ab'salom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Ab'salom would call to him, and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"
3: Ab'salom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you."
4: Ab'salom said moreover, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
5: And whenever a man came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand, and take hold of him, and kiss him.
6: Thus Ab'salom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Ab'salom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
7: And at the end of four years Ab'salom said to the king, "Pray let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.
8: For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, `If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.'"
9: The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.
10: But Ab'salom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, `Ab'salom is king at Hebron!'"
11: With Ab'salom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their simplicity, and knew nothing.
12: And while Ab'salom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahith'ophel the Gi'lonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Ab'salom kept increasing.
13: And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Ab'salom."
14: Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Ab'salom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."
15: And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides."
16: So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
17: And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they halted at the last house.
18: And all his servants passed by him; and all the Cher'ethites, and all the Pel'ethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19: Then the king said to It'tai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home.
20: You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."
21: But It'tai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."
22: And David said to It'tai, "Go then, pass on." So It'tai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.
23: And all the country wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
24: And Abi'athar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.
25: Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation;
26: but if he says, `I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him."
27: The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Look, go back to the city in peace, you and Abi'athar, with