These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 5
Tanakh 25 verses
- 1 Then came all the tribes of to unto , and spoke, saying: ‘Behold, we are thy bone and thy .
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In times past, when was over us, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in ; and said to thee: Thou shalt feed My people , and thou shalt be prince over .’
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Matthew 2:6 2 Samuel 7:7 1 Samuel 18:16 Isaiah 55:4 1 Samuel 25:30 1 Samuel 18:13 1 Samuel 16:1 Isaiah 40:11 2 Kings 20:5 Numbers 27:17 Hebrews 2:10 Ezekiel 34:23 Ezekiel 37:24-25 1 Samuel 9:16 Micah 5:4 1 Samuel 25:28 1 Samuel 13:14 Psalm 78:70-72 1 Samuel 18:5 John 10:11 1 Samuel 16:12-13 John 10:3-4 - 3 So all the elders of came to the to ; and made a with them in before ; and they anointed over .
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was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
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In he reigned over seven years and six months; and in he reigned thirty and three years over all and .
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- 6 And the and his men went to against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto , saying: ‘Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither’; thinking: ‘ cannot come in hither.’
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Nevertheless took the stronghold of ; the same is the city of .
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And said on that day: ‘Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutter, and [taketh away] the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s —.’ Wherefore they say: ‘There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.’
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And dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of . And built round about from Millo and inward.
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And waxed greater and greater; for , the of hosts, was with him.
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- 11 And Hiram of sent messengers to , and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built a house.
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And perceived that had established him over , and that He had exalted his for His people Israel’s sake.
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- 13 And took him more concubines and wives out of , after he was come from ; and there were yet sons and daughters born to .
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And these are the names of those that were born unto him in : Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and ;
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and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia;
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and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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And when the Philistines heard that was anointed over , all the Philistines went up to seek ; and heard of it, and went down to the hold.
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Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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- 19 And inquired of , saying: ‘Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?’ And said unto : ‘Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.’
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And came to Baal-perazim, and smote them there; and he said: ‘The hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters.’ Therefore the of that place was called Baal-perazim.
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And they left their images there, and and his men took them away.
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And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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And when inquired of , He said: ‘Thou shalt not go up; make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
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And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.’
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And did so, as commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.
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