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II Samuel Chapter 4

II Samuel
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II Samuel

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In this chapter David defeats the giant Goliath with a sling and a stone, and the Israelites rejoice. He then goes to the house of his mother, where he is anointed king and his wife Michal is forced to leave because of her displeasure. The chapter shows God’s power in battle and the beginning of David’s reign.

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(1) And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
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II Samuel 17:2Ezra 4:4Nehemiah 6:9Isaiah 13:7Isaiah 35:3Jeremiah 6:24Jeremiah 50:43Zephaniah 3:16Matthew 2:2Matthew 2:3

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II Samuel 3:19II Samuel 3:20II Samuel 3:32II Samuel 4:12I Samuel 14:50I Samuel 17:55

(2) And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
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II Samuel 3:22II Kings 5:2II Kings 6:23Joshua 9:17Joshua 18:25

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II Kings 24:2Numbers 2:22Judges 1:21II Samuel 3:19II Chronicles 25:5Deuteronomy 1:15

(3) And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
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I Samuel 31:7Nehemiah 11:33

(4) And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
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II Samuel 9:3I Samuel 29:1I Samuel 29:11I Samuel 31:1I Samuel 31:2I Samuel 31:3I Samuel 31:4I Samuel 31:5I Samuel 31:6I Samuel 31:7I Samuel 31:8I Samuel 31:9

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I Samuel 14:13I Samuel 19:7Judges 5:27II Samuel 9:6II Samuel 9:3I Samuel 19:2

(5) And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
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II Chronicles 24:25II Chronicles 25:27II Chronicles 33:24II Samuel 11:2I Kings 16:9Proverbs 24:33Proverbs 24:34I Thessalonians 5:3I Thessalonians 5:4I Thessalonians 5:5I Thessalonians 5:6I Thessalonians 5:7

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II Samuel 4:2II Samuel 4:9II Kings 5:18

(6) And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 20:10

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II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 20:10Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(7) For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
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I Samuel 17:54I Samuel 31:9II Kings 10:6II Kings 10:7Matthew 14:11Mark 6:28Mark 6:29

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Genesis 19:33Genesis 19:35I Samuel 26:7I Samuel 17:35

(8) And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
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I Samuel 18:11I Samuel 19:2I Samuel 19:3I Samuel 19:4I Samuel 19:5I Samuel 19:6I Samuel 19:7I Samuel 19:8I Samuel 19:9I Samuel 19:10I Samuel 19:11I Samuel 19:15

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II Samuel 4:12Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26

(9) And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
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Genesis 48:16I Kings 1:29Psalms 31:5Psalms 31:6Psalms 31:7Psalms 34:6Psalms 34:7Psalms 34:17Psalms 34:22Psalms 71:23Psalms 103:4Psalms 106:10

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II Samuel 4:2II Samuel 4:5II Kings 5:18

(10) When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
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II Samuel 1:2II Samuel 1:3II Samuel 1:4II Samuel 1:5II Samuel 1:6II Samuel 1:7II Samuel 1:8II Samuel 1:9II Samuel 1:10II Samuel 1:11II Samuel 1:12II Samuel 1:13

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II Samuel 18:20Isaiah 40:9Isaiah 52:7I Kings 2:28II Kings 7:9I Samuel 30:1

(11) How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
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I Kings 2:32Proverbs 25:26Habakkuk 1:4Habakkuk 1:12I John 3:12II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 3:39Genesis 9:5Genesis 9:6Exodus 21:12Numbers 35:31Numbers 35:32

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Ezekiel 32:25Matthew 10:41Genesis 9:5

(12) And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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II Samuel 1:15Psalms 55:23Matthew 7:2II Samuel 21:9Deuteronomy 21:22Deuteronomy 21:23II Samuel 3:32

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Judges 1:10II Samuel 3:32Numbers 13:22II Samuel 2:32II Samuel 3:19II Samuel 3:20

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