Löydetty 974 Tulokset: David And Religion
So send a warning to David immediately, not to spend the night at the fords near the desert, but to cross over without fail. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be destroyed." (2 Samuel 17, 16)
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, since they could not risk being seen entering the city. A maidservant was to come with information for them, and they in turn were to go and report to King David. (2 Samuel 17, 17)
As soon as they left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan came up out of the cistern and went on to inform King David. They said to him: "Leave! Cross the water at once, for Ahithophel has given the following counsel in regard to you." (2 Samuel 17, 21)
So David and all his people moved on and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed. (2 Samuel 17, 22)
Now David had gone to Mahanaim when Absalom crossed the Jordan accompanied by all the Israelites. (2 Samuel 17, 24)
When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi, son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir, son of Ammiel from Lodebar, and Barzillai, the Gileadite from Rogelim, (2 Samuel 17, 27)
honey, butter and cheese from the flocks and herds, for David and those who were with him to eat; for they said, "The people have been hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert." (2 Samuel 17, 29)
After mustering the troops he had with him, David placed officers in command of groups of a thousand and groups of a hundred. (2 Samuel 18, 1)
David then put a third part of the soldiers under Joab's command, a third under command of Abishai, son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab, and a third under command of Ittai the Gittite. The king then said to the soldiers, "I intend to go out with you myself." (2 Samuel 18, 2)
David's army then took the field against Israel, and a battle was fought in the forest near Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 18, 6)
The forces of Israel were defeated by David's servants, and the casualties there that day were heavy--twenty thousand men. (2 Samuel 18, 7)
Absalom unexpectedly came up against David's servants. He was mounted on a mule, and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth, his hair caught fast in the tree. He hung between heaven and earth while the mule he had been riding ran off. (2 Samuel 18, 9)
