Bible Cross References
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2 Samuel 2:9
There Abner made Ishbosheth king of the territories of Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and indeed over all Israel.
2 Samuel 2:10
He was forty years old when he was made king of Israel, and he ruled for two years. But the tribe of Judah was loyal to David,
2 Samuel 3:1
The fighting between the forces supporting Saul's family and those supporting David went on for a long time. As David became stronger and stronger, his opponents became weaker and weaker.
2 Samuel 5:1-7
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Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and said to him, "We are your own flesh and blood.
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In the past, even when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle, and the LORD promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler."
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So all the leaders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them, they anointed him, and he became king of Israel.
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David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years.
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He ruled in Hebron over Judah for seven and a half years, and in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.
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The time came when King David and his men set out to attack Jerusalem. The Jebusites, who lived there, thought that David would not be able to conquer the city, and so they said to him, "You will never get in here; even the blind and the crippled could keep you out."
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(But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as "David's City.")
Acts 5:31
God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.
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Psalm 22:27
All nations will remember the LORD. From every part of the world they will turn to him; all races will worship him.
Psalm 22:28
The LORD is king, and he rules the nations.
Psalm 108:9
But I will use Moab as my washbowl, and I will throw my sandals on Edom, as a sign that I own it. I will shout in triumph over the Philistines."
2 Samuel 5:1-25
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Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and said to him, "We are your own flesh and blood.
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In the past, even when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle, and the LORD promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler."
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So all the leaders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them, they anointed him, and he became king of Israel.
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David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years.
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He ruled in Hebron over Judah for seven and a half years, and in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.
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The time came when King David and his men set out to attack Jerusalem. The Jebusites, who lived there, thought that David would not be able to conquer the city, and so they said to him, "You will never get in here; even the blind and the crippled could keep you out."
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(But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as "David's City.")
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That day David said to his men, "Does anybody here hate the Jebusites as much as I do? Enough to kill them? Then go up through the water tunnel and attack those poor blind cripples." (That is why it is said, "The blind and the crippled cannot enter the LORD's house.")
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After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it "David's City." He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill.
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He grew stronger all the time, because the LORD God Almighty was with him.
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King Hiram of Tyre sent a trade mission to David; he provided him with cedar logs and with carpenters and stone masons to build a palace.
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And so David realized that the LORD had established him as king of Israel and was making his kingdom prosperous for the sake of his people.
13
After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David took more concubines and wives, and had more sons and daughters.
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The following children were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
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Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
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Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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The Philistines were told that David had been made king of Israel, so their army set out to capture him. When David heard of it, he went down to a fortified place.
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The Philistines arrived at Rephaim Valley and occupied it.
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David asked the LORD, "Shall I attack the Philistines? Will you give me the victory?" "Yes, attack!" the LORD answered. "I will give you the victory!"
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So David went to Baal Perazim and there he defeated the Philistines. He said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies like a flood." And so that place is called Baal Perazim.
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When the Philistines fled, they left their idols behind, and David and his men carried them away.
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Then the Philistines went back to Rephaim Valley and occupied it again.
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Once more David consulted the LORD, who answered, "Don't attack them from here, but go around and get ready to attack them from the other side, near the balsam trees.
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When you hear the sound of marching in the treetops, then attack because I will be marching ahead of you to defeat the Philistine army."
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David did what the LORD had commanded, and was able to drive the Philistines back from Geba all the way to Gezer.
2 Samuel 8:1-18
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Some time later King David attacked the Philistines again, defeated them, and ended their control over the land.
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Then he defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
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Then he defeated the king of the Syrian state of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob, as Hadadezer was on his way to restore his control over the territory by the upper Euphrates River.
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David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled all the rest.
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When the Syrians of Damascus sent an army to help King Hadadezer, David attacked it and killed twenty-two thousand men.
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Then he set up military camps in their territory, and they became his subjects and paid taxes to him. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
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David captured the gold shields carried by Hadadezer's officials and took them to Jerusalem.
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He also took a great quantity of bronze from Betah and Berothai, cities ruled by Hadadezer.
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King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated all of Hadadezer's army.
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So he sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for his victory over Hadadezer, against whom Toi had fought many times. Joram took David presents made of gold, silver, and bronze.
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King David dedicated them for use in worship, along with the silver and gold he took from the nations he had conquered---
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Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek---as well as part of the loot he had taken from Hadadezer.
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David became even more famous when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Edomites in Salt Valley.
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He set up military camps throughout Edom, and the people there became his subjects. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
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David ruled over all of Israel and made sure that his people were always treated fairly and justly.
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Joab, whose mother was Zeruiah, was the commander of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records;
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Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the court secretary;
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Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of David's bodyguards; and David's sons were priests.
2 Samuel 10:1-19
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Some time later King Nahash of Ammon died, and his son Hanun became king.
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King David said, "I must show loyal friendship to Hanun, as his father Nahash did to me." So David sent messengers to express his sympathy. When they arrived in Ammon,
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the Ammonite leaders said to the king, "Do you think that it is in your father's honor that David has sent these men to express sympathy to you? Of course not! He has sent them here as spies to explore the city, so that he can conquer us!"
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Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off one side of their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.
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They were too ashamed to return home. When David heard about what had happened, he sent word for them to stay in Jericho and not return until their beards had grown again.
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The Ammonites realized that they had made David their enemy, so they hired twenty thousand Syrian soldiers from Bethrehob and Zobah, twelve thousand men from Tob, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men.
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David heard of it and sent Joab against them with the whole army.
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The Ammonites marched out and took up their position at the entrance to Rabbah, their capital city, while the others, both the Syrians and the men from Tob and Maacah, took up their position in the open countryside.
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Joab saw that the enemy troops would attack him in front and from the rear, so he chose the best of Israel's soldiers and put them in position facing the Syrians.
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He placed the rest of his troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who put them in position facing the Ammonites.
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Joab said to him, "If you see that the Syrians are defeating me, come and help me, and if the Ammonites are defeating you, I will go and help you.
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Be strong and courageous! Let's fight hard for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the LORD's will be done!"
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Joab and his men advanced to attack, and the Syrians fled.
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When the Ammonites saw the Syrians running away, they fled from Abishai and retreated into the city. Then Joab turned back from fighting the Ammonites and went back to Jerusalem.
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The Syrians realized that they had been defeated by the Israelites, and so they called all their troops together.
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King Hadadezer sent for the Syrians who were on the east side of the Euphrates River, and they came to Helam under the command of Shobach, commander of the army of King Hadadezer of Zobah.
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When David heard of it, he gathered the Israelite troops, crossed the Jordan River, and marched to Helam, where the Syrians took up their position facing him. The fighting began,
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and the Israelites drove the Syrian army back. David and his men killed seven hundred Syrian chariot drivers and forty thousand cavalry, and they wounded Shobach, the enemy commander, who died on the battlefield.
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When the kings who were subject to Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelites, they made peace with them and became their subjects. And the Syrians were afraid to help the Ammonites any more.
2 Samuel 22:44-46
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You saved me from my rebellious people and maintained my rule over the nations; people I did not know have now become my subjects.
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Foreigners bow before me; when they hear me, they obey.
46
They lose their courage and come trembling from their fortresses.
Isaiah 49:6
The LORD said to me, "I have a greater task for you, my servant. Not only will you restore to greatness the people of Israel who have survived, but I will also make you a light to the nations--- so that all the world may be saved."
Isaiah 49:22
The Sovereign LORD says to his people: "I will signal to the nations, and they will bring your children home.
Isaiah 49:23
Kings will be like fathers to you; queens will be like mothers. They will bow low before you and honor you; they will humbly show their respect for you. Then you will know that I am the LORD; no one who waits for my help will be disappointed."
Isaiah 52:15
But now many nations will marvel at him, and kings will be speechless with amazement. They will see and understand something they had never known."
Romans 15:12
And again, Isaiah says, "A descendant of Jesse will appear; he will come to rule the Gentiles, and they will put their hope in him."
Romans 15:18
I will be bold and speak only about what Christ has done through me to lead the Gentiles to obey God. He has done this by means of words and deeds,
Ephesians 1:22
God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.
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Isaiah 52:15
But now many nations will marvel at him, and kings will be speechless with amazement. They will see and understand something they had never known."
Isaiah 55:5
Now you will summon foreign nations; at one time they did not know you, but now they will come running to join you! I, the LORD your God, the holy God of Israel, will make all this happen; I will give you honor and glory."
Hosea 1:10
The people of Israel will become like the sand of the sea, more than can be counted or measured. Now God says to them, "You are not my people," but the day is coming when he will say to them, "You are the children of the living God!"
Romans 16:26
Now, however, that truth has been brought out into the open through the writings of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God it is made known to all nations, so that all may believe and obey.
1 Peter 2:10
At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The power to rule over the world belongs now to our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!"