Quotes About David

And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Havenít you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didnít you go home?”

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.

And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëI anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.

So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.

Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on Davidís head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, Davidís counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalomís following kept increasing.

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ëCurse David,í who can ask, ëWhy did you do this?í”

So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.

Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

So Davidís army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.

There the people of Israel were defeated by Davidís servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.