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“Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
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David's Prayer of Gratitude
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
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And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
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And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God!
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Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.
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And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
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And now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
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Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
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And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”
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When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”
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And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
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But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.
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The Rebellion of Sheba
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”
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For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.
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“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
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and said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
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The Lord's Judgment of David's Sin
But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
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All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”