The Second Book of Samuel, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} When [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in
Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
{4:2} [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, [had] two men who were captains of
bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other
Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin
(for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin: {4:3} and the Beerothites
fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).
{4:4} Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He
was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of
Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she
made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was
Mephibosheth. {4:5} The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and
Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of
Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon. {4:6} They came there into
the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and
they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother
escaped. {4:7} Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed
in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him,
and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. {4:8}
They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to
the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your
enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this
day of Saul, and of his seed."
{4:9} David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of
Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As Yahweh lives, who has
redeemed my soul out of all adversity, {4:10} when someone told me,
'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took
hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him
for his news. {4:11} How much more, when wicked men have slain a
righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require
his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" {4:12}
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their
hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron.
But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of
Abner in Hebron.
{5:1} Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and
spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {5:2} In
times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and
brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my
people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" {5:3} So all the
elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a
covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David
king over Israel. {5:4} David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years. {5:5} In Hebron he reigned over
Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. {5:6} The king and his
men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the
land, who spoke to David, saying, "Unless you take away the blind and
the lame, you shall not come in here;" thinking, "David can't come in
here." {5:7} Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same
is the city of David. {5:8} David said on that day, "Whoever strikes
the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame
and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore they say,
"The the blind and the lame can't come into the house." {5:9} David
lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built
around from Millo and inward. {5:10} David grew greater and greater;
for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him. {5:11} Hiram king of Tyre
sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons;
and they built David a house. {5:12} David perceived that Yahweh had
established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom
for his people Israel's sake. {5:13} David took him more concubines
and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there
were yet sons and daughters born to David. {5:14} These are the names
of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and
Nathan, and Solomon, {5:15} and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and
Japhia, {5:16} and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. {5:17} When
the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel,
all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and
went down to the stronghold. {5:18} Now the Philistines had come and
spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {5:19} David inquired of
Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you
deliver them into my hand?"
Yahweh said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the
Philistines into your hand."
{5:20} David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and
he said, "Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of
waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
{5:21} They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away. {5:22} The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim. {5:23} When David inquired of Yahweh, he
said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them
over against the mulberry trees. {5:24} It shall be, when you hear the
sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you
shall stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to
strike the army of the Philistines."
{5:25} David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the
Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
{6:1} David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand. {6:2} David arose, and went with all the people who
were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of
God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies
who sits [above] the cherubim. {6:3} They set the ark of God on a new
cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the
hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
{6:4} They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the
hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. {6:5} David
and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of
[instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed
instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with
cymbals. {6:6} When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah
put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the
cattle stumbled. {6:7} The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah;
and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark
of God. {6:8} David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on
Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. {6:9} David
was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of
Yahweh come to me?" {6:10} So David would not move the ark of Yahweh
to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into
the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. {6:11} The ark of Yahweh remained
in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed
Obed-Edom, and all his house. {6:12} It was told king David, saying,
"Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to
him, because of the ark of God."
David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy. {6:13} It was so, that, when those
who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and
a fattened calf. {6:14} David danced before Yahweh with all his might;
and David was girded with a linen ephod. {6:15} So David and all the
house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with
the sound of the trumpet. {6:16} It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came
into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at
the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and
she despised him in her heart. {6:17} They brought in the ark of
Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David
had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before Yahweh. {6:18} When David had made an end of offering
the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in
the name of Yahweh of Armies. {6:19} He dealt among all the people,
even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to
everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of
raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house. {6:20} Then
David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul
came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was
today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his
servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
{6:21} David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me
above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over
the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before
Yahweh. {6:22} I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in
my own sight. But of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall
honor me." {6:23} Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day
of her death.
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