The Second Book of Shemu'el, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} When [Ish-Boshet], Sha'ul's son, heard that Aviner was dead
in Hevron, his hands became feeble, and all the Yisra'elites were
troubled. {4:2} [Ish-Boshet], Sha'ul's son, [had] two men who were
captains of bands: the name of the one was Ba`anah, and the name of
the other Rechav, the sons of Rimmon the Be'erotite, of the children
of Binyamin (for Be'erot also is reckoned to Binyamin: {4:3} and the
Be'erotites fled to Gittayim, and have been sojourners there until
this day). {4:4} Now Yonatan, Sha'ul's son, had a son who was lame of
his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Sha'ul and
Yonatan out of Yizre`el; 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 Mefivoshet. {4:5} The sons of Rimmon the Be'erotite,
Rechav and Ba`anah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the
house of Ish-Boshet, 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 Rechav and Ba`anah 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 `Aravah
all night. {4:8} They brought the head of Ish-Boshet to David to
Hevron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-Boshet, the son
of Sha'ul, your enemy, who sought your life; and the LORD has avenged
my lord the king this day of Sha'ul, and of his seed. {4:9} David
answered Rechav and Ba`anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the
Be'erotite, and said to them, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my
soul out of all adversity, {4:10} when one told me, saying, Behold,
Sha'ul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of
him, and killed him in Tziklag, 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 [1>]eretz[<1]? {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 Hevron. But they
took the head of Ish-Boshet, and buried it in the grave of Aviner in
Hevron.
{5:1} Then came all the tribes of Yisra'el to David to Hevron, and
spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {5:2} In times
past, when Sha'ul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought
in Yisra'el: and the LORD said to you, You shall be shepherd of my
people Yisra'el, and you shall be prince over Yisra'el. {5:3} So all
the Zakenim of Yisra'el came to the king to Hevron; and king David
made a covenant with them in Hevron before the LORD: and they anointed
David king over Yisra'el. {5:4} David was thirty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned forty years. {5:5} In Hevron he reigned
over Yehudah seven years and six months; and in Yerushalayim he
reigned thirty-three years over all Yisra'el and Yehudah. {5:6} The
king and his men went to Yerushalayim against the Yevusi, the
inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Except 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 Tziyon; the same is the city of David. {5:8} David said on that
day, Whoever strikes the Yevusi, let him get up to the watercourse,
and [strike] the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul.
Therefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he can't come
into the house. {5:9} David lived in the stronghold, and called it the
city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward. {5:10}
David grew greater and greater; for the LORD, the God
[1>]Tzva'ot[<1],, was with him. {5:11} Hiram king of Tzor sent
messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and
they built David a house. {5:12} David perceived that the LORD had
established him king over Yisra'el, and that he had exalted his
kingdom for his people Yisra'el's sake. {5:13} David took him more
concubines and wives out of Yerushalayim, after he was come from
Hevron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. {5:14}
These are the names of those who were born to him in Yerushalayim:
Shammua, and Shovav, and Natan, and Shlomo, {5:15} and Yivchar, and
Elishua, and Nefeg, and Yafia, {5:16} and Elishama, and Elyada, and
Elifelet. {5:17} When the Pelishtim heard that they had anointed David
king over Yisra'el, all the Pelishtim went up to seek David; and David
heard of it, and went down to the stronghold. {5:18} Now the Pelishtim
had come and spread themselves in the valley of Refa'im. {5:19} David
inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up against the Pelishtim?
will you deliver them into my hand? the LORD said to David, Go up; for
I will certainly deliver the Pelishtim into your hand. {5:20} David
came to Ba`al-Peratzim, and David struck them there; and he said, the
LORD has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.
Therefore he called the name of that place Ba`al-Peratzim. {5:21} They
left their images there; and David and his men took them away. {5:22}
The Pelishtim came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley
of Refa'im. {5:23} When David inquired of the LORD, he said, You shall
not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come on 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 bestir
yourself; for then is the LORD gone out before you to strike the host
of the Pelishtim. {5:25} David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and
struck the Pelishtim from Geva until you come to Gezer.
{6:1} David again gathered together all the chosen men of Yisra'el,
thirty thousand. {6:2} David arose, and went with all the people who
were with him, from Ba`ale-Yeudah, to bring up from there the ark of
God, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Hosts
who sits [above] the Keruvim. {6:3} They set the ark of God on a new
cart, and brought it out of the house of Avinadav that was in the
hill: and Uzzah and Achyo, the sons of Avinadav, drove the new cart.
{6:4} They brought it out of the house of Avinadav, which was in the
hill, with the ark of God: and Achyo went before the ark. {6:5} David
and all the house of Yisra'el played before the LORD with all manner
of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with lyres, and with
psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
{6:6} When they came to the threshing floor of Nakhon, Uzzah put forth
[his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen
stumbled. {6:7} The anger of the LORD 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 the LORD had broken forth on
Uzzah; and he called that place Peretz-Uzzah, to this day. {6:9} David
was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, How shall the ark of the
LORD come to me? {6:10} So David would not remove the ark of the LORD
to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the
house of `Oved-'Edom the Gittite. {6:11} The ark of the LORD remained
in the house of `Oved-'Edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD
blessed `Oved-'Edom, and all his house. {6:12} It was told king David,
saying, the LORD has blessed the house of `Oved-'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 `Oved-'Edom into the city of David
with joy. {6:13} It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of the
LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
{6:14} David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was
girded with a linen efod. {6:15} So David and all the house of
Yisra'el brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the
sound of the [1>]shofar[<1]. {6:16} It was so, as the ark of the LORD
came into the city of David, that Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul looked
out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the
LORD; and she despised him in her heart. {6:17} They brought in the
ark of the LORD, 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 the LORD. {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 the LORD of Hosts. {6:19} He dealt among all the
people, even among the whole multitude of Yisra'el, 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. Mikhal the daughter
of Sha'ul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king
of Yisra'el 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 Mikhal, [It was] before the
LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to
appoint me prince over the people of the LORD, over Yisra'el:
therefore will I play before the LORD. {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, of them shall I be had in honor. {6:23} Mikhal
the daughter of Sha'ul had no child to the day of her death.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:11} earth
[1] {5:10} of hosts or of armies
[1] {6:15} trumpet
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