2 Samuel 6:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:55 : 55 When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:
  • 1 Chr 16:2 : 2 When David finished offering burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the LORD’s name.
  • 2 Chr 6:3 : 3 Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.
  • 2 Chr 30:18-19 : 18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying:“May the LORD, who is good, forgive 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
  • 2 Chr 30:27 : 27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The LORD responded favorably to them as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.
  • Acts 3:26 : 26 God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”
  • Heb 7:1-7 : 1 The Nature of Melchizedek’s Priesthood Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him. 2 To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace. 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time. 4 But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder. 5 And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham. 6 But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise. 7 Now without dispute the inferior is blessed by the superior,
  • Gen 14:19 : 19 He blessed Abram, saying,“Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.
  • Exod 39:43 : 43 Moses inspected all the work– and they had done it just as the LORD had commanded– they had done it exactly– and Moses blessed them.
  • Lev 9:22-23 : 22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering. 23 Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
  • 1 Kgs 8:14 : 14 Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 16:1-4
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    1David Leads in Worship They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

    2When David finished offering burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the LORD’s name.

    3He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

    4He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the LORD, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
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    17They brought the ark of the LORD and put it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 29:20
    76%

    20David told the entire assembly:“Praise the LORD your God!” So the entire assembly praised the LORD God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the LORD and the king.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    74%

    26David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 6:3-4
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    3Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

    4He said,“The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.

  • 1 Chr 21:28
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    28At that time, when David saw that the LORD responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
    73%

    19He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.

  • 2 Sam 24:25
    73%

    25Then David built an altar for the LORD there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the LORD accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:14-15
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    73%

    14Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

    15He said,“The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.

  • 1 Chr 29:9-10
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    72%

    9The people were delighted with their donations, for they contributed to the LORD with a willing attitude; King David was also very happy.

    10David Praises the Lord David praised the LORD before the entire assembly:“O LORD God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore!

  • Lev 9:22
    72%

    22Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

  • 2 Chr 29:29
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    29When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

  • 1 Chr 16:36
    71%

    36May the LORD God of Israel be praised, in the future and forevermore. Then all the people said,“We agree! Praise the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 6:12-13
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    12King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

    13Those who carried the ark of the LORD took six steps and then David sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

  • 1 Sam 13:9-10
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    9So Saul said,“Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering.

    10Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.

  • 1 Chr 16:43
    70%

    43Then all the people returned to their homes, and David went to pronounce a blessing on his family.

  • 2 Kgs 16:13
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    13He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.

  • 1 Kgs 8:55
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    55When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:

  • 2 Chr 7:4
    70%

    4The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-63
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    69%

    62Solomon Dedicates the Temple The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

    63Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the LORD’s temple.

  • 1 Sam 16:5
    69%

    5He replied,“Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    69%

    2David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

  • Deut 27:7
    69%

    7Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.

  • 2 Sam 8:11
    69%

    11King David dedicated these things to the LORD, along with the dedicated silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations that he had subdued,

  • 2 Sam 12:20
    69%

    20So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

  • Num 15:8
    69%

    8And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

  • 1 Kgs 8:66
    68%

    66On the fifteenth day after the festival started, he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king and then went to their homes, happy and content because of all the good the LORD had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

  • Ps 118:26
    68%

    26May the one who comes in the name of the LORD be blessed! We will pronounce blessings on you in the LORD’s temple.

  • 1 Chr 21:23
    68%

    23Ornan told David,“You can have it! My master, the king, may do what he wants. Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”

  • 1 Chr 15:26
    68%

    26When God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the LORD’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

  • 2 Sam 24:23
    68%

    23I, the servant of my lord the king, give it all to the king!” Araunah also told the king,“May the LORD your God show you favor!”

  • 1 Chr 21:18
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    18So the LORD’s angel told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • Lev 9:16
    68%

    16He then presented the burnt offering, and did it according to the standard regulation.

  • 1 Sam 11:15
    68%

    15So all the people went to Gilgal, where they established Saul as king in the LORD’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the LORD’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.

  • 2 Chr 33:16
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    16He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • Exod 24:5
    68%

    5He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.

  • Lev 7:11
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    11The Peace Offering“‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 25:32
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    32Then David said to Abigail,“Praised be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

  • 2 Chr 29:35
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    35There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the LORD’s temple was reinstituted.

  • 1 Chr 21:21
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    21When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.