2 Samuel 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

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  • 1 Kgs 14:30 : 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  • 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
  • Rev 6:2 : 2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
  • 1 Kgs 15:16 : 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • 1 Kgs 15:32 : 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Esth 6:13 : 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."
  • Job 8:7 : 7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
  • Ps 45:3-5 : 3 Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty. 4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.

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  • 2 Sam 3:6
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    6It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 19:7-8
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    75%

    7Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

    8There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 18:29-30
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    29Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

    30Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

  • 1 Sam 14:52
    74%

    52There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.

  • 1 Chr 11:9-10
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    9David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.

    10Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
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    15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    73%

    10to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba."

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

  • 1 Sam 17:14
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    14David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

  • 1 Sam 17:31-33
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    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

    32David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

    33Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."

  • 2 Sam 5:10
    72%

    10David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Sam 3:17-18
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    17Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

    18Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, 'By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'"

  • 1 Sam 23:16
    71%

    16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

  • 1 Sam 18:12-13
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    12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

    13Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

  • 2 Sam 2:7
    71%

    7Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them."

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 18:9
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    9Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

  • 2 Sam 3:39
    70%

    39I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
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    1Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

  • 1 Sam 26:25
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    25Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.

  • 2 Sam 3:2
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    2To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

  • 1 Chr 19:19
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    19When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

  • 1 Sam 14:47
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    47Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put [them] to the worse.

  • 1 Sam 18:17
    70%

    17Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    70%

    57As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 2:10-11
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    69%

    10Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

    11The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

  • 2 Sam 5:3
    69%

    3So 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.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 2 Sam 1:17
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    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 19:1
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    1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

  • 1 Sam 31:3
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    3The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

  • 2 Sam 21:1
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    1There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."

  • 1 Chr 11:7
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    7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
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    3"You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

  • 2 Sam 5:12
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    12David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

  • 2 Chr 1:1
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    1Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.