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“And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.”
— 2 Samuel 3:12
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“How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?”
— 2 Samuel 4:11
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“And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.”
— 2 Samuel 5:6
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“And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.”
— 2 Samuel 7:9
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“And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?”
— 2 Samuel 7:23
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“And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.”
— 2 Samuel 8:2
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“Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.”
— 2 Samuel 10:2
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“David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.”
— 2 Samuel 12:16
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“And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.”
— 2 Samuel 12:17
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“Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.”
— 2 Samuel 12:20
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“Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.”
— 2 Samuel 13:31
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“And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.”
— 2 Samuel 14:4
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“Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.”
— 2 Samuel 14:11
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“For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.”
— 2 Samuel 14:14
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“To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
— 2 Samuel 14:20
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“And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.”
— 2 Samuel 14:22
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“So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.”
— 2 Samuel 14:33
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“Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!”
— 2 Samuel 15:4
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“And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.”
— 2 Samuel 15:23
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“So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.”
— 2 Samuel 17:26
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“For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.”
— 2 Samuel 18:8
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“And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.”
— 2 Samuel 18:9
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“And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.”
— 2 Samuel 18:11
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“And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.”
— 2 Samuel 18:28
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“And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.”
— 2 Samuel 19:9
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“But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.”
— 2 Samuel 20:10
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“And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.”
— 2 Samuel 21:14
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“Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.”
— 2 Samuel 22:8
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“Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.”
— 2 Samuel 22:43
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“And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.”
— 2 Samuel 23:4
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“Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,”
— 2 Samuel 24:6
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“So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.”
— 2 Samuel 24:8
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“So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.”
— 2 Samuel 24:13
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“And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.”
— 2 Samuel 24:20
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“And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.”
— 2 Samuel 24:25
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“And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.”
— 1 Kings 1:23
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“Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.”
— 1 Kings 1:31
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“And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.”
— 1 Kings 1:40
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“And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.”
— 1 Kings 1:52
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“I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;”
— 1 Kings 2:2
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“The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:”
— 1 Kings 4:10
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“Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.”
— 1 Kings 4:19
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“And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.”
— 1 Kings 4:21
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“And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.”
— 1 Kings 4:34
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“And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.”
— 1 Kings 6:1
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“There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.”
— 1 Kings 8:9
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“And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
— 1 Kings 8:21
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“And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:”
— 1 Kings 8:23
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“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?”
— 1 Kings 8:27
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“Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.”
— 1 Kings 8:36