And David said to the messenger, You shall say to Joab, Do not let this thing be evil in your eyes; for as this one so that one the sword devours. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it. And make him strong.
For dying we die and are as water which is spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who were to David, were not with Adonijah.
And it happened after many days the Word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, make yourself seen to Ahab, and I will give rain on the face of the earth.
And an angel of Jehovah spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, Rise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is not a God in Israel that you are going to ask of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
And the acts of David the king, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a distant land to me, from Babylon.