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2 Samuel 15:37And Hushai, David’s friend, cometh in to the city, and Absalom cometh in to Jerusalem.2 Samuel 16:15And Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him,2 Samuel 16:16and it cometh to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, hath come unto Absalom, that Hushai saith unto Absalom, ‘Let the king live! let the king live!’2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom saith unto Hushai, ‘This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?’2 Samuel 16:18And Hushai saith unto Absalom, ‘Nay, for he whom Jehovah hath chosen, and this people, even all the men of Israel, his I am, and with him I abide;2 Samuel 16:19and secondly, for whom do I labour? is it not before his son? as I served before thy father so am I before thee.’2 Samuel 17:1And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, ‘Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,2 Samuel 17:2and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who are with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,2 Samuel 17:3and I bring back all the people unto thee—as the turning back of the whole is the man whom thou art seeking—all the people are peace.2 Samuel 17:4And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.2 Samuel 17:5And Absalom saith, ‘Call, I pray thee, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what is in his mouth—even he.’2 Samuel 17:6And Hushai cometh in unto Absalom, and Absalom speaketh unto him, saying, ‘According to this word hath Ahithophel spoken; do we do his word? if not, thou—speak thou.’2 Samuel 17:7And Hushai saith unto Absalom, ‘Not good is the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.’2 Samuel 17:8And Hushai saith, ‘Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they are heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father is a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people;2 Samuel 17:9lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who are after Absalom;2 Samuel 17:10and he also, the son of valour, whose heart is as the heart of the lion, doth utterly melt, for all Israel doth know that thy father is a hero, and sons of valour are those with him.2 Samuel 17:11So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;2 Samuel 17:12and we have come in unto him in one of the places where he is found, and we are upon him as the dew falleth on the ground, and there hath not been left of him and of all the men who are with him even one.2 Samuel 17:13And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.’2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom saith—and all the men of Israel—‘Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;’ and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah’s bringing unto Absalom the evil.2 Samuel 20:16And a wise woman calleth out of the city, ‘Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto thee.’2 Samuel 20:17And he cometh near unto her, and the woman saith, ‘Art thou Joab?’ and he saith, ‘I am.’ And she saith to him, ‘Hear the words of thy handmaid;’ and he saith, ‘I am hearing.’2 Samuel 20:18and she speaketh, saying, ‘They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.2 Samuel 20:19I am of the peaceable—faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?2 Samuel 20:20And Joab answereth and saith, ‘Far be it—far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy.2 Samuel 20:21The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim—Sheba son of Bichri his name—hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.’ And the woman saith unto Joab, ‘Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.’2 Samuel 20:22And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.1 Kings 1:1And king David is old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,1 Kings 1:2and his servants say to him, ‘Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and she hath stood before the king, and is to him a companion, and hath lain in thy bosom, and my lord the king hath heat.’1 Kings 1:3And they seek a fair young woman in all the border of Israel, and find Abishag the Shunammite, and bring her in to the king,1 Kings 1:4and the young woman is very very fair, and she is to the king a companion, and serveth him, and the king hath not known her.1 Kings 1:5And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, ‘I do reign;’ and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,1 Kings 5:1And Hiram king of Tyre sendeth his servants unto Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him for king instead of his father, for Hiram was a lover of David all the days;1 Kings 5:2and Solomon sendeth unto Hiram, saying,1 Kings 5:3‘Thou hast known David my father, that he hath not been able to build a house to the name of Jehovah his God, because of the wars that have been round about him, till Jehovah’s putting them under the soles of his feet.1 Kings 5:4‘And now, Jehovah my God hath given rest to me round about, there is no adversary nor evil occurrence,1 Kings 5:5and lo, I am saying to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son whom I appoint in thy stead on thy throne, he doth build the house for My name.1 Kings 5:6‘And now, command, and they cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon, and my servants are with thy servants, and the hire of thy servants I give to thee according to all that thou sayest, for thou hast known that there is not among us a man acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.’1 Kings 5:7And it cometh to pass at Hiram’s hearing the words of Solomon, that he rejoiceth exceedingly, and saith, ‘Blessed is Jehovah to-day, who hath given to David a wise son over this numerous people.’1 Kings 5:8And Hiram sendeth unto Solomon, saying, I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me, I do all thy desire concerning cedar-wood, and fir-wood,1 Kings 5:9my servants bring down from Lebanon to the sea, and I make them floats in the sea unto the place that thou sendest unto me, and I have spread them out there; and thou dost take them up, and thou dost execute my desire, to give the food of my house.’1 Kings 5:10And Hiram is giving to Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, all his desire,1 Kings 5:11and Solomon hath given to Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat, food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil; thus doth Solomon give to Hiram year by year.1 Kings 5:12And Jehovah hath given wisdom to Solomon as He spake to him, and there is peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they make a covenant both of them.1 Kings 9:10And it cometh to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon hath built the two houses, the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king.1 Kings 9:11Hiram king of Tyre hath assisted Solomon with cedar-trees, and with fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then doth king Solomon give to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.1 Kings 9:12And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,1 Kings 9:13and he saith, ‘What are these cities that thou hast given to me, my brother?’ and one calleth them the land of Cabul unto this day.1 Kings 9:14And Hiram sendeth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.1 Kings 9:26And a navy hath king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Suph, in the land of Edom.1 Kings 9:27And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon,1 Kings 10:11And also, the navy of Hiram that bore gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir almug-trees very many, and precious stone;1 Kings 20:31And his servants say unto him, ‘Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel—that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.’1 Kings 20:32And they gird sackcloth on their loins, and ropes are on their heads, and they come in unto the king of Israel, and say, ‘Thy servant Ben-Hadad hath said, Let me live, I pray thee;’ and he saith, ‘Is he yet alive? he is my brother.’1 Kings 20:33And the men observe diligently, and hasten, and catch it from him, and say, ‘Thy brother Ben-Hadad;’ and he saith, ‘Go ye in, bring him;’ and Ben-Hadad cometh out unto him, and he causeth him to come up on the chariot.1 Kings 20:34And he saith unto him, ‘The cities that my father took from thy father, I give back, and streets thou dost make for thee in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria;’—‘and I, with a covenant, send thee away;’ and he maketh with him a covenant, and sendeth him away.2 Kings 12:18and Jehoash king of Judah taketh all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the house of the king, and sendeth to Hazael king of Aram, and he goeth up from off Jerusalem.2 Kings 16:7And Ahaz sendeth messengers unto Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur, saying, ‘Thy servant and thy son am I; come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.’2 Kings 16:8And Ahaz taketh the silver and the gold that is found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the king, and sendeth to the king of Asshur—a bribe.2 Kings 16:9And hearken unto him doth the king of Asshur, and the king of Asshur goeth up unto Damascus, and seizeth it, and removeth the people of it to Kir, and Rezin he hath put to death.