2 Samuel 21:17

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.

As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.