2 Samuel 8:13

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

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

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

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

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

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.”

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

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

Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”

Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

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.”

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

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.

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.

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.

He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”