![4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0993-768x768.jpg)
And Bath–sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king.
And Bath–sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou? 1 Kings 1:1 – 1:53 1 Now king David was old [and]
![4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0993-768x768.jpg)
And Bath–sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou? 1 Kings 1:1 – 1:53 1 Now king David was old [and]
![4 Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0716-768x439.jpg)
And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and
![2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word [was] in my tongue. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 1 Now these [be] the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man [who was] raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0780-768x768.jpg)
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 2 Samuel
![2 And he said, The Lord [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day [that] the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0767-768x768.jpg)
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour;
![2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0742-768x768.jpg)
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
![4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EOG0717-768x439.jpg)
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to

So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19:1
![5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EOG0725-768x768.jpg)
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. 2 Samuel 18:1 – 18:33 1 And David numbered
![11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EOG0726-768x768.jpg)
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put