Chapter 1

Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction o...

Chapter 2

Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the...

Chapter 3

Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David bec...

Chapter 4

And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hand...

Chapter 5

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are yo...

Chapter 6

And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty th...

Chapter 7

Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from...

Chapter 8

And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and ov...

Chapter 9

And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be...

Chapter 10

Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his...

Chapter 11

Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his...

Chapter 12

And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were t...

Chapter 13

Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister,...

Chapter 14

Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning...

Chapter 15

Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners...

Chapter 16

And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servan...

Chapter 17

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this ve...

Chapter 18

And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captai...

Chapter 19

And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.

Chapter 20

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son o...

Chapter 21

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; a...

Chapter 22

And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made...

Chapter 23

Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man wh...

Chapter 24

Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against...