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But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines
came up to seek David; and David heard
of it,
and went down to the hold.
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The Philistines also
came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19
And David enquired of the L
ORD
, saying,
Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the L
ORD
said unto
David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
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And David came to
Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The L
ORD
hath broken forth upon mine enemies
before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
21
And
there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
22
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23
And
when David enquired of the L
ORD
, he said, Thou shalt not go up;
but
fetch a compass behind them,
and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
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And let it be, when thou hearest the sound
of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the
L
ORD
go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
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And David did so, as the L
ORD
had
commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 6
Again, David gathered together all
the
chosen
men
of Israel, thirty thousand.
2
And David arose,
and went with all the people that
were
with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the
ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the L
ORD
of hosts that dwelleth
between
the
cherubims.
3
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab that
was
in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
4
And
they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which
was
at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God:
and Ahio went before the ark.
5
And David and all the house of Israel played before the L
ORD
on
all manner of
instruments made of
fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and
on cornets, and on cymbals.
6
And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth
his hand
to the ark of God,
and took hold of it; for the oxen shook
it.
7
And the anger of the L
ORD
was kindled against Uzzah;
and God smote him there for
his
error; and there he died by the ark of God.
8
And David was
displeased, because the L
ORD
had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place
Perez-uzzah to this day.
9
And David was afraid of the L
ORD
that day, and said, How shall the ark
of the L
ORD
come to me?
10
So David would not remove the ark of the L
ORD
unto him into the city
of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
11
And the ark of the
L
ORD
continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the L
ORD
blessed
Obed-edom, and all his household.
12
And it was told king David, saying, The L
ORD
hath blessed the house of Obed- edom, and all
that
pertaineth
unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God
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