RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

eserved from them one hundred mirkavot.
5 And when the Arameans of Dameshek came to help
Hadadezer melech of Tzovah, Dawid killed twenty two
thousand Aramean men.
6 Then Dawid put governors in Aram of Dameshek: and
the Arameans became avadim to Dawid, and brought
gifts. And vuvh preserved Dawid wherever he went.
7 And Dawid took the shields of gold that were on the
avadim of Hadadezer, and brought them to
Yahrushalayim.
8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of
Hadadezer, melech Dawid took much bronze.
9 When Toi melech of Hamath heard that Dawid had
killed the entire army of Hadadezer,
10 Then Toi sent Yoram his son to melech Dawid, to
greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer, and killed him: for Hadadezer had wars with
Toi. And Yoram brought with him vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
11 That melech Dawid did dedicate to vuvh, with the
silver and gold that he had dedicated from all nations that
he subdued;
12 Of Aram, and of Moav, and of the children of Ammon,
and of the Plishtim, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of
Hadadezer, son of Rehov, melech of Tzovah. 823
13 And Dawid made a name for himself when he returned
from smiting the Arameans in the Valley of Salt, being
eighteen thousand men.
14 And he put governors in Edom; throughout all Edom
he put governors, and all those of Edom became Dawid's
avadim. And vuvh preserved Dawid wherever he went.
15 And Dawid reigned over kol Yisrael; and Dawid
executed mishpat and tzedakah to all his people.
16 And Yoav the son of Tzuruyah was over the army; and
Yahushaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
17 And Tzadok the son of Achituv, and Achimelech the
son of Aviathar, were the Kohanim; and Serayahu was the
Sopher;
18 And Benyahu the son of Yahoyada was over both the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and Dawid's sons were
princes.
9 And Dawid said, Is there yet any that is left of Beit
Shaul, that I may show him chesed for Yonathan's sake?
2 And there was of Beit Shaul an eved whose name was
Tziva. And when they had called him to Dawid, the
melech said to him, Are you Tziva? And he said, your
eved is he.
3 And the melech said, Is there not yet any left of Beit
Shaul, that I may show the chesed of Elohim to him? And
Tziva said to the melech, Yonathan has yet a son, who is
lame on his feet.
4 And the melech said to him, Where is he? And Tziva
said to the melech, See, he is in the bayit of Machir, the
son of Ammiel, in Lo-Devar.
5 Then melech Dawid sent, and fetched him out of the
bayit of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-Devar.
6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Yonathan, the son
of Shaul, had come to Dawid, he fell on his face, and
prostrated himself. And Dawid said, Mephibosheth. And
he answered, See your eved!
7 And Dawid said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show
you chesed for Yonathan your abba's sake, and will
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restore to you all the land of Shaul your abba; and you
shall eat lechem at my shulchan continually.
8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is your eved,
that you should look upon such a dead dog as I am?
9 Then the melech called to Tziva, Shaul's eved, and said
to him, I have given to your master's son all that pertains
to Shaul and to all his bayit.
10 You therefore, and your sons, and your avadim, shall
work the land for him, and you shall bring in the fruits,
that your master's son may have food to eat: but
Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat lechem always
at my shulchan. Now Tziva had fifteen sons and twenty
avadim.
11 Then said Tziva to the melech, According to all that
my master the melech has commanded his eved, so shall
your eved do. As for Mephibosheth, said the melech, he
shall eat at my shulchan, as one of the melech's sons.
12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was
Micha. And all that dwelt in the bayit of Tziva were
avadim to Mephibosheth.
13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Yahrushalayim: for he did
eat continually at the melech's shulchan; and was lame on
both his feet. 824
And it came to pass after this, that the melech of the
children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in
his stead.
2 Then said Dawid, I will show chesed to Hanun the son
of Nachash, as his abba showed chesed to me. And Dawid
sent to comfort him by the hand of his avadim concerning
his abba. And Dawid's avadim came into the land of the
children of Ammon.
3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to
Hanun their master, Do you think that Dawid does honor
your abba, in that he has sent comforters to you? Has not
Dawid rather sent his avadim to you, to search the city,
and to spy it out, to overthrow it?
4 Wherefore Hanun took Dawid's avadim, and shaved off
one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the
middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When they told it to Dawid, he sent to meet them,
because the men were greatly ashamed: and the melech
said, Stay at Yericho until your beards be grown, and then
return. 825
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6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had
become a stench before Dawid, the children of Ammon
sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-Rehov, and the
Arameans of Zova, twenty thousand footmen, and of
melech Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-Tov twelve
thousand men.
7 And when Dawid heard of it, he sent Yoav, and all the
army of the mighty men.
8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put
themselves in battle in array at the entering in of the gate:
and the Arameans of Zova, and of Rehov, and Ish-Tov,
and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
9 When Yoav saw that the battle was against him in front
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisrael, and
put them in array against the Arameans:
10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of
Avishai his brother, that he might put them in array
against the children of Ammon.
11 And he said, If the Arameans are too strong for me,