The New Testament has 27 books, written between about 50 and 100 AD, and falling naturally into two sections: the Gospels, which tell the story of Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John); and the Letters (or epistles) - written by various Christian leaders to provide guidance for the earliest church communities. The Letters they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants.

when Mephibosheth a son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence.s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, b because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; ( V) 11 yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from [ d] the Lord. ( W) 12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish. ( X) they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!” evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, g 29honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.” Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king. Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet. replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.” then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”