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Lexicon :: Strong's H7971 - šālaḥ

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שָׁלַח
Transliteration
šālaḥ
Pronunciation
shaw-lakh'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2394

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁלַח shâlach, shaw-lakh'; a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications):—× any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 847x

The KJV translates Strong's H7971 in the following manner: send (566x), go (73x), (send, put, ...) forth (54x), send away (48x), lay (14x), send out (12x), put (10x), put away (7x), cast out (7x), stretch out (5x), cast (5x), set (5x), put out (4x), depart (4x), soweth (3x), loose (3x), miscellaneous (22x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 847x
The KJV translates Strong's H7971 in the following manner: send (566x), go (73x), (send, put, ...) forth (54x), send away (48x), lay (14x), send out (12x), put (10x), put away (7x), cast out (7x), stretch out (5x), cast (5x), set (5x), put out (4x), depart (4x), soweth (3x), loose (3x), miscellaneous (22x).

  1. to send, send away, let go, stretch out

    1. (Qal)

      1. to send

      2. to stretch out, extend, direct

      3. to send away

      4. to let loose

    2. (Niphal) to be sent

    3. (Piel)

      1. to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out

      2. to let go, set free

      3. to shoot forth (of branches)

      4. to let down

      5. to shoot

    4. (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled

    5. (Hiphil) to send

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁלַח shâlach, shaw-lakh'; a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications):—× any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
STRONGS H7971: Abbreviations
I. שָׁלַח 844 verb send (Late Hebrew id.; Ecclus 48:18 +; Aramaic שְׁלַךְ, OFlw, SoBuhl BaEs 41 compare Arabic سَرَحَ (r = l), send forth, drive cattle to pasture, send messenger, etc., but then different √ for I. שֶׁלַךְ, Arabic سِلاَحً, سِلَعً weapon; Assyrian probably šalû (send, hurl?), whence tešlitu, command); —
Qal 562 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ Genesis 42:4 2nd person masculine singular suffix שְׁלַחְתָּ֑נִי Exodus 5:22, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁלַח Genesis 3:22 +, 2nd person feminine plural תִּשְׁלַ֫חְנָה Ezekiel 23:40 (Judges 5:26 read תִּשְׁלָחֶנָּה ? Ges § 47 k); Imperative masculine singular שְׁלַךְ 1 Samuel 20:31 +, masculine plural שְׁלָ֑חוּ 2 Kings 2:17; Infinitive absolute שָׁל(וֺ)ךְַ Numbers 22:37 +; construct שְׁלֹתַ Numbers 22:15 +, שְׁלַךְ Isaiah 58:9, suffix שָׁלְחֶ֑ךָ Genesis 38:17 etc.; Participle act. שֹׁלֵךְַ Exodus 9:14 +, etc.; שָׁלוּחַ 1 Kings 14:6 +, etc., —
1. send: human subject, especially
a. accusative of person Genesis 42:4; Genesis 43:8 (both J; with אֵת with, person) Numbers 22:15 (E) + often, with ל of thing for which Jeremiah 14:3; followed by אֶל person Genesis 37:13(J), 2 Samuel 11:6; Nehemiah 6:5 +; rarely with ל person Genesis 32:19 (J; pass.), אֶל, of location 2 Chronicles 16:4, ב of location 1 Samuel 11:3, ל of location 1 Kings 5:28, accusative of location 2 Kings 22:3, ה- locative + מֵעַל person 2 Samuel 13:17, מִן local Genesis 37:14 (J), Numbers 13:3 (P), etc.; followed by infinitive purpose 1 Samuel 25:14)+ מִן local), 2 Kings 1:16; Jeremiah 40:14 +, אֶל person with infinitive purpose 2 Samuel 10:3; Jeremiah 42:9 +, with ו subordinate 2 Kings 5:6, with finite verb actionis Exodus 2:5 (E), sent her maid and took, +, etc. (many combinations); accusative of person alone Exodus 24:5 (E), Joshua 7:22(E), 2 Samuel 10:7 —
b. less often accusative of thing (sometimes with בְּיַד of agent), with אֶל person 1 Samuel 16:20; 2 Kings 5:5; 2 Kings 20:12 +, 1 Kings 5:23 [1 Kings 5:9] (= designate by sending unto), ל person Judges 3:15; 1 Kings 5:22 [1 Kings 5:8] +, אֶל location Esther 1:22, שָׁ֫מָּה 2 Kings 6:14; + infinitive purpose 1 Chronicles 19:4; Esther 4:4; + finite verb action. Psalm 105:28; accusative of kid, alone, Genesis 38:23 also (accusative omitted) Genesis 38:17, etc.
c. very often without object: + finite verb action, send and do so and so, Genesis 27:45(E), 2 Kings 11:14; Job 1:5 +; with אֶל person Hosea 5:13; 2 Samuel 11:6 +, especially + לֵאמֹר Genesis 38:25(J), 1 Kings 20:5 (often in Samuel Kings), Jeremiah 29:28 +; with infinitive purpose Genesis 32:6 (J), Numbers 21:32 (J), 1 Samuel 22:11 +, etc. (and so 1 Samuel 31:9 reading וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ, for Pi., Th We Dr Now, not HPS Bu); absolute 2 Kings 2:16, 17; 2 Samuel 14:29; = send to inquire 1 Kings 20:17, etc.
2. send: subject י׳ (God),
a. accusative of person Genesis 45:5; (E; לִפְנֵי person), 1 Samuel 15:18 (בְּדָ֑רֶךְ), + אֶל person 2 Samuel 12:1; accusative of angel, לִפְנֵי person Genesis 24:7; Exodus 33:2 (both J), אֵת with Genesis 24:40(J), etc.; with accusative of person = commission Exodus 3:12 (E), Judges 6:14; Isaiah 6:8; Jeremiah 14:14, 15 — Jeremiah; Zechariah 2:13 +; also (with אֶל person) Exodus 3:13 (E), Jeremiah 25:4; Ezekiel 3:6 +, etc.; especially of sending prophet, (שָׁלַךְ), הַשְׁכֵּם וְשָׁלוֺחַ Jeremiah 7:25 + (see [שָׁרַם]); accusative of person + infinitive purpose 1 Samuel 15:1; Jeremiah 19:14 +; + עַד location 2 Kings 2:2, accusative of location 2 Kings 2:4, ָ  ה locative 2 Kings 2:6, etc.
b. with accusative of thing, plagues Exodus 9:14 (with אֶל־לֵב, ב person), figurative arrows 2 Samuel 22:15 = Psalm 18:15)+ verb finite action.), Psalm 144:6, compare Jeremiah 25:16 and elsewhere; his word Isaiah 9:7 (ב of a people), Isaiah 55:11 (אשׁר to which), Zechariah 7:12 (ב agent.), Psalm 107:20 (+ finite verb action.), Psalm 147:15 (+ accusative אֶרֶץ); accusative help Psalm 20:3 (מִן local), light and truth Psalm 43:3 (+ finite verb action.), compare Psalm 57:4
3. stretch out, especially accusative hand:
a. human subject, with ב person against, Genesis 37:22(E), 1 Samuel 24:11; Esther 2:21+; with ב of thing (property of others) Exodus 22:7; Exodus 22:10 (E), Esther 9:10 +, בַּחַלָּמִישׁ Job 28:9; with אֶל person against Genesis 22:12 (E), 2 Samuel 18:12, עַל person 1 Kings 13:4, etc.; אֶל of thing (for good) 2 Samuel 6:6 (יָד omitted); from outside; inward, Songs 5:4 (מִן local); absolute Job 30:24 (read טֹבֵעַ for בְּעִי Di Bi Bu). + infinitive purpose 1 Samuel 22:17, 17; 2 Samuel 1:14; 1 Chronicles 13:9; + verb finite active Genesis 3:22 (J) Deuteronomy 25:11; Judges 15:15; +; אֶצְבַּע שׁ׳ Isaiah 58:9, in token of scorn; with accusative of rod 1 Samuel 14:27; שִׁלְחוּ מַגָּל Joel 4:13 stretch out (the) sickle.
b. י׳ subject, accusative hand, + אֶל person against Exodus 24: (E), compare (עַל) Psalm 138:7; + finite verb active Exodus 3:20 (JE), Exodus 9:15(J), Job 1:11; Job 2:5; in favour, Jeremiah 1:9, absolute Psalm 144:7 (מִן local), also (passive) Ezekiel 2:9 and accusative תַּבְנִית יָד), Ezekiel 8:3.
† c. accusative hand, subject angel, + accusative of location, infinitive purpose 2 Samuel 24:16, cherub, אֶל of thing, מִן local Ezekiel 10:7; adversary, אֶל person Job 1:12; subject angel, accusative rod Judges 6:21.
d. stretched out, slender, of tree Genesis 49:21 (poem in J), see I. אֵלָה above.
e. perhaps extend, direct, accusative of thing Ezekiel 8:17 (see זְמוֺרָה above, also conjectures in Toy Krae).
4. rarely send away (see Pi.): human subject, accusative of person Judges 11:38)+ accusative temporal), Genesis 28:5 (P).
5. let loose (see Pi.), perhaps only Psalm 50:19 (figurative) thy mouth hast thou let loose in evil.
† Niph. Infinitive absolute. וְנִשְׁלוֺחַ סְפָרִים = letters were sent (Ges§ 113 z gg) Esther 3:13)+ אֶל person, בְּיַד agent., infinitive purpose).
Pi. 266 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שִׁלַּח Exodus 8:28 +, suffix שִׁלַּחֲךָ 1 Samuel 20:22, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְשַׁלַּח Jeremiah 3:1 +, יְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ Isaiah 45:13; Proverbs 6:14; 1st person singular suffix אֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ Genesis 32:27, אֲשַׁלְּחֶךָּ 2 Samuel 11:12; 1 Kings 20:34, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שַׁלַּךְ Exodus 4:23, +, etc.; Infinitive absolute Deuteronomy 22:7; 1 Kings 11:22; construct שַׁלַּךְ Genesis 8:10 +, שַׁלֵּ֑ךְַ Exodus 7:27; +, etc.; Participle מְשַׁלֵחַ Genesis 43:4 +, etc.; —
1. send off, away, human subject:
a. accusative of person + ל location Joshua 24:28 (E), Judges 7:8; 1 Samuel 10:23 +; + ל person Jeremiah 48:12; + הּ — Judges 12:9 and (with infinitive purpose) Genesis 28:6 (P); accusative of goat, לַעֲזָאזֵל Leviticus 16:10 (ה - locative), Leviticus 16:26; send out, different ways, accusative of person, ב location Judges 19:29; Judges 20:6; send into exile, י׳ subject, with מִן local Jeremiah 24:5, ה — Jeremiah 29:20.
b. send away, dismiss, accusative of person Genesis 21:14 (E), Genesis 25:6 (J; מֵעַל person), 2 Samuel 13:16 +; specifically, with accusative of wife (= divorce), Deuteronomy 22:19, 29; Deuteronomy 24:1, 3; Jeremiah 3:1 +, absolute Malachi 2:16.
c. send away empty (-handed) רֵיקָם, + accusative of person Genesis 31:42 (E), Deuteronomy 15:13; Job 22:9.
d. send off, give a 'send-off' (sometimes escort part way), accusative of person, Genesis 18:16; Genesis 24:59; Genesis 31:27 (all J), 1 Samuel 9:26; 2 Kings 5:24; 2 Kings 6:23.
e. accusative of thing 1 Samuel 6:8; Nehemiah 8:12 +, with accusative of location 1 Samuel 5:10; 1 Samuel 6:3, אֶל person Jeremiah 27:3, etc.
2.
a. send away, subject י׳, accusative of person Genesis 19:29 (J; מִתּוֺךְ), 1 Kings 9:7 (פְּנֵי מֵעַל).
b. give over, accusative of person Psalm 81:13 (ב of evil).
c. cast out, accusative of person Jeremiah 28:16 (מֵעַל־פְּנֵי), Leviticus 18:24; Leviticus 20:23 (both מִפְּנֵי מִמְּנֵי).
d. send out, forth, send on a mission, especially of י׳, with accusative of hornet Deuteronomy 7:20, compare Deuteronomy 28:20; Deuteronomy 32:24 (all ב person), serpents Numbers 21:6 (E; ב person), lions 2 Kings 17:25, 26 (both id.), foes 2 Kings 24:2 (twice in verse) (+ infinitive purpose); pestilence Amos 4:10; Ezekiel 28:23 (ב person), etc.; also springs into (ב) channel Psalm 104:10.
3. let go, set free (sometimes with חָפְשִׁי) Exodus 4:23; Exodus 5:2 (twice in verse) (all J E), 2 Samuel 3:21, 23, 24 +; = cease to abuse Judges 19:25; + infinitive purpose Genesis 24:56 (J), Exodus 5:1 (E; + 10 times Exodus), 1 Samuel 5:11; with accusative of bird Genesis 8:7, 8 (+ מֵאִתּוֺ) +; + הַשָּׂדֶה על־פְּנֵי Leviticus 14:7, compare Leviticus 14:53 (both P); = let loose, accusative of beast, Exodus 22:4 (E), Leviticus 16:22 (ב location); accusative of bridle Job 30:11 (figurative); metaphor of strife Proverbs 6:14, 19; Proverbs 16:28; let loose waters, subject י׳, Job 12:15.
4. shoot forth branches, Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 80:12; Ezekiel 31:5 (but see I. שֶׁלַךְ 2); compare of locks (פֶּרַע) Ezekiel 44:20 = let grow long.
5. let down, accusative of person Jeremiah 38:6 (ב instrumental), accusative of thing Jeremiah 38:11 (id. + אֶל person and location).
6. shoot (accusative of arrow omitted), לִי לְשַׁ׳ לְמַטָּרָה 1 Samuel 20:20.
7. phrases: שִׁלַּח (אֶת־)הָעִיר בָאֵשׁ † Judges 1:8; Judges 20:48, compare 2 Kings 8:12; Psalm 74:7; but also אֵשׁ בְּ שׁ׳ † Amos 1:4, 7, 10, 12; Amos 2:2, 5; Hosea 8:14; Ezekiel 39:6; rare expressions are: בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָם וַיְשַׁלְּחֵם Job 8:4 (God subject); stretch out hand, ב of thing (for use) Proverbs 31:19, ל person (charity) Proverbs 31:20; חֶבְלֵיהֶם תְּשַׁלַּחְנָה Job 39:3 (of hinds, bearing); הַמָּ֑יִם עַל־פְּנֵי לַחְמְךָ שַׁלַּח Ecclesiastes 11:1. — רַגְלַי שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ Job 30:12 is corrupt; Theod Ew Di רַגְלָם שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ; Me Bu Be and others dittograph from Job 30:11b.
Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שֻׁלַּךְ Judges 5:15; Job 18:8, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְשֻׁלַּח Proverbs 17:11; Participle מְשֻׁלָח Isaiah 16:2 +; — be sent off (started on journey) Genesis 44:3 (J); with commission, ב person Obadiah; Proverbs 17:11, אֶל person Daniel 10:11; be put away, divorced, of wife Isaiah 50:1 (figurative); be impelled (?), בְּרַגְלָיו (= at his heels ?), with ב location Judges 5:15 (verb dubious), compare שֻׁלַּח בְּרֶשֶׁת בְּרַגְלָיו Job 18:8 he is hurried into the net with his feet (? Greek Version of the LXX Du שֻׁלְּחָה רַגְלוֺ); קֵן מְשֻׁלָּח Isaiah 16:2 a driven (scattered) nest (|| עוֺף נוֺדֵד), compare וְנֶעֱזָב כַּמִּדְבָּר נָוֶה מְשׁ׳ Isaiah 27:10; נַעַר מְשׁ׳ Proverbs 29:15 a boy let loose (unrestrained).
†Hiph. Perfect 1st person singular וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֫י and I (י׳) will send famine, בָּאָרֶץ Amos 8:11, compare Ezekiel 14:13, wild beasts; ב person Leviticus 26:22 (H); Participle מַשְׁלִיחַ, accusative of flies, ב person Exodus 8:17 (J); Infinitive construct לְהַשְׁלִיחַ accusative of foe, ב of a people 2 Kings 15:37.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7972.
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Genesis

3:22; 3:22; 8:7; 8:8; 8:10; 18:16; 19:29; 21:14; 22:12; 24:7; 24:40; 24:56; 24:59; 25:6; 27:45; 28:5; 28:6; 31:27; 31:42; 32:6; 32:19; 32:27; 37:13; 37:14; 37:22; 38:17; 38:17; 38:23; 38:25; 42:4; 42:4; 43:4; 43:8; 44:3; 45:5; 49:21

Exodus

2:5; 3:12; 3:13; 3:20; 4:23; 4:23; 5:1; 5:2; 5:22; 8:17; 8:28; 9:14; 9:14; 9:15; 22:4; 22:7; 22:10; 24; 24:5; 33:2

Leviticus

14:7; 14:53; 16:10; 16:22; 16:26; 18:24; 20:23; 26:22

Numbers

13:3; 21:6; 21:32; 22:15; 22:15; 22:37

Deuteronomy

7:20; 15:13; 22:7; 22:19; 22:29; 24:1; 24:3; 25:11; 28:20; 32:24

Joshua

7:22; 24:28

Judges

1:8; 3:15; 5:15; 5:15; 5:26; 6:14; 6:21; 7:8; 11:38; 12:9; 15:15; 19:25; 19:29; 20:6; 20:48

1 Samuel

5:10; 5:11; 6:3; 6:8; 9:26; 10:23; 11:3; 14:27; 15:1; 15:18; 16:20; 20:20; 20:22; 20:31; 22:11; 22:17; 22:17; 24:11; 25:14; 31:9

2 Samuel

1:14; 3:21; 3:23; 3:24; 6:6; 10:3; 10:7; 11:6; 11:6; 11:12; 12:1; 13:16; 13:17; 14:29; 18:12; 22:15; 24:16

1 Kings

5:8; 5:9; 9:7; 11:22; 13:4; 14:6; 20:5; 20:17; 20:34

2 Kings

1:16; 2:2; 2:4; 2:6; 2:16; 2:17; 2:17; 5:5; 5:6; 5:24; 6:14; 6:23; 8:12; 11:14; 15:37; 17:25; 17:26; 20:12; 22:3; 24:2

1 Chronicles

13:9; 19:4

2 Chronicles

16:4

Nehemiah

6:5; 8:12

Esther

1:22; 2:21; 3:13; 4:4; 9:10

Job

1:5; 1:11; 1:12; 2:5; 8:4; 12:15; 18:8; 18:8; 22:9; 28:9; 30:11; 30:11; 30:12; 30:24; 39:3

Psalms

18:15; 20:3; 43:3; 50:19; 57:4; 74:7; 80:12; 81:13; 104:10; 105:28; 107:20; 138:7; 144:6; 144:7; 147:15

Proverbs

6:14; 6:14; 6:19; 16:28; 17:11; 17:11; 29:15; 31:19; 31:20

Ecclesiastes

11:1

Song of Songs

5:4

Isaiah

6:8; 9:7; 16:2; 16:2; 27:10; 45:13; 50:1; 55:11; 58:9; 58:9

Jeremiah

1:9; 3:1; 3:1; 7:25; 14:3; 14:14; 14:15; 17:8; 19:14; 24:5; 25:4; 25:16; 27:3; 28:16; 29:20; 29:28; 38:6; 38:11; 40:14; 42:9; 48:12

Ezekiel

2:9; 3:6; 8:3; 8:17; 10:7; 14:13; 23:40; 28:23; 31:5; 39:6; 44:20

Daniel

10:11

Hosea

5:13; 8:14

Amos

1:4; 1:7; 1:10; 1:12; 2:2; 2:5; 4:10; 8:11

Zechariah

2:13; 7:12

Malachi

2:16

H7971

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Strong's Number H7971 matches the Hebrew שָׁלַח (šālaḥ),
which occurs 62 times in 56 verses in '2Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:14 - Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:15 - And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:21 - And Abner said to David, “I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:6 - And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - And David said, “I will deal loyally[fn] with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:4 - So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 - When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:7 - And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates.[fn] They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4 - So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:5 - And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 - So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12 - Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 - In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:27 - And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:1 - And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:25 - and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah,[fn] because of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:7 - Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare food for him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - But she said to him, “No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.”[fn] But he would not listen to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:27 - But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:10 - But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for[fn] Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:36 - Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:2 - And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - And the king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:11 - And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?[fn]

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