KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Samuel 3:13–15
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2 Samuel 3:13
13¶ And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
13¶ And he said, Well, I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, †that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Sauls daughter, when thou commest to see my face.
- Hebr. saying.
2 Samuel 3:14
14And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
14And Dauid sent messengers to Ishbosheth Sauls sonne, saying, Deliuer mee my wife Michal, which I espoused to mee for *an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines.
- 1.Sam. 18.25,27.
2 Samuel 3:15
15And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
15And Ishbosheth sent, and tooke her from her husband, euen from *Phaltiel the sonne of Laish.
- 1 Sam. 25.44. Phalti.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 3:13
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To establish or enter into what the verse names.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A covenant, agreement, or alliance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Only; no more than what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To ask, demand, call for, or hold someone accountable for what is due.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To exclude or leave out; also to object or make an exception.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Before all others in time, place, order, rank, or importance; the beginning or earliest.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 3:14
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
messengers
Persons who bear messages or errands; bearers of spoken or written communications or dispatches.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Promised in marriage.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Folds of skin covering the male organ, removed in circumcision.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 3:15
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A married man in relation to his wife; also one who manages or cultivates carefully.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
As far as, up to, or extending to the stated limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 13
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Open the full verse study3And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
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Open the full verse study29¶ And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
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Open the full verse study20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
22¶ And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.
23And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.
27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
28¶ And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
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Open the full verse study11Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12¶ So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
16And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
17And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
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Open the full verse study20So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
21And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
22¶ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
23When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
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Open the full verse study23And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
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Open the full verse study26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
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Open the full verse study25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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Open the full verse study10Ish-bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study44¶ But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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