Tenakh Study

2 Samuel, chapter by chapter

Each chapter has its own page with the Hebrew text (with vowels and cantillation marks), a transliteration and a modernized King James translation, side by side. Our Messianic Jewish notes on the passage are shown on every chapter page; tap Commentary to hide them.

1. 1
   2 Samuel 1 · 27 verses

   The death of Shaul and David’s lament

   David hears of the deaths of Shaul and Yehonatan on Mount Gilboa, judges the Amaleki who claims to have killed the king, and mourns them in a lament: “How are the mighty fallen!”

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2. 2
   2 Samuel 2 · 32 verses

   David king in Chevron; war with the house of Shaul

   The men of Yehudah anoint David king in Chevron, while Avner makes Ish-Boshet king over the rest of Israel. War breaks out at the pool of Givon, and Asah’el falls.

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3. 3
   2 Samuel 3 · 39 verses

   Avner comes over to David and is killed

   David grows stronger. Avner breaks with Ish-Boshet and brings Israel over to David, but Yo’av kills him in the gate of Chevron. David mourns Avner before all the people.

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4. 4
   2 Samuel 4 · 12 verses

   The murder of Ish-Boshet

   Ish-Boshet loses heart after Avner’s death and is murdered in his bed by two of his own captains. David executes the killers, as he executed the Amaleki, and buries Ish-Boshet’s head in Avner’s tomb.

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5. 5
   2 Samuel 5 · 25 verses

   David king over all Israel; Yerushalayim taken

   All the tribes come to Chevron and anoint David king over all Israel. He takes Yerushalayim and makes it the city of David, and Hashem gives him two victories over the Pelishtim.

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6. 6
   2 Samuel 6 · 23 verses

   The ark comes to the city of David

   David sets out to bring the ark of God up to Yerushalayim on a new cart, and Uzza dies when he takes hold of it. Three months later the ark is carried up with offerings, shouting and dancing, and Michal despises David for it.

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