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2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 1:2 אֶל prep it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
• 2 Samuel 1:3 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms David said to him, From whence come you? He said to him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
• 2 Samuel 1:4 אֵלָ֥י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
• 2 Samuel 1:5 אֶל prep David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
• 2 Samuel 1:7 אֵלָ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, Here am I.
• 2 Samuel 1:8 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
• 2 Samuel 1:9 אֵלַ֗/י prep + sfx pers 1cs He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
• 2 Samuel 1:10 אֶל prep So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.
• 2 Samuel 1:13 אֶל prep David said to the young man who told him, Whence are you? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.
• 2 Samuel 1:14 אֵלָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?
• 2 Samuel 1:16 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
• 2 Samuel 1:24 אֶל prep You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
• 2 Samuel 2:1 אֵלָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? Yahweh said to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To Hebron.
• 2 Samuel 2:5 אֶל אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם prep prep + sfx pers 3mp David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
• 2 Samuel 2:9 אֶל וְ/אֶל וְ/אֶֽל prep conj + prep conj + prep and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
• 2 Samuel 2:14 אֶל prep Abner said to Joab, Please let the young men arise and play before us. Joab said, Let them arise.
• 2 Samuel 2:22 אֶל אֶל prep prep Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?
• 2 Samuel 2:23 אֶל אֶֽל prep prep However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
• 2 Samuel 2:26 אֶל prep Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?"
• 2 Samuel 3:7 אֶל אֶל prep prep Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
• 2 Samuel 3:8 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
• 2 Samuel 3:12 אֶל אֵלֶ֖י/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.
• 2 Samuel 3:14 אֶל prep David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
• 2 Samuel 3:16 אֵלָ֥י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and he returned.
• 2 Samuel 3:18 אֶל prep now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
• 2 Samuel 3:20 אֶל prep So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
• 2 Samuel 3:21 אֶל אֶל prep prep 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 soul desires. David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
• 2 Samuel 3:23 אֶל prep When Joab and all the host who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
• 2 Samuel 3:24 אֶל אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?
• 2 Samuel 3:27 אֶל prep When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
• 2 Samuel 3:29 וְ/אֶ֖ל conj + prep let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.
• 2 Samuel 3:31 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
• 2 Samuel 3:32 אֶל prep They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
• 2 Samuel 3:33 אֶל prep The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?
• 2 Samuel 3:38 אֶל prep The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
• 2 Samuel 4:5 אֶל prep The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
• 2 Samuel 4:6 אֶל prep They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
• 2 Samuel 4:8 אֶל אֶל prep prep They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
• 2 Samuel 5:1 אֶל prep Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
• 2 Samuel 5:3 אֶל prep So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they anointed David king over Israel.
• 2 Samuel 5:6 אֶל prep The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here; thinking, David can't come in here.
• 2 Samuel 5:8 אֶל prep David said on that day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and [strike] the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. Therefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he can't come into the house.
• 2 Samuel 5:11 אֶל prep Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
• 2 Samuel 5:17 אֶל prep When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
• 2 Samuel 5:19 אֶל אֶל prep prep David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.
• 2 Samuel 5:23 אֶל prep When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees.
• 2 Samuel 6:3 אֶל prep They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
• 2 Samuel 6:6 אֶל prep When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.
• 2 Samuel 6:9 אֵלַ֖/י prep + sfx pers 1cs David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?
• 2 Samuel 6:10 אֵלָ֛י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
• 2 Samuel 6:21 אֶל prep David said to Michal, [It was] before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel: therefore will I play before Yahweh.
• 2 Samuel 7:2 אֶל prep that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
• 2 Samuel 7:3 אֶל prep Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.
• 2 Samuel 7:4 אֶל prep It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,
• 2 Samuel 7:5 אֶל אֶל prep prep Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
• 2 Samuel 7:17 אֶל prep According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
• 2 Samuel 7:19 אֶל prep This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
• 2 Samuel 7:20 אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
• 2 Samuel 7:27 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms For you, Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
• 2 Samuel 7:28 אֶֽל prep Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant:
• 2 Samuel 8:7 אֶ֖ל prep David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
• 2 Samuel 8:10 אֶל prep then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
• 2 Samuel 9:2 אֶל אֵלָ֛י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? He said, Your servant is he.
• 2 Samuel 9:3 אֶל prep The king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him? Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet.
• 2 Samuel 9:4 אֶל prep The king said to him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.
• 2 Samuel 9:6 אֶל prep Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said, Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your servant!
• 2 Samuel 9:8 אֶל prep He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
• 2 Samuel 9:9 אֶל אֵלָ֑י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given to your master's son.
• 2 Samuel 9:11 אֶל prep Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
• 2 Samuel 10:2 אֶל prep David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shown kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
• 2 Samuel 10:3 אֶל אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
• 2 Samuel 10:9 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
• 2 Samuel 11:4 אֵלָי/ו֙ אֶל prep + sfx pers 3ms prep David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
• 2 Samuel 11:6 אֶל אֵלַ֔/י אֶל prep prep + sfx pers 1cs prep David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David.
• 2 Samuel 11:7 אֵלָ֑י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
• 2 Samuel 11:9 אֶל prep But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.
• 2 Samuel 11:10 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
• 2 Samuel 11:11 אֶל אֶל prep prep Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
• 2 Samuel 11:12 אֶל prep David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
• 2 Samuel 11:13 וְ/אֶל conj + prep When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
• 2 Samuel 11:14 אֶל prep It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
• 2 Samuel 11:15 אֶל prep He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
• 2 Samuel 11:16 אֶל אֶל prep prep It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
• 2 Samuel 11:19 אֶל prep and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
• 2 Samuel 11:20 אֶל prep it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
• 2 Samuel 11:21 אֶל prep who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
• 2 Samuel 11:23 אֶל אֵלֵ֖י/נוּ prep prep + sfx pers 1cp The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
• 2 Samuel 11:24 אֶל prep The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
• 2 Samuel 11:25 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.
• 2 Samuel 11:27 אֶל prep When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
• 2 Samuel 12:1 אֶל אֵלָ֗י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
• 2 Samuel 12:4 אֵלָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
• 2 Samuel 12:5 אֶל prep David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
• 2 Samuel 12:7 אֶל prep Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
• 2 Samuel 12:13 אֶל אֶל prep prep David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
• 2 Samuel 12:15 אֶל prep Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
• 2 Samuel 12:18 אֵלָי/ו֙ אֵלָ֛י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 3ms It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
• 2 Samuel 12:19 אֶל prep But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
• 2 Samuel 12:20 אֶל prep Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
• 2 Samuel 12:21 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
• 2 Samuel 12:23 אֵלָ֔י/ו אֵלָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 1cs But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
• 2 Samuel 12:24 אֵלֶ֖י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
• 2 Samuel 12:27 אֶל prep Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters.
• 2 Samuel 13:5 אֵלָ֡י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.
• 2 Samuel 13:6 אֶל prep So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.
• 2 Samuel 13:7 אֶל prep Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
• 2 Samuel 13:10 אֶל prep Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
• 2 Samuel 13:11 אֵלָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
• 2 Samuel 13:13 אֶל prep I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.
• 2 Samuel 13:20 אֵלֶ֜י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: he is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
• 2 Samuel 13:24 אֶל prep Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant has sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants go with your servant.
• 2 Samuel 13:25 אֶל prep The king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you. He pressed him: however he would not go, but blessed him.
• 2 Samuel 13:28 אֲלֵי/כֶ֔ם prep + sfx pers 2mp Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• 2 Samuel 13:30 אֶל prep It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
• 2 Samuel 13:33 אֶל prep Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
• 2 Samuel 13:35 אֶל prep Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant said, so it is.
• 2 Samuel 13:37 אֶל prep But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day.
• 2 Samuel 13:39 אֶל prep [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• 2 Samuel 14:2 אֵ֠לֶי/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:
• 2 Samuel 14:3 אֶל אֵלָ֖י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
• 2 Samuel 14:4 אֶל prep When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
• 2 Samuel 14:8 אֶל prep The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.
• 2 Samuel 14:9 אֶל prep The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
• 2 Samuel 14:10 אֵלַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 2fs prep + sfx pers 1cs The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.
• 2 Samuel 14:12 אֶל prep Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.
• 2 Samuel 14:15 אֶל אֶל prep prep Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
• 2 Samuel 14:18 אֶל prep Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
• 2 Samuel 14:21 אֶל prep The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
• 2 Samuel 14:22 אֶל prep Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.
• 2 Samuel 14:24 אֶל אֶל prep prep The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.
• 2 Samuel 14:29 אֶל אֶל אֵלָ֑י/ו prep prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
• 2 Samuel 14:30 אֶל אֶל prep prep Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
• 2 Samuel 14:31 אֶל אֵלָ֔י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?
• 2 Samuel 14:32 אֶל אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ אֶל prep prep + sfx pers 2ms prep Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
• 2 Samuel 14:33 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 15:2 אֶל אֵלָי/ו֙ prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
• 2 Samuel 15:3 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you.
• 2 Samuel 15:6 אֶל prep In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
• 2 Samuel 15:7 אֶל prep It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
• 2 Samuel 15:13 אֶל prep There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 15:15 אֶל prep The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose.
• 2 Samuel 15:19 אֶל prep Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with us? return, and abide with the king: for you are a foreigner, and also an exile; [return] to your own place.
• 2 Samuel 15:22 אֶל prep David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
• 2 Samuel 15:27 אֶל prep The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
• 2 Samuel 15:36 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything that you shall hear.
• 2 Samuel 16:2 אֶל prep The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.
• 2 Samuel 16:3 אֶל prep The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
• 2 Samuel 16:9 אֶל prep Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
• 2 Samuel 16:11 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
• 2 Samuel 16:16 אֶל אֶל prep prep It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, [Long] live the king, [Long] live the king.
• 2 Samuel 16:17 אֶל prep Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?
• 2 Samuel 16:18 אֶל prep Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
• 2 Samuel 16:20 אֶל prep Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what we shall do.
• 2 Samuel 16:21 אֶל אֶל prep prep Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred of your father: then will the hands of all who are with you be strong.
• 2 Samuel 16:22 אֶל prep So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
• 2 Samuel 17:1 אֶל prep Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
• 2 Samuel 17:3 אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.
• 2 Samuel 17:6 אֶל אֵלָ֜י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak up.
• 2 Samuel 17:7 אֶל prep Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.
• 2 Samuel 17:12 אֵלָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.
• 2 Samuel 17:13 אֶל אֶל prep prep Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found there.
• 2 Samuel 17:14 אֶל prep Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 17:15 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled.
• 2 Samuel 17:18 אֶל prep But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
• 2 Samuel 17:20 אֶֽל prep Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
• 2 Samuel 17:21 אֶל prep It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.
• 2 Samuel 17:23 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• 2 Samuel 17:25 אֶל prep Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
• 2 Samuel 18:2 אֶל prep David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
• 2 Samuel 18:3 אֵלֵ֣י/נוּ אֵלֵ֨י/נוּ֙ prep + sfx pers 1cp prep + sfx pers 1cp But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
• 2 Samuel 18:4 אֲלֵי/הֶם֙ אֶל prep + sfx pers 3mp prep The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. The king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
• 2 Samuel 18:12 אֶל אֶל prep prep The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [pieces of] silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 18:17 אֶל prep They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
• 2 Samuel 18:22 אֶל prep Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come what may, Please let me also run after the Cushite. Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?
• 2 Samuel 18:24 אֶל אֶל prep prep Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
• 2 Samuel 18:26 אֶל prep The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. The king said, He also brings news.
• 2 Samuel 18:27 וְ/אֶל conj + prep The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, He is a good man, and comes with good news.
• 2 Samuel 18:28 אֶל prep Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
• 2 Samuel 18:32 אֶל prep The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you hurt, be as that young man is.
• 2 Samuel 19:5 אֶל prep Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
• 2 Samuel 19:11 אֶל וְ/אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל prep conj + prep prep prep prep prep King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [to bring him] to his house.
• 2 Samuel 19:14 אֶל prep He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return you, and all your servants.
• 2 Samuel 19:19 אֶל אֶל prep prep He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
• 2 Samuel 19:23 אֶל prep The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king swore to him.
• 2 Samuel 19:27 אֶל prep He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.
• 2 Samuel 19:28 אֶל prep For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?
• 2 Samuel 19:30 אֶל אֶל prep prep Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, because my lord the king is come in peace to his own house.
• 2 Samuel 19:33 אֶל prep The king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.
• 2 Samuel 19:34 אֶל prep Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
• 2 Samuel 19:35 אֶל prep I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
• 2 Samuel 19:41 אֶל אֶל prep prep Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
• 2 Samuel 19:42 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?
• 2 Samuel 20:3 אֶל וַ/אֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם prep conj + prep + sfx pers 3mp David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
• 2 Samuel 20:4 אֶל prep Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.
• 2 Samuel 20:6 אֶל prep David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
• 2 Samuel 20:10 אֶל prep But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
• 2 Samuel 20:15 אֶל prep They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
• 2 Samuel 20:16 אֶל אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"
• 2 Samuel 20:17 אֵלֶ֔י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.
• 2 Samuel 20:21 אֶל אֵלֶ֖י/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.