3 The Lord sustains him on his sickbed;
in his illness you restore him to full health.1
2 the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;
he is called blessed in the land;
you gdo not give him up to the will of his enemies.
6 His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, dand he was born next after Absalom.
2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms,1 that my lord the king may be warm.”
16 Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”
2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms,1 that my lord the king may be warm.”
5 The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.” 6 Nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases you and take it away.’”
26 iMy flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is jthe strength1 of my heart and my kportion lforever.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,
my steps had nearly slipped.
16 I urge you, then, nbe imitators of me. 17 That is why oI sent1 you Timothy, pmy beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,2 qas I teach them everywhere in every church.
26 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. 27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
