Characters & Episodes in 2 Samuel
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2 Samuel 1
2 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 4
2 Samuel 5
David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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The Philistine Army
The iron-armed coastal invaders who assembled at Pas-dammim to plunder Israel's barley harvest — and were routed when Eleazar son of Dodo stood alone in the field until his hand froze to his sword.
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Daughter of Eliam, widow of Uriah the Hittite, and queen mother of King Solomon — through whom God redeemed a tragic royal failure into the Messianic line of Christ.
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2 Samuel 7
2 Samuel 9
Crown Prince Jonathan
Fearless warrior prince of Israel and heir to Saul's throne — whose soul was knit to David's, stripping off his own royal robe, armor, sword, bow, and belt to celebrate his covenant brother's calling.
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Lame son of Crown Prince Jonathan and grandson of Saul — fetched from Lo-debar by King David, restored to Saul's ancestral land, and seated continually at the King's table for Jonathan's sake.
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2 Samuel 12
King Solomon
Son of David and Bathsheba, builder of the First Temple, and royal Bridegroom of the Song of Songs who pursues the sun-scorched Shulammite with intentional affirmation and covenant love.
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Daughter of Eliam, widow of Uriah the Hittite, and queen mother of King Solomon — through whom God redeemed a tragic royal failure into the Messianic line of Christ.
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David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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King Saul
Israel's tall first monarch who cowered before Goliath in heavy bronze armor, hurled his spear at David and Jonathan in jealous rage, and broke Israel's oath with the Gibeonites.
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Rizpah
Fierce, grieving mother who spread sackcloth on the bare rock of Gibeah for six months — from barley harvest until the autumn rains — beating off vultures by day and jackals by night until King David honored her slain sons with burial.
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Firstborn son of Rizpah and King Saul, executed at Gibeah to atone for Saul's broken oath to the Gibeonites and guarded for six months by his mother's vigil on the rock.
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Younger son of Rizpah and King Saul (distinct from Jonathan's lame son Mephibosheth) whose body his mother guarded on the rock of Gibeah until David gave him honorable burial.
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The Amorite remnant bound to Israel by Joshua's 400-year-old covenant oath — whose unlawful slaughter by King Saul triggered a three-year famine in David's reign.
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Wealthy Benjamite man of standing and father of King Saul, in whose family tomb at Zela David buried the bones of Saul, Jonathan, and Rizpah's sons.
✦ Inspect DossierMephibosheth (son of Jonathan)
Lame son of Crown Prince Jonathan and grandson of Saul — fetched from Lo-debar by King David, restored to Saul's ancestral land, and seated continually at the King's table for Jonathan's sake.
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David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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Eleazar, Son of Dodo
Forged from a broken outlaw in the Cave of Adullam into one of David's Three Mighty Men — who stood alone in the barley field at Pas-dammim and struck down Philistines until his hand froze to his sword.
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Josheb-basshebeth
First among King David's elite Three Mighty Men — forged in the Cave of Adullam and renowned for wielding his spear against 800 enemy soldiers whom he killed at one time.
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Shammah, Son of Agee
Third of David's elite Three Mighty Men — who took his stand in the middle of a plot of lentils when the entire army fled from the Philistines, defended the field single-handedly, and saw the LORD work a great victory.
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The Philistine Army
The iron-armed coastal invaders who assembled at Pas-dammim to plunder Israel's barley harvest — and were routed when Eleazar son of Dodo stood alone in the field until his hand froze to his sword.
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The 400 men in distress, in debt, and bitter in soul who fled King Saul's broken kingdom into the Cave of Adullam — and whom David discipled into the legendary Mighty Men of Israel.
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