2Samuel 19
19And Joab was told, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom."H5046H3097H4428H1058H56H532So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard it said that day, "The king is grieved for his son."H8668H3117H60H5971H5971H8085H559H3117H4428H6087H11213And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.H5971H935H1589H3117H5892H5971H3637H1589H5127H44214But the king covered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!"H4428H3813H6440H4428H2199H1419H6963H1121H53H53H1121H11215Then Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "Today you have disgraced all your servants who today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,H3097H935H1004H4428H559H3001H3117H6440H5650H3117H4422H5315H5315H1121H1323H5315H802H5315H63706"in that you love your enemies and hate your friends. For you have declared today that you regard neither princes nor servants; for today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you well.H157H8130H8130H157H5046H3117H8269H5650H3117H3045H3863H53H2416H4191H3117H3477H58697"Now therefore, arise, go out and speak comfort to your servants. For I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now."H6965H3318H1696H3820H5650H7650H3068H3318H3885H376H3915H7489H7451H935H52718Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, "There is the king, sitting in the gate." So all the people came before the king. For everyone of Israel had fled to his tent.H4428H6965H3427H8179H5046H5971H559H4428H3427H8179H5971H935H6440H4428H3478H5127H376H1689Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.H5971H1777H7626H3478H559H4428H5337H3709H341H4422H3709H6430H1272H776H5310"But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now therefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king?"H53H4886H4191H4421H2790H7725H4428H772511So King David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the words of all Israel have come to the king, to his very house?H4428H1732H7971H6659H54H3548H559H1696H2205H3063H559H314H7725H4428H7725H1004H1697H3478H935H4428H100412'You are my brethren, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'H251H6106H1320H314H7725H442813"And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.'"H559H6021H6106H1320H430H6213H3254H8269H6635H6440H3117H8478H309714So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah, just as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word to the king: "Return, you and all your servants!"H5186H3824H376H3063H259H376H7971H4428H7725H565015Then the king returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to escort the king across the Jordan.H4428H7725H935H3383H3063H935H1537H3212H7125H4428H5674H4428H5674H338316And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who was from Bahurim, hastened and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.H8096H1121H1617H1145H980H4116H3381H376H3063H7125H4428H173217There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king.H505H376H1145H6717H5288H1004H7586H2568H6240H1121H6242H5650H6743H3383H6440H442818Then a ferryboat went across to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Now Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan.H5674H5679H5674H4428H1004H6213H5869H2896H8096H1121H1617H5307H6440H4428H5674H338319Then he said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my lord the king left Jerusalem, that the king should take it to heart.H559H4428H113H2803H5771H2142H5650H5753H3117H113H4428H3318H3389H4428H7760H382020"For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. Therefore here I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."H5650H3045H2398H935H7223H3117H1004H3130H3381H7125H113H442821But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"H52H1121H6870H6030H559H8096H4191H7043H3068H489922And David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?"H1732H559H1121H6870H3117H7854H376H4191H3117H3478H3045H3117H4428H347823Therefore the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king swore to him.H4428H559H8096H4191H4428H765024Now Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he returned in peace.H4648H1121H7586H3381H7125H4428H3808H6213H7272H6213H8222H3526H899H3117H4428H3212H3117H935H796525So it was, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"H935H3389H7125H4428H4428H559H1980H464826And he answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king,' because your servant is lame.H559H113H4428H5650H7411H5650H559H2280H2543H7392H3212H4428H5650H645527"And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.H7270H5650H113H4428H113H4428H4397H430H6213H2896H586928"For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out anymore to the king?"H1H1004H3808H4194H582H113H4428H7896H5650H398H7979H6666H3426H2199H442829So the king said to him, "Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, 'You and Ziba divide the land.'"H4428H559H1696H1697H559H6717H2505H770430Then Mephibosheth said to the king, "Rather, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house."H4648H559H4428H3947H310H834H113H4428H935H7965H100431And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and went across the Jordan with the king, to escort him across the Jordan.H1271H1569H3381H7274H5674H3383H4428H7971H338332Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.H1271H3966H2204H8084H8141H1121H4428H3557H7871H4266H3966H1419H37633And the king said to Barzillai, "Come across with me, and I will provide for you while you are with me in Jerusalem."H4428H559H1271H5674H3557H338934But Barzillai said to the king, "How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?H1271H559H4428H3117H8141H2416H5927H4428H338935"I am today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?H3117H8084H8141H1121H3045H2896H7451H5650H2938H834H398H834H8354H8085H6963H7891H7891H5650H4853H113H442836"Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with such a reward?H5650H5674H4592H5674H3383H4428H4428H1580H157837"Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you."H5650H7725H4191H5892H6913H1H517H5650H3643H5674H113H4428H6213H2896H586938And the king answered, "Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you. Now whatever you request of me, I will do for you."H4428H559H3643H5674H6213H2896H5869H977H621339Then all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.H5971H5674H3383H4428H5674H4428H5401H1271H1288H7725H472540Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. And all the people of Judah escorted the king, and also half the people of Israel.H4428H5674H1537H3643H5674H5971H3063H5674H5674H4428H2677H5971H347841Just then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king, his household, and all David's men with him across the Jordan?"H376H3478H935H4428H559H4428H251H376H3063H1589H5674H4428H1004H1732H582H338342So all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative of ours. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we ever eaten at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"H376H3063H6030H376H3478H4428H7138H2734H1697H398H398H4428H5375H537943And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?" Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.H376H3478H6030H376H3063H559H6235H3027H4428H589H1732H7043H1697H7223H7725H4428H1697H376H3063H7185H1697H376H3478
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