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1
And it was told
Joab
,
Behold
, the king
weepeth
and mourneth
for Absalom
.
2
And the victory
that day
was
turned
into mourning
unto all the people
:
for the people
heard
say
that day
how the king
was grieved
for his son
.
3
And the people
gat
them by stealth
that day
into the city
,
as people
being ashamed
steal away
when they flee
in battle
.
4
But the king
covered
his face
, and the king
cried
with a loud
voice
,
O
my son
Absalom
,
O
Absalom
,
my son
,
my son
!
5
And Joab
came
into the house
to the king
,
and said
, Thou hast shamed
this day
the faces
of all
thy servants
,
which
this day
have saved
thy life
,
and the lives
of thy sons
and of thy daughters
,
and the lives
of thy wives
,
and the lives
of thy concubines
;
6
In that thou lovest
thine enemies
,
and hatest
thy friends
.
For thou hast declared
this day
,
that thou regardest neither princes
nor servants
:
for
this day
I perceive
, that if
Absalom
had lived
,
and all
we had died
this day
,
then
it had pleased thee well.
7
Now
therefore arise
,
go forth
,
and speak
comfortably
unto thy servants
:
for I swear
by the LORD
,
if
thou go not forth
,
there will not tarry
one
with thee this night
: and that will be worse unto thee than
all
the evil
that befell
thee from thy youth
until
now
.
8
Then
the king
arose
,
and sat
in the gate
.
And they told
unto
all
the people
,
saying
,
Behold
,
the king
doth sit
in the gate
.
And
all
the people
came
before
the king
:
for Israel
had fled
every man
to his tent
.
9
And
all
the people
were at strife
throughout
all
the tribes
of Israel
,
saying
,
The king
saved
us out of the hand
of our enemies,
and he delivered
us out of the hand
of the Philistines
;
and
now
he is fled
out of the land
for Absalom
.
10
And Absalom
,
whom
we anointed
over
us, is dead
in battle
.
Now
therefore
why
speak
ye not a word of bringing
the king
back
?
11
And king
David
sent
to Zadok
and to Abiathar
the priests
,
saying
,
Speak
unto the elders
of Judah
,
saying
,
Why
are ye the last
to bring
the king
back
to his
house
? seeing the speech
of all
Israel
is come
to
the king
,
even
to his
house
.
12
Ye
are
my brethren
,
ye
are
my bones
and my flesh
:
wherefore then are ye the last
to bring back
the
king
?
13
And say
ye to Amasa
,
Art
thou not of my bone
, and of my flesh? God
do
so
to
me
, and more
also
,
if
thou be not captain
of the host
before
me
continually
in the room
of Joab
.
14
And he bowed
the heart
of all
the men
of Judah
,
even as
the heart
of
one
man
;
so that they sent
this word
unto the king
,
Return
thou,
and all
thy servants.
15
So
the king
returned
,
and
came
to
Jordan
.
And Judah
came
to Gilgal
,
to go
to meet
the king
, to conduct
the king
over
Jordan
.
16
And Shimei
the son
of Gera
,
a Benjamite
,
which
was
of Bahurim
,
hasted
and came down
with the men
of Judah
to meet
king
David
.
17
And
there 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
Jordan
before
the king
.
18
And there went over
a ferry boat
to carry over
the king
's
household
,
and to do
what he thought
good
.
And Shimei
the son
of Gera
fell down
before
the king
,
as he was come over
Jordan
;
19
And said
unto
the king
,
Let not my lord
impute
iniquity
unto me, neither do thou remember
that which thy servant
did perversely
the day
that my lord
the king
went out
of Jerusalem,
that
the king
should take
it to his heart
.
20
For thy servant
doth know
that I have sinned
: therefore,
behold
, I am come
the first
this day
of all
the house
of Joseph
to go down
to meet
my lord
the king
.
21
But Abishai
the son
of Zeruiah
answered
and said
,
Shall not Shimei
be put to death
for this,
because
he cursed
the LORD'S
anointed
?
22
And David
said
,
What
have I to do with you, ye sons
of Zeruiah
,
that ye should
this day
be adversaries
unto me? shall there any man
be put to death
this day
in
Israel
? for do not I know
that I
am
this day
king
over
Israel
?
23
Therefore the king
said
unto Shimei
,
Thou shalt not die
.
And the king
sware
unto him.
24
And Mephibosheth
the son
of Saul
came down
to meet
the king
,
and had neither
dressed
his feet
,
nor
trimmed
his beard
,
nor
washed
his clothes
,
from the day
the king
departed
until
the day
he came
again
in peace
.
25
And it came to pass,
when
he was come
to Jerusalem
to meet
the king
,
that
the king
said
unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me,
Mephibosheth
?
26
And he answered
,
My lord
,
O king
,
my servant
deceived
me:
for
thy servant
said
,
I will saddle
me an ass
,
that I may ride
thereon,
and go
to the king
;
because thy servant
is
lame
.
27
And he hath slandered
thy servant
unto my lord
the king
;
but my lord
the king
is
as an angel
of God
:
do
therefore
what is
good
in thine eyes
.
28
For all
of
my father's
house
were but
dead
men
before my lord
the king
:
yet
didst thou set
thy servant
among them that did eat
at thine own table
.
What
right
therefore have
I
yet
to cry any more unto
the king
?
29
And the king
said
unto him,
Why
speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have
said
,
Thou and Ziba
divide
the land
.
30
And Mephibosheth
said
unto
the king
, Yea, let him take
all
, forasmuch as
my lord
the king
is come again
in peace
unto his own house
.
31
And Barzillai
the Gileadite
came down
from Rogelim
,
and went over
Jordan
with the king
,
to conduct
him over
Jordan
.
32
Now Barzillai
was a very
aged
man
,
even
fourscore
years
old
:
and he had provided the king
of sustenance
while he lay
at Mahanaim
;
for he
was
a very
great
man
.
33
And the king
said
unto Barzillai
,
Come thou over
with me, and I will feed
thee with me in Jerusalem
.
34
And Barzillai
said
unto the king
,
How
long have I to live,
that I should go up
with the king
unto
Jerusalem
?
35
I
am
this day
fourscore
years
old
:
and
can
I discern
between
good
and evil?
can
thy servant
taste
what
I eat
or
what
I drink
?
can
I hear
any more the voice
of singing men
and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant
be yet a burden
unto my lord
the
king
?
36
Thy servant
will go
a little way
over
Jordan
with the king
:
and why should the king
recompense
it me with such a reward?
37
Let thy servant
, I pray thee, turn back again,
that I may die
in mine own city
,
and be buried
by the grave
of my father
and of my mother
.
But behold thy servant
Chimham
;
let him go over
with my lord
the king
;
and do
to him
what
shall seem good unto thee.
38
And the king
answered
,
Chimham
shall go
over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and
what
soever thou shalt require of me,
that
will I do for thee.
39
And all the people
went over
Jordan
.
And when
the king
was come over
,
the king
kissed
Barzillai
,
and blessed
him; and he returned
unto his own place
.
40
Then
the king
went on
to Gilgal
,
and Chimham
went on
with him:
and all
the people
of Judah
conducted
the king
,
and also
half
the people
of Israel
.
41
And, behold,
all
the
men
of Israel
came
to
the king
,
and said
un
to
the king
,
Why
have our brethren
the
men
of Judah
stolen thee away
,
and have brought
the king
,
and his household
,
and
all
David's
men
with him, over
Jordan
?
42
And
all
the men
of Judah
answered
the men
of Israel
,
Because
the king
is
near of kin
to us: wheref
or
e then be ye angry f
or
this
matter? have we eaten
at
all
of the king's
cost
?
or
hath he given
us any gift?
43
And
the men
of Israel
answered
the men
of Judah
,
and said
,
We have ten
parts
in
the king
, and we
have
also
more
right
in David
than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice
should not be first
had in bringing back
our king? And
the words
of
the men
of Judah
were fiercer
than
the words
of
the men
of Israel
.
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