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1
Then it was told
Joab,
"Behold,
the king
is weeping
and mourns
for Absalom."
2
The victory
that day
was turned
to mourning
for all
the people,
for the people
heard
it said
that day
,
"The king
is grieved
for his son."
3
So the people
went
by stealth
into the city
that day,
as people
who are humiliated
steal away
when they flee
in battle.
4
The king
covered
his face
and cried
out with a loud
voice,
"O my son
Absalom,
O
Absalom,
my son,
my son!"
5
Then Joab
came
into the house
to the king
and said,
"Today
you have covered with shame
the faces
of all
your servants,
who today
have saved
your life
and
the lives
of your sons
and daughters,
the lives
of your wives,
and
the lives
of your concubines,
6
by loving
those who hate
you, and by hating
those who love
you. For you have shown
today
that princes
and servants
are nothing
to you; for I know
this day
that if
Absalom
were alive
and all
of us were dead
today
,
then
you would be pleased.
7
"Now
therefore arise,
go
out and speak
kindly
to your servants,
for I swear
by the LORD,
if
you do not
go
out, surely
not a man
will pass
the night
with you, and this
will be worse
for you than
all
the evil
that has come
upon you from your youth
until
now."
8
So
the king
arose
and sat
in the gate.
When they told
all
the people
,
saying,
"Behold,
the king
is sitting
in the gate,"
then
all
the people
came
before
the king
.
Now Israel
had fled,
each
to his tent.
9
All
the people
were quarreling
throughout all
the tribes
of Israel,
saying,
"The king
delivered
us from the hand
of our enemies
and saved
us from the hand
of the Philistines,
but now
he has fled
out of the land
from Absalom.
10
"However, Absalom,
whom
we anointed
over
us, has died
in battle.
Now
then, why
are you silent
about bringing
the king
back?"
11
Then 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 word
of all
Israel
has come
to
the king
,
even to his house?
12
'
You are my brothers;
you are my bone
and my flesh.
Why
then should you be the last
to bring back
the king?'
13
"Say
to Amasa,
'Are you not my bone
and my flesh?
May God
do
so
to me, and more
also,
if
you will not be commander
of the army
before
me continually
in place
of Joab.'"
14
Thus he turned
the hearts
of all
the men
of Judah
as one
man,
so that they sent
word to the king,
saying, "Return,
you and all
your servants."
15
The king
then returned
and
came
as far
as
the Jordan.
And Judah
came
to Gilgal
in order to go
to meet
the king
,
to bring
the king
across
the Jordan.
16
Then Shimei
the son
of Gera,
the Benjamite
who
was from Bahurim,
hurried
and came down
with the men
of Judah
to meet
King
David.
17
There were a thousand
men
of Benjamin
with him, with Ziba
the servant
of the house
of Saul,
and his fifteen
sons
and his twenty
servants
with him; and they rushed
to the Jordan
before
the king.
18
Then they kept crossing
the ford
to bring
over
the king
's
household,
and to do
what was good
in his sight.
And Shimei
the son
of Gera
fell down
before
the king
as he was about to cross
the Jordan.
19
So he said
to
the king
,
"Let not
my lord
consider
me guilty,
nor
remember
what
your servant
did wrong
on the day
when
my lord
the king
came
out from Jerusalem,
so that
the king
would take
it to heart.
20
"For your servant
knows
that I have sinned;
therefore behold,
I have come
today,
the first
of all
the house
of Joseph
to go down
to meet
my lord
the king."
21
But Abishai
the son
of Zeruiah
said,
"Should not Shimei
be put to death
for this,
because
he cursed
the LORD'S
anointed?"
22
David
then said,
"What
have I to do with you, O sons
of Zeruiah,
that you should this day
be an adversary
to me? Should any man
be put to death
in
Israel
today?
For do I not know
that I am king
over
Israel
today?
"
23
The king
said
to Shimei,
"You shall not die."
Thus the king
swore
to him.
24
Then Mephibosheth
the son
of Saul
came down
to meet
the king
;
and he had neither
cared
for his feet,
nor
trimmed
his mustache,
nor
washed
his clothes,
from
the day
the king
departed
until
the day
he came
home in peace.
25
It was when
he came
from Jerusalem
to meet
the king,
that the king
said
to him, "Why
did you not go
with me, Mephibosheth?"
26
So he answered,
"O my lord,
the king,
my servant
deceived
me; for
your servant
said,
'I will saddle
a donkey
for myself that I may ride
on it and go
with
the king,
'
because
your servant
is lame.
27
"Moreover, 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 sight.
28
"For all
my father's
household
was nothing
but dead
men
before my lord
the king;
yet
you set
your servant
among those who ate
at your own table.
What
right
do I have
yet
that I should complain
anymore
to the king?"
29
So the king
said
to him, "Why
do you still
speak
of your affairs?
I have decided,
'You and Ziba
shall divide
the land.'"
30
Mephibosheth
said
to
the king
,
"Let him even
take
it all,
since
my lord
the king
has come
safely
to his own house."
31
Now Barzillai
the Gileadite
had come down
from Rogelim;
and he went
on to the Jordan
with the king
to escort
him over the Jordan.
32
Now Barzillai
was very
old,
being eighty
years
old;
and he had sustained
the king
while he stayed
at Mahanaim,
for he was a very
great
man.
33
The king
said
to Barzillai,
"You cross over
with me and I will sustain
you in Jerusalem
with me."
34
But Barzillai
said
to the king,
"How long
have I yet to live,
that I should go
up with the king
to Jerusalem?
35
"I am now
eighty
years
old.
Can I distinguish
between
good
and bad?
Or
can your servant
taste
what
I eat
or
what
I drink?
Or
can I hear
anymore
the voice
of singing
men and women? Why
then should your servant
be an added
burden
to my lord
the king?
36
"Your servant
would merely
cross over
the Jordan
with the king.
Why
should the king
compensate
me with this
reward?
37
"Please
let your servant
return,
that I may die
in my own city
near
the grave
of my father
and my mother.
However, here
is your servant
Chimham,
let him cross over
with my lord
the king,
and do
for him what
is good
in your sight."
38
The king
answered,
"Chimham
shall cross over
with me, and I will do
for him what is good
in your sight;
and whatever
you require
of me, I will do
for you."
39
All
the people
crossed
over
the Jordan
and the king
crossed
too. The king
then kissed
Barzillai
and blessed
him, and he returned
to his place.
40
Now the king
went
on to Gilgal,
and Chimham
went
on with him; and all
the people
of Judah
and also
half
the people
of Israel
accompanied
the king.
41
And behold,
all
the
men
of Israel
came
to
the king
and said
to
the king
,
"Why
had our brothers
the
men
of Judah
stolen you away,
and brought
the king
and his household
and
all
David's
men
with him over
the Jordan?"
42
Then all
the men
of Judah
answered
the men
of Israel,
"Because
the king
is a close relative
to us. Why
then are you angry
about
this
matter?
Have we eaten
at all
at
the king
's
expense, or
has anything been taken
for us?"
43
But
the men
of Israel
answered
the men
of Judah
and said,
"We have ten
parts
in the king,
therefore we also
have more
claim on David
than
you. Why
then did you treat us with contempt?
Was it not our advice
first
to bring back
our king?"
Yet
the words
of
the men
of Judah
were harsher
than
the words
of
the men
of Israel
.
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