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II SAMUEL ยท Chapter 19
19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.
19:2 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.
19:3 And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as
people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed
this day the faces of all your servants, which this day have saved your
life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of
your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
19:6 In that you love your enemies, and hate your friends. For you
have declared this day, that you regard 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 you well.
19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto your
servants: for I swear by the LORD, if you go not forth, there will not
tarry one with you this night: and that will be worse unto you than all
the evil that befell you from your youth until now.
19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all
the people, saying, Behold, the king does sit in the gate. And all the
people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
19:9 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.
19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
therefore why speak all of you not a word of bringing the king back?
19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying,
Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are all of you the last to
bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel has come
to the king, even to his house.
19:12 All of you are my brethren, all of you are my bones and my flesh:
wherefore then are all of you the last to bring back the king?
19:13 And say all of you to Amasa, Are you not of my bone, and of my
flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you be not captain of the host
before me continually in the room of Joab.
19:14 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 you, and
all your servants.
19:15 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.
19:16 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.
19:17 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.
19:18 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;
19:19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto
me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the
day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take
it to his heart.
19:20 For your servant does 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.
19:21 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?
19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, all of you sons of
Zeruiah, that all of you 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?
19:23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, You shall not die. And the
king swore unto him.
19:24 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.
19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the
king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore went not you with me, Mephibosheth?
19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for
your servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and
go to the king; because your servant is lame.
19:27 And he has slandered your servant unto my lord the king; but
my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your
eyes.
19:28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord
the king: yet did you set your servant among them that did eat at your
own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
19:29 And the king said unto him, Why speak you any more of your matters?
I have said, You and Ziba divide the land.
19:30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch
as my lord the king has come again in peace unto his own house.
19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
19:32 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.
19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come you over with me, and
I will feed you with me in Jerusalem.
19:34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that
I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
19:35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between
good and evil? can your 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 your servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
19:36 Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king:
and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
19:37 Let your servant, I pray you, 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 your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king;
and do to him what shall seem good unto you.
19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will
do to him that which shall seem good unto you: and whatsoever you shall
require of me, that will I do for you.
19:39 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.
19:40 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.
19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said
unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away,
and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with
him, over Jordan?
19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because
the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be all of you angry for this
matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or has he given us any
gift?
19:43 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 all
of you: why then did all of you 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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