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The Second Book of Samuel 19

19 And it was declared to Joab, “Look, the king is weeping, and he is morning for Absalom.” 2 And the victory on that day became mourning for all the people, for the people heard on that day, saying, “The king grieves for his son.” 3 And the people stole away on that day to enter the city, like people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in war. 4 And the king covered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, “My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son.”

5 And Joab came to the king, to the house, and he said, “You have shamed today the faces of all your servants, the ones who have saved your spirit today and the spirit of your sons and your daughters and the spirit of your wives and the spirit of your concubines 6 by loving those who hate you and by hating those who love you, for you have declared today that the captains and servants are nothing to you, for I know today that if only Absalom were living and all of us today were dead, that then it would be upright in your eyes. 7 But now, get up, go out and speak to the heart of your servants, for I swear by Yahweh that if you are not going out, a man will not remain with you tonight, and this will be more trouble for you than all the trouble which has come on you from your youth until now.”

8 And the king got up and sat in the gate. And all the people declared, saying, “Look, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came to the face of the king.

And Israel fled, each to his tent.

9 And it happened, all the people were arguing in all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the palm of our enemies, and he himself saved us from the palm of the Philistines. But now he has fled from the land away from Absalom. 10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in the war. And now, why are you being silent about returning the king?”

11 And King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to return the king to his house? And the word of all Israel has come to the king, to his house. 12 You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. And why are you last to return the king?’ 13 And to Amasa you will say, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? Thus may God do to me, and thus may he continue if you are not the captain of the army to the face of all the years in the place of Joab.’”

14 And he stretched out the heart of all the men of Judah as one man. And they sent to the king, “Return, you yourself, and all your servants.” 15 And the king returned, and he came up to the Jordan.

And Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan. 16 And Shimei the son of Gera the Benjaminite who was from Bahurim hurried. And he went down with the men of Judah to meet King David. 17 And 1,000 men were with him from Benjamin, and Ziba the young man of the house of Saul and 15 of his sons and 20 of his servants were with him. And they rushed into the Jordan to the face of the king. 18 And they crossed the ford to bring over the house of the king and to do what was good in his eyes.

And Shimei the son of Gera fell to the face of the king when he crossed in the Jordan. 19 And he said to the king, “May my lord not reckon to me iniquity, and may you not remember that your servant committed iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem by the king putting it to his heart. 20 For your servant knows that I myself have sinned, and look—I have come today first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord, the king.”

21 And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, and he said, “Instead of this, will Shimei not be killed? For he belittled the anointed one of Yahweh.”

22 And David said, “What is to me and to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you have become to me today an accuser? Will today a person in Israel be killed? Indeed, do I not know that today I am king over Israel?” 23 And the king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” And the king swore to him.

24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he did not do his feet, nor did he do his moustache, and his clothes he did not wash from the day the king went until the day that he came back in peace. 25 And it happened that he went to Jerusalem to meet the king. And the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

26 And he said, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said, ‘Let me saddle the donkey for myself, and let me ride on it, and let me go with the king.’ For your servant is lame. 27 And he slandered your servant to my lord the king. And my lord the king is like an angel of God. So do what is good in your eyes. 28 For all the house of my father was not except men of death to my lord the king, and you set your servant among those who ate at your table. And what more righteousness is there for me still to cry out to the king?”

29 And the king said to him, “Why do you speak still your words? I have said, ‘You and Ziba—you will divide the field.’”

30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Also let him take everything, after which my lord the king has come in peace to his house.”

31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim. And he crossed the Jordan with the king to send him to the Jordan. 32 And Barzillai was very old—a son of 80 years. And he himself sustained the king in his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said to Barzillai, “You, cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

34 And Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I may go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 A son of 80 years am I today. Do I know between good and evil, or can your servant taste that which he eats and that which I drink, or can I still hear the voice of the singing men and the singing women? And why will your servant further become a burden to my lord the king?” 36 Like a little thing, your servant will cross the Jordan with the king. And why will the king reward me with this reward? 37 Please, let your servant return, and let me die in my city with the grave of my father and my mother. And look, your servant Kimham—let him cross over with my lord the king. And do to him that which is good in your eyes.”

38 And the king said, “Kimham will cross over with me, and I myself will do for him that which is good in your eyes. And everything that you choose concerning me, I will do for you.”

39 And all the people crossed the Jordan, and the king crossed. And the king kissed Barzillai, and he blessed him, and he returned to his place.

40 And the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Kimham crossed over with him. And all the people of Judah brought the king over and also half the people of Israel.

41 And look—all the men of Israel were coming to the king. And they said to the king, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, steal you away? And they brought the king and his house over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him.”

42 And all the men of Judah answered to the men of Israel, “Because the king is near to me. And why does this burn to you concerning this matter? Have we surely eaten from the king? Or has he certainly lifted for us?”

43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and he said, “Ten hands belong to me in the king, and also in David—I more than you. And why have you belittled me? Was not my word first to me to bring back my king?”

But the word of the men of Judah was harsher than the word of the men of Israel.

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