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19 And it was declared to Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.” 2 And the victory on that day became mourning for all of the people, for the people heard on that day, saying, “The king is grieved because of his son.” 3 And the people stole away on that day to enter the city, as ashamed people steal away when they flee in battle. 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, “Today you have shamed the faces of all of your servants, the ones having rescued your life today and the life of your sons and your daughters and the life of your wives and the life of your concubines, 6 by loving the ones hating you and by hating the ones loving you. For you have declared today that the commanders and servants are nothing to you. For I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, that then it would be right in your eyes. 7 But now, arise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants, for I swear by Yahweh, if you are not going out, if a man will lodge with you tonight, and this will be more trouble for you than all of the trouble that has come on you from your youth until now.”
8 So the king arose and sat in the gate.
And they declared to all of the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all of the people came to the face of the king. But Israel had fled, a man to his tent.
9 And it happened, all of the people were contending in all of the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the palm of our enemies, and he, he rescued us from the palm of the Philistines. But now he has fled from the land, away from Absalom. 10 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in the battle. And now, why are you being silent about bringing back 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 bring back the king to his house? For the word of all of Israel has come to the king, to his house. 12 You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. So why are you last to bring back the king?’ 13 And to Amasa you shall say, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? Thus may God do to me, and thus may he add, if you are not the commander of the army to my face all of the years in place of Joab.’ ”
14 And he inclined the heart of every man of Judah as one man. And they sent to the king, “Return, you and all of your servants.” 15 And the king returned, and he came 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 came down with a man 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 his 15 sons and his 20 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 the 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 iniquity to me, and may you not remember that your servant committed iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, for the king to set it to his heart. 20 For your servant knows that I, I have sinned, and behold, I have come today, the first of all of the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
21 And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, answered and said, “In place of this, shall not Shimei be killed? For he cursed the anointed of Yahweh.”
22 And David said, “What to me and to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you have become an adversary to me today? Shall a man be killed in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?” 23 And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore to him.
24 And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, came down to meet the king. And he had not done his feet, and he had not done his mustache, and he had not washed his clothes from the day the king went up to the day that he came in peace. 25 And it happened that he came from 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 a 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. But my lord the king is like an angel of God, so do the good in your eyes. 28 For all of the house of my father was nothing except men of death to my lord the king, but you set your servant among the eaters at your table. So what right is there still for me to cry out more to the king?”
29 And the king said to him, “Why do you still speak your words? I have said, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the field.’ ”
30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him even take the whole, after that 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 across the Jordan. 32 Now Barzillai had aged greatly, a son of 80 years. And he, he had 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 sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
34 But Barzillai said to the king, “How many will be the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 I am a son of 80 years today. Do I know between good to bad? Or does your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or do I still hear the voice of the male singers or the female singers? So why should your servant become a further burden to my lord the king?” 36 According to a little your servant will go across the Jordan with the king. But why will the king reward me this reward? 37 Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your eyes.”
38 And the king said, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I, I shall do for him the good in your eyes. And all that you choose upon me, I shall do for you.”
39 And all of 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 passed on to Gilgal, and Chimham passed on with him. And all of the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half of the people of Israel.
41 And behold, all of 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 bring the king and his house across the Jordan and all of the men of David with him?”
42 And each man of Judah answered to a man of Israel, “Because the king is near to me. And why this, it burns to you about this matter? Eating, have we eaten from the king? Or being taken, has it been taken for us?”
43 And a man of Israel answered a man of Judah, and he said, “Ten hands are to me in the king, and also in David, I more than you. So why have you despised me? Was not my word first, to bring back my king to me?”
But the word of a man of Judah was harsher than the word of a man of Israel.
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