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The Second Book of Samuel, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for
Absalom." {19:2} The victory that day was turned into mourning to all
the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves
for his son."
{19:3} The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are
ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. {19:4} The king covered
his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom,
Absalom, my son, my son!"
{19:5} Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have
shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who 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 those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you
have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you.
For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died
this day, then it would have pleased you well. {19:7} Now therefore
arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the
LORD, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night.
That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you
from your youth until now."
{19:8} Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all
the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the
people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his
tent. {19:9} All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes
of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our
enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now
he has fled out of the land from Absalom. {19:10} Absalom, whom we
anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak
a word of bringing the king back?"
{19:11} 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 the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel
has come to the king, to return him to his house. {19:12} You are my
brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to
bring back the king?' {19:13} Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my
flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the
army before me continually in the room of Joab.'" {19:14} He bowed the
heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to
the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants."
{19:15} So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
{19:16} Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim,
hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
{19:17} 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 through the Jordan in the presence of
the king. {19:18} A ferry boat went to bring over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell
down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan. {19:19} He
said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor
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 knows that I have sinned. Therefore
behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to
go down to meet my lord the king."
{19:21} But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not
be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
{19:22} David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of
Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there
any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am
this day king over Israel?" {19:23} The king said to Shimei, "You
shall not die." The king swore to him.
{19:24} Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and
he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his
clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in
peace. {19:25} It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the
king, that the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me,
Mephibosheth?"
{19:26} He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For
your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon,
and go with the king; because your servant is lame. {19:27} He has
slandered your servant to 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 my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet
you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right
therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"
{19:29} The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your
matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."
{19:30} Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all,
because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house." {19:31}
Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the
Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. {19:32} Now
Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had
provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was
a very great man. {19:33} The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with
me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem." {19:34} Barzillai
said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that
I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? {19:35} I am this day
eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant
taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of
singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a
burden to my lord the king? {19:36} Your servant would but just go
over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such
a reward? {19:37} Please let your servant turn back again, that I may
die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But
behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king;
and do to him what shall seem good to you."
{19:38} The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I
will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require
of me, that I will do for you."
{19:39} All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over.
Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to
his own place. {19:40} So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham
went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and
also half the people of Israel. {19:41} Behold, all the men of Israel
came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men
of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household,
over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"
{19:42} 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 cost? Or has he given us
any gift?"
{19:43} The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We
have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than
you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first
had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were
fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
{20:1} There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was
Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the [1>]shofar[<1],
and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in
the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!"
{20:2} So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and
followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with
their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. {20:3} David came to
his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his
concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in
custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them.
So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
{20:4} Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah
together within three days, and be here present."
{20:5} So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he
stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him. {20:6}
David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more
harm than Absalom did. Take your lord's servants, and pursue after
him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our
sight."
{20:7} There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and
the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. {20:8} When they
were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them.
Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it
was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he
went forth it fell out. {20:9} Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with
you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to
kiss him. {20:10} But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in
Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his
bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab
and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. {20:11}
There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, "He who favors
Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"
{20:12} Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the
highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried
Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him,
when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. {20:13} When he
was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to
pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. {20:14} He went through all the
tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites: and
they were gathered together, and went also after him. {20:15} They
came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound
against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people
who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. {20:16} Then a
wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab,
'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'" {20:17} He came near to
her; and the woman said, "Are you Joab?"
He answered, "I am."
Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your handmaid."
He answered, "I do hear."
{20:18} Then she spoke, saying, "They were used to say in old times,
'They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;' and so they settled it.
{20:19} I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You
seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up
the inheritance of the LORD?"
{20:20} Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy. {20:21} The matter is not so. But a man of the
hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted
up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only,
and I will depart from the city."
The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you
over the wall."
{20:22} Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They
cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab.
He blew the [2>]shofar[<2], and they were dispersed from the city,
every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. {20:23}
Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; {20:24} and
Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was the recorder; {20:25} and Sheva was scribe; and
Zadok and Abiathar were priests; {20:26} and also Ira the Jairite was
chief minister to David.
{21:1} There was a famine in the days of David three years, year
after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, "It
is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the
Gibeonites."
{21:2} The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul
sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
{21:3} and David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And
with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance
of the LORD?"
{21:4} The Gibeonites said to him, "It is no matter of silver or
gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put
any man to death in Israel."
He said, "Whatever you say, that will I do for you."
{21:5} They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who
devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any
of the borders of Israel, {21:6} let seven men of his sons be
delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of
Saul, the chosen of the LORD."
The king said, "I will give them."
{21:7} But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul. {21:8} But the king took the two
sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom
she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. {21:9} He
delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them
in the mountain before the LORD, and all seven of them fell together.
They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at
the beginning of barley harvest. {21:10} Rizpah the daughter of Aiah
took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning
of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed
neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals
of the field by night. {21:11} It was told David what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. {21:12} David went
and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the
men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth
Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the
Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; {21:13} and he brought up from
there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they
gathered the bones of those who were hanged. {21:14} They buried the
bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela,
in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king
commanded. After that God was entreated for the land. {21:15} The
Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his
servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew
faint; {21:16} and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the
weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he
being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David. {21:17} But
Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and
killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go
no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of
Israel."
{21:18} It came to pass after this, that there was again war with
the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who
was of the sons of the giant. {21:19} There was again war with the
Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the
Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose
spear was like a weaver's beam. {21:20} There was again war at Gath,
where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six
fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he
also was born to the giant. {21:21} When he defied Israel, Jonathan
the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him. {21:22} These four
were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David,
and by the hand of his servants.
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Footnotes:
[1] {20:1} or, trumpet
[2] {20:22} or, trumpet
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