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He said to him, + Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. +001:004 David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. + He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many + of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan + his son are dead also. +001:005 David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul + and Jonathan his son are dead? +001:006 The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on + Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, + the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him. +001:007 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. + I answered, Here am I. +001:008 He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite. +001:009 He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; + for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet + whole in me. +001:010 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was + sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: + and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet + that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord. +001:011 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; + and likewise all the men who were with him: +001:012 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, + and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, + and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen + by the sword. +001:013 David said to the young man who told him, Whence are you? + He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite. +001:014 David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your + hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed? +001:015 David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, + and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died. +001:016 David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has + testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed. +001:017 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over + Jonathan his son +001:018 (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] + the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar): +001:019 Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! + How the mighty have fallen! +001:020 Don't tell it in Gath. Don't publish it in the streets + of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, + lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. +001:021 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, + neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of + the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not + anointed with oil. +001:022 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, + Jonathan's bow didn't turn back. Saul's sword didn't return empty. +001:023 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. + In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter + than eagles. They were stronger than lions. +001:024 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in + scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing. +001:025 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! + Jonathan is slain on your high places. +001:026 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have + been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, + passing the love of women. +001:027 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! +002:001 It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, + Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? Yahweh said + to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? + He said, To Hebron. +002:002 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam + the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +002:003 His men who were with him did David bring up, every man + with his household: and they lived in the cities of Hebron. +002:004 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king + over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, The men + of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul. +002:005 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said + to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this + kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. +002:006 Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you: + and I also will requite you this kindness, because you have + done this thing. +002:007 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be you valiant; + for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah + have anointed me king over them. +002:008 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken + Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; +002:009 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, + and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, + and over all Israel. +002:010 Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began + to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. + But the house of Judah followed David. +002:011 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah + was seven years and six months. +002:012 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son + of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. +002:013 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, + and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, + the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other + side of the pool. +002:014 Abner said to Joab, Please let the young men arise and play + before us. Joab said, Let them arise. +002:015 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, + and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the + servants of David. +002:016 They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] + his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: + therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, + which is in Gibeon. +002:017 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, + and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. +002:018 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: + and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. +002:019 Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn + to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. +002:020 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? + He answered, It is I. +002:021 Abner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, + and lay you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. + But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. +002:022 Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: + why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold + up my face to Joab your brother? +002:023 However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder + end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came + out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: + and it happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel + fell down and died stood still. +002:024 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went + down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies + before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. +002:025 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, + and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. +002:026 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? + Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? + How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return + from following their brothers?" +002:027 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then + in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed + everyone his brother. +002:028 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, + and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. +002:029 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; + and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, + and came to Mahanaim. +002:030 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered + all the people together, there lacked of David's servants + nineteen men and Asahel. +002:031 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, + [so that] three hundred sixty men died. +002:032 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, + which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, + and the day broke on them at Hebron. +003:001 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house + of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house + of Saul grew weaker and weaker. +003:002 To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, + of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; +003:003 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; + and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai + king of Geshur; +003:004 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, + Shephatiah the son of Abital; +003:005 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. + These were born to David in Hebron. +003:006 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul + and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong + in the house of Saul. +003:007 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter + of Aiah: and [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Why have you gone + in to my father's concubine? +003:008 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, + Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show + kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, + and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand + of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault + concerning this woman. +003:009 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn + to David, I don't do even so to him; +003:010 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set + up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan + even to Beersheba. +003:011 He could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him. +003:012 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is + the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and behold, + my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you. +003:013 He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing + I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, + except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come + to see my face. +003:014 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, + Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me + for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines. +003:015 Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from + Paltiel the son of Laish. +003:016 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed + her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: + and he returned. +003:017 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, + In times past you sought for David to be king over you: +003:018 now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand + of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand + of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. +003:019 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went + also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed + good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin. +003:020 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. + David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast. +003:021 Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel + to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, + and that you may reign over all that your soul desires. + David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. +003:022 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, + and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not + with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was + gone in peace. +003:023 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, + they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, + and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace. +003:024 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, + Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, + and he is quite gone? +003:025 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, + and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know + all that you do. +003:026 When Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers + after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: + but David didn't know it. +003:027 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into + the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck + him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood + of Asahel his brother. +003:028 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom + are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner + the son of Ner: +003:029 let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; + and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has + an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, + or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread. +003:030 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had + killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. +003:031 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, + Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn + before Abner. King David followed the bier. +003:032 They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, + and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept. +003:033 The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die + as a fool dies? +003:034 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. + As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell. + All the people wept again over him. +003:035 All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; + but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, + if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down. +003:036 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; + as whatever the king did pleased all the people. +003:037 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it + was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. +003:038 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there + a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? +003:039 I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men + the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward + the evil-doer according to his wickedness." +004:001 When [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, + his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. +004:002 [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, [had] two men who were captains of bands: + the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, + the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin + (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin: +004:003 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners + there until this day). +004:004 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. + He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan + out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: + and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, + and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. +004:005 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, + and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, + as he took his rest at noon. +004:006 They came there into the midst of the house, as though they + would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: + and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. +004:007 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed + in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, + and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way + of the Arabah all night. +004:008 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, + and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, + the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; + and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, + and of his seed. +004:009 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons + of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, + who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, +004:010 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have + brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, + which was the reward I gave him for his news. +004:011 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person + in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood + of your hand, and take you away from the earth? +004:012 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut + off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside + the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, + and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. +005:001 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, + and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. +005:002 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you + who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, + You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall + be prince over Israel. +005:003 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; + and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: + and they anointed David king over Israel. +005:004 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, + and he reigned forty years. +005:005 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; + and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all + Israel and Judah. +005:006 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, + the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, + Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not + come in here; thinking, David can't come in here. +005:007 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is + the city of David. +005:008 David said on that day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, + let him get up to the watercourse, and [strike] + the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. + Therefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; + he can't come into the house. +005:009 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. + David built round about from Millo and inward. +005:010 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, + was with him. +005:011 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, + and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. +005:012 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, + and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. +005:013 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, + after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons + and daughters born to David. +005:014 These are the names of those who were born to him + in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, +005:015 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +005:016 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. +005:017 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king + over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; + and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold. +005:018 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the + valley of Rephaim. +005:019 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against + the Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? + Yahweh said to David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver + the Philistines into your hand. +005:020 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, + Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters. + Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. +005:021 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away. +005:022 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves + in the valley of Rephaim. +005:023 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up: + make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against + the mulberry trees. +005:024 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops + of the mulberry trees, that then you shall bestir yourself; + for then is Yahweh gone out before you to strike the army + of the Philistines. +005:025 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines + from Geba until you come to Gezer. +006:001 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, + thirty thousand. +006:002 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, + from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, + which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies + who sits [above] the cherubim. +006:003 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it + out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: + and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. +006:004 They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, + with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. +006:005 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all + manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, + and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, + and with castanets, and with cymbals. +006:006 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put + forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; + for the oxen stumbled. +006:007 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck + him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. +006:008 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; + and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. +006:009 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall + the ark of Yahweh come to me? +006:010 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into + the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house + of Obed-Edom the Gittite. +006:011 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom + the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, + and all his house. +006:012 It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house + of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark + of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house + of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy. +006:013 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone + six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. +006:014 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was + girded with a linen ephod. +006:015 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh + with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. +006:016 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, + that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, + and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; + and she despised him in her heart. +006:017 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, + in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David + offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. +006:018 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering + and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name + of Yahweh of Armies. +006:019 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude + of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake + of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. + So all the people departed everyone to his house. +006:020 Then David returned to bless his household. + Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, + How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered + himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, + as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself! +006:021 David said to Michal, [It was] before Yahweh, who chose me + above your father, and above all his house, to appoint + me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel: + therefore will I play before Yahweh. +006:022 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my + own sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, + they shall honor me. +006:023 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. +007:001 It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh + had given him rest from all his enemies round about, +007:002 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell + in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. +007:003 Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; + for Yahweh is with you. +007:004 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came + to Nathan, saying, +007:005 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you + build me a house for me to dwell in? +007:006 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought + up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, + but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. +007:007 In all places in which I have walked with all the children + of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, + whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, + Why have you not built me a house of cedar? +007:008 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says + Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following + the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel; +007:009 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all + your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, + like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. +007:010 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, + that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; + neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, + as at the first, +007:011 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my + people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. + Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. +007:012 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, + I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out + of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. +007:013 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish + the throne of his kingdom forever. +007:014 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: + if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, + and with the stripes of the children of men; +007:015 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took + it from Saul, whom I put away before you. +007:016 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: + your throne shall be established forever. +007:017 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, + so did Nathan speak to David. +007:018 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; + and he said, Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, + that you have brought me thus far? +007:019 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have + spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; + and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh! +007:020 What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, + Lord Yahweh. +007:021 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you + worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. +007:022 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God: for there is none like you, + neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we + have heard with our ears. +007:023 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, + whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make + him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things + for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you + out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? +007:024 You did establish to yourself your people Israel to be a people + to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. +007:025 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning + your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, + and do as you have spoken. +007:026 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies + is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall + be established before you. +007:027 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed + to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: + therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this + prayer to you. +007:028 Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, + and you have promised this good thing to your servant: +007:029 now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, + that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, + have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your + servant be blessed forever. +008:001 After this it happened that David struck the Philistines, + and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother + city out of the hand of the Philistines. +008:002 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, + making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two + lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. + The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. +008:003 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, + as he went to recover his dominion at the River. +008:004 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty + thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, + but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. +008:005 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king + of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. +008:006 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the + Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. + Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +008:007 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants + of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +008:008 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David + took exceeding much brass. +008:009 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all + the army of Hadadezer, +008:010 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, + and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer + and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. + [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, + and vessels of brass: +008:011 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver + and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued; +008:012 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of + the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, + son of Rehob, king of Zobah. +008:013 David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians + in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men. +008:014 He put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, + and all the Edomites became servants to David. + Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +008:015 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice + and righteousness to all his people. +008:016 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat + the son of Ahilud was recorder; +008:017 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, + were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; +008:018 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites + and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. +009:001 David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, + that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? +009:002 There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, + and they called him to David; and the king said to him, + Are you Ziba? He said, Your servant is he. +009:003 The king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I + may show the kindness of God to him? Ziba said to the king, + Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet. +009:004 The king said to him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king, + Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, + in Lo Debar. +009:005 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir + the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. +009:006 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, + came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. + David said, Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your servant! +009:007 David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will + surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, + and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; + and you shall eat bread at my table continually." +009:008 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you + should look on such a dead dog as I am?" +009:009 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, + "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given + to your master's son. +009:010 You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, + and your servants; and you shall bring in [the fruits], + that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth + your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." + Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. +009:011 Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord + the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. + As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, + as one of the king's sons. +009:012 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. + All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. +009:013 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually + at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet. +010:001 It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, + and Hanun his son reigned in his place. +010:002 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, + as his father shown kindness to me. So David sent + by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. + David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. +010:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun + their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, + in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent + his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, + and to overthrow it? +010:004 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half + of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, + even to their buttocks, and sent them away. +010:005 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men + were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Jericho until + your beards be grown, and then return. +010:006 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious + to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians + of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, + and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men + of Tob twelve thousand men. +010:007 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army + of the mighty men. +010:008 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array + at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and + of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves + in the field. +010:009 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him + before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, + and put them in array against the Syrians: +010:010 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai + his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. +010:011 He said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall + help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you, + then I will come and help you. +010:012 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, + and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which + seems him good. +010:013 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle + against the Syrians: and they fled before him. +010:014 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, + they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. + Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, + and came to Jerusalem. +010:015 When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, + they gathered themselves together. +010:016 Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond + the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain + of the army of Hadarezer at their head. +010:017 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, + and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians + set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. +010:018 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians + [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, + and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that + he died there. +010:019 When all the kings who were servants to Hadarezer saw that they + were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, + and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children + of Ammon any more. +011:001 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go + out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, + and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, + and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. +011:002 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, + and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof + he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful + to look on. +011:003 David send and inquired after the woman. One said, + Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife + of Uriah the Hittite? +011:004 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, + and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); + and she returned to her house. +011:005 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, + I am with child. +011:006 David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. + Joab sent Uriah to David. +011:007 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, + and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. +011:008 David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. + Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed + him a mess [of food] from the king. +011:009 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all + the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house. +011:010 When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, + David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why + did you not go down to your house? +011:011 Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, + abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, + are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, + to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, + and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. +011:012 David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I + will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, + and the next day. +011:013 When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; + and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on + his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down + to his house. +011:014 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, + and sent it by the hand of Uriah. +011:015 He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront + of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may + be struck, and die. +011:016 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned + Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. +011:017 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: + and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; + and Uriah the Hittite died also. +011:018 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; +011:019 and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end + of telling all the things concerning the war to the king, +011:020 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, + 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you + know that they would shoot from the wall? +011:021 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman + cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died + at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, + 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" +011:022 So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab + had sent him for. +011:023 The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, + and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even + to the entrance of the gate. +011:024 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; + and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant + Uriah the Hittite is dead also. +011:025 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let + this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well + as another; make your battle more strong against the city, + and overthrow it: and encourage you him. +011:026 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, + she made lamentation for her husband. +011:027 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home + to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. + But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh. +012:001 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said + to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, + and the other poor. +012:002 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, +012:003 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, + which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, + and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his + own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter. +012:004 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his + own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring + man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, + and dressed it for the man who had come to him." +012:005 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said + to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is + worthy to die! +012:006 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, + and because he had no pity!" +012:007 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, + the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, + and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. +012:008 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into + your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; + and if that would have been too little, I would have added + to you many more such things. +012:009 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which + is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite + with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, + and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. +012:010 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, + because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah + the Hittite to be your wife.' +012:011 This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil + against you out of your own house; and I will take your + wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, + and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. +012:012 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, + and before the sun.'" +012:013 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." + Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. + You will not die. +012:014 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion + to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born + to you shall surely die." +012:015 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that + Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick. +012:016 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, + and went in, and lay all night on the earth. +012:017 The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, + to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did + he eat bread with them. +012:018 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. + The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; + for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, + we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: + how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the + child is dead! +012:019 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, + David perceived that the child was dead; and David said + to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead. +012:020 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, + and changed his clothing; and he came into the house + of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; + and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate. +012:021 Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have + done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; + but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread. +012:022 He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: + for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, + that the child may live? +012:023 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? + I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. +012:024 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay + with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. + Yahweh loved him; +012:025 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named + him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake. +012:026 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, + and took the royal city. +012:027 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought + against Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters. +012:028 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, + and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, + and it be called after my name. +012:029 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, + and fought against it, and took it. +012:030 He took the crown of their king from off his head; + and the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it + were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. + He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. +012:031 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them + under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes + of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: + and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. + David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +013:001 It happened after this, that Absalom the son of David had + a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son + of David loved her. +013:002 Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; + for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do + anything to her. +013:003 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son + of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. +013:004 He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day + to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, + my brother Absalom's sister. +013:005 Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign + yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, + tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread + to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, + and eat it from her hand. +013:006 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king + was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her + sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, + that I may eat from her hand. +013:007 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother + Amnon's house, and dress him food. +013:008 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. + She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, + and did bake the cakes. +013:009 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; + but he refused to eat. Amnon said, Have out all men from me. + They went out every man from him. +013:010 Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may + eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, + and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. +013:011 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, + and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister. +013:012 She answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such + thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly. +013:013 I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be + as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak + to the king; for he will not withhold me from you. +013:014 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger + than she, he forced her, and lay with her. +013:015 Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred + with which he hated her was greater than the love with which + he had loved her. Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone. +013:016 She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting + me forth is [worse] than the other that you did to me. + But he would not listen to her. +013:017 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, + Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. +013:018 She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such + robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. + Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. +013:019 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various + colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, + and went her way, crying aloud as she went. +013:020 Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother + been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: + he is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. + So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. +013:021 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry. +013:022 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom + hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. +013:023 It happened after two full years, that Absalom had + sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: + and Absalom invited all the king's sons. +013:024 Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant + has sheepshearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants + go with your servant. +013:025 The king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, + lest we be burdensome to you. He pressed him: + however he would not go, but blessed him. +013:026 Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. + The king said to him, Why should he go with you? +013:027 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's + sons go with him. +013:028 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, + when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, + Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I + commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. +013:029 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. + Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up + on his mule, and fled. +013:030 It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came + to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, + and there is not one of them left. +013:031 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; + and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn. +013:032 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let + my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men + the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment + of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced + his sister Tamar. +013:033 Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing + to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; + for Amnon only is dead. +013:034 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up + his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming + by way of the hillside behind him. +013:035 Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: + as your servant said, so it is. +013:036 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, + the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: + and the king also and all his servants wept very sore. +013:037 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, + king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day. +013:038 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. +013:039 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: + for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. +014:001 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart + was toward Absalom. +014:002 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, + and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on + mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, + but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead: +014:003 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. + So Joab put the words in her mouth. +014:004 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face + to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. +014:005 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth + I am a widow, and my husband is dead. +014:006 Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, + and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, + and killed him. +014:007 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, + and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we + may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, + and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal + which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor + remainder on the surface of the earth. +014:008 The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give + charge concerning you. +014:009 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, + the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king + and his throne be guiltless. +014:010 The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, + and he shall not touch you any more. +014:011 Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, + that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they + destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not + one hair of your son fall to the earth. +014:012 Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word + to my lord the king. He said, Say on. +014:013 The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against + the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is + as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home + again his banished one. +014:014 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, + which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take + away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be + an outcast from him. +014:015 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my + lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: + and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; + it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. +014:016 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand + of the man who would destroy me and my son together out + of the inheritance of God. +014:017 Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king + be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king + to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you. +014:018 Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything + from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord + the king now speak. +014:019 The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? + The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, + none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything + that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, + he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth + of your handmaid; +014:020 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done + this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom + of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth. +014:021 The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: + go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back. +014:022 Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, + and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows + that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that + the king has performed the request of his servant. +014:023 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. +014:024 The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him + not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, + and didn't see the king's face. +014:025 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom + for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown + of his head there was no blemish in him. +014:026 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end + that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); + he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, + after the king's weight. +014:027 To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, + whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face. +014:028 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see + the king's face. +014:029 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; + but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, + but he would not come. +014:030 Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is + near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. + Absalom's servants set the field on fire. +014:031 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said + to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire? +014:032 Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, + that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come + from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. + Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be + iniquity in me, let him kill me. +014:033 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called + for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face + to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom. +015:001 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot + and horses, and fifty men to run before him. +015:002 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: + and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should + come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, + and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is + of one of the tribes of Israel. +015:003 Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right; + but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you. +015:004 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, + that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, + and I would do him justice! +015:005 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, + he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. +015:006 In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king + for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. +015:007 It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said + to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have + vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. +015:008 For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, + saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, + then I will serve Yahweh. +015:009 The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. +015:010 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, + saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, + then you shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron. +015:011 With Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, who were invited, + and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything. +015:012 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, + from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering + the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people + increased continually with Absalom. +015:013 There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men + of Israel are after Absalom. +015:014 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, + and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: + make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring + down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword. +015:015 The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants + are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose. +015:016 The king went forth, and all his household after him. + The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. +015:017 The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they + stayed in Beth Merhak. +015:018 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, + and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men + who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. +015:019 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with + us? return, and abide with the king: for you are a foreigner, + and also an exile; [return] to your own place. +015:020 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go + up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? return you, + and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be with you. +015:021 Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my + lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king + shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will + your servant be. +015:022 David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. Ittai the Gittite + passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who + were with him. +015:023 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people + passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, + and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. +015:024 Behold, Zadok also [came], and all the Levites with him, + bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down + the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people + had done passing out of the city. +015:025 The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: + if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring + me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: +015:026 but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, + let him do to me as seems good to him. +015:027 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? + Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, + Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. +015:028 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word + comes from you to inform me." +015:029 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again + to Jerusalem: and they abode there. +015:030 David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept + as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: + and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, + and they went up, weeping as they went up. +015:031 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators + with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel + of Ahithophel into foolishness. +015:032 It happened that when David had come to the top [of the ascent], + where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came + to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head. +015:033 David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be + a burden to me: +015:034 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be + your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant + in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you + defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. +015:035 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? + therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear + out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and + Abiathar the priests. +015:036 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, + Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them + you shall send to me everything that you shall hear. +015:037 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom + came into Jerusalem. +016:001 When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, + Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple + of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, + and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, + and a bottle of wine. +016:002 The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? + Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; + and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; + and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink. +016:003 The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said + to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, + Today will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom + of my father. +016:004 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that pertains + to Mephibosheth is yours. Ziba said, I do obeisance; + let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king. +016:005 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of + the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. + He came out, and cursed still as he came. +016:006 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: + and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right + hand and on his left. +016:007 Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man + of blood, and base fellow: +016:008 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, + in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered + the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; and behold, + you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a + man of blood. +016:009 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, + "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? + Please let me go over and take off his head." +016:010 The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons + of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said + to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done so? +016:011 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, + my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: + how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, + and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. +016:012 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, + and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing + of me this day. +016:013 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along + on the hillside over against him, and cursed as he went, + and threw stones at him, and cast dust. +016:014 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; + and he refreshed himself there. +016:015 Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, + and Ahithophel with him. +016:016 It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come + to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, [Long] live the king, + [Long] live the king. +016:017 Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? + Why didn't you go with your friend? +016:018 Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, + and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, + and with him will I abide. +016:019 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence + of his son? as I have served in your father's presence, + so will I be in your presence. +016:020 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what + we shall do. +016:021 Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, + that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear + that you are abhorred of your father: then will the hands + of all who are with you be strong. +016:022 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; + and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight + of all Israel. +016:023 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, + was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all + the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. +017:001 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose + out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after + David this night: +017:002 and I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will + make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; + and I will strike the king only; +017:003 and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom + you seek is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall + be in peace. +017:004 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. +017:005 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let + us hear likewise what he says. +017:006 When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, + saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: + shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak up. +017:007 Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given + this time is not good. +017:008 Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, + that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, + as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father + is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. +017:009 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: + and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, + that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among + the people who follow Absalom. +017:010 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, + will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father + is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. +017:011 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, + from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea + for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. +017:012 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, + and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; + and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not + leave so much as one. +017:013 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel + bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, + until there not be one small stone found there. +017:014 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai + the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. + For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, + to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. +017:015 Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and + thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; + and thus and thus have I counseled. +017:016 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge + this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means + pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people + who are with him. +017:017 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female + servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: + for they might not be seen to come into the city. +017:018 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them + away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, + who had a well in his court; and they went down there. +017:019 The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, + and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known. +017:020 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, + Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, + They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought + and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. +017:021 It happened, after they had departed, that they came up + out of the well, and went and told king David; and they + said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water; + for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you. +017:022 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, + and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there + lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan. +017:023 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, + he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, + and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, + and was buried in the tomb of his father. +017:024 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, + he and all the men of Israel with him. +017:025 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. + Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra + the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, + sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother. +017:026 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. +017:027 It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi + the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, + and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai + the Gileadite of Rogelim, +017:028 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, + and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, + and lentils, and parched [pulse], +017:029 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, + for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: + for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, + in the wilderness. +018:001 David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains + of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. +018:002 David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand + of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son + of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand + of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will + surely go forth with you myself also. +018:003 But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, + they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, + will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; + therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us + out of the city. +018:004 The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. + The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out + by hundreds and by thousands. +018:005 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal + gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. + All the people heard when the king gave all the captains + charge concerning Absalom. +018:006 So the people went out into the field against Israel: + and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. +018:007 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants + of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day + of twenty thousand men. +018:008 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all + the country; and the forest devoured more people that day + than the sword devoured. +018:009 Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. + Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under + the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold + of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; + and the mule that was under him went on. +018:010 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw + Absalom hanging in an oak. +018:011 Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, + and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I + would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash. +018:012 The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand + [pieces of] silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth + my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king + charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none + touch the young man Absalom. +018:013 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there + is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would + have set yourself against [me]. +018:014 Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts + in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, + while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. +018:015 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and + struck Absalom, and killed him. +018:016 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing + after Israel; for Joab held back the people. +018:017 They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, + and raised over him a very great heap of stones: + and all Israel fled everyone to his tent. +018:018 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up + for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; + for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: + and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called + Absalom's monument, to this day. +018:019 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear + the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies. +018:020 Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this day, + but you shall bear news another day; but this day you shall + bear no news, because the king's son is dead. +018:021 Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. + The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. +018:022 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come + what may, Please let me also run after the Cushite. + Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will + have no reward for the news? +018:023 But come what may, [said he], I will run. He said to him, Run. + Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. +018:024 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman + went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up + his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. +018:025 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, + If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, + and drew near. +018:026 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called + to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. + The king said, He also brings news. +018:027 The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is + like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, + He is a good man, and comes with good news. +018:028 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. + He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, + and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up + the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king. +018:029 The king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? + Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, + even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don't know + what it was. +018:030 The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, + and stood still. +018:031 Behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, News for my + lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all + those who rose up against you. +018:032 The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young + man Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord + the king, and all who rise up against you to do you hurt, + be as that young man is. +018:033 The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, + and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, + my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, + my son, my son! +019:001 It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom. +019:002 The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; + for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his son. +019:003 The people got them by stealth that day into the city, + as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. +019:004 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, + my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son! +019:005 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; +019:006 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 this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived, + and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well. +019:007 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably + to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't + go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: + and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has + happened to you from your youth until now. +019:008 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all + the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: + and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled + every man to his tent. +019:009 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 is fled out of the land from Absalom. +019:010 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. + Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing + the king back? +019:011 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? seeing the speech of all + Israel is come to the king, [to bring him] to his house. +019:012 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: + why then are you the last to bring back the king? +019:013 Say you 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. +019:014 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] + one man; so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return you, + and all your servants. +019:015 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. +019:016 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, + hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. +019:017 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. +019:018 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 was come over the Jordan. +019:019 He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to 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. +019:020 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, + I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go + down to meet my lord the king. +019:021 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be + put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed? +019:022 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? +019:023 The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king + swore to him. +019:024 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; + and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, + nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until + the day he came home in peace. +019:025 It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, + that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth? +019:026 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. +019:027 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. +019:028 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? +019:029 The king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? + I say, You and Ziba divide the land. +019:030 Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, + because my lord the king is come in peace to his own house. +019:031 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went + over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. +019:032 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. +019:033 The king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I + will sustain you with me in Jerusalem. +019:034 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? +019:035 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? +019:036 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: + and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? +019:037 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. +019:038 The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, + and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: + and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you. +019:039 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: + and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned + to his own place. +019:040 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: + and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half + the people of Israel. +019:041 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? +019:042 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king + is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this + matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has + he given us any gift? +019:043 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 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. +020:001 There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, + the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, + and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance + in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel. +020:002 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. +020:003 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. +020:004 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together + within three days, and be here present. +020:005 So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed + longer than the set time which he had appointed him. +020:006 David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us + more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, + and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, + and escape out of our sight. +020:007 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. +020:008 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came + to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that + he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened + on his waist in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out. +020:009 Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? + Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. +020:010 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: + so he struck him therewith 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. +020:011 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. +020:012 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. +020:013 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went + on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. +020:014 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. +020:015 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. +020:016 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! + Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'" +020:017 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. +020:018 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in + old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: + and so they ended [the matter]. +020:019 I am of 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 Yahweh? +020:020 Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should + swallow up or destroy. +020:021 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. +020:022 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 trumpet, and they + were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. + Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. +020:023 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son + of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; +020:024 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; + and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; +020:025 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; +020:026 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David. +021:001 There was a famine in the days of David three years, + year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. + Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, + because he put to death the Gibeonites. +021:002 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); +021:003 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 Yahweh? +021:004 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, What you shall say, + that will I do for you. +021:005 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, +021:006 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang + them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. + The king said, I will give them. +021:007 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son + of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, + between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. +021:008 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: +021:009 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they + hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] + seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, + in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. +021:010 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; and she allowed neither + the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals + of the field by night. +021:011 It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine + of Saul, had done. +021:012 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; +021:013 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. +021:014 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. +021:015 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, + and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. + David grew faint; +021:016 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 girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David. +021:017 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. +021:018 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. +021:019 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. +021:020 There was again war at Gath, where 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. +021:021 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, + killed him. +021:022 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell + by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. +022:001 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day + that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, + and out of the hand of Saul: +022:002 and he said, Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, + even mine; +022:003 God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, + and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. + My savior, you save me from violence. +022:004 I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: + So shall I be saved from my enemies. +022:005 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness + made me afraid. +022:006 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. +022:007 In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. + He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry [came] into his ears. +022:008 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven + quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. +022:009 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. + Coals were kindled by it. +022:010 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness + was under his feet. +022:011 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings + of the wind. +022:012 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, + and thick clouds of the skies. +022:013 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. +022:014 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. +022:015 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them. +022:016 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of + the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast + of the breath of his nostrils. +022:017 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out + of many waters. +022:018 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, + for they were too mighty for me. +022:019 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh + was my support. +022:020 He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, + because he delighted in me. +022:021 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. + He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. +022:022 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly + departed from my God. +022:023 For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, + I did not depart from them. +022:024 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. +022:025 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, + According to my cleanness in his eyesight. +022:026 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. + With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. +022:027 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked + you will show yourself shrewd. +022:028 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on + the haughty, that you may bring them down. +022:029 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness. +022:030 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. +022:031 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. + He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. +022:032 For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God? +022:033 God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. +022:034 He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me on + my high places. +022:035 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass. +022:036 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. + Your gentleness has made me great. +022:037 You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. +022:038 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn + again until they were consumed. +022:039 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they + can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. +022:040 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. + You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. +022:041 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I + might cut off those who hate me. +022:042 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, + but he didn't answer them. +022:043 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. + I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. +022:044 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. + You have kept me to be the head of the nations. + A people whom I have not known will serve me. +022:045 The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they + hear of me, they will obey me. +022:046 The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out + of their close places. +022:047 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock + of my salvation, +022:048 even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down + peoples under me, +022:049 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up + above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from + the violent man. +022:050 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. + Will sing praises to your name. +022:051 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness + to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. +023:001 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, + the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God + of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: +023:002 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. +023:003 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, + one who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, +023:004 [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, + a morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springs] + out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain. +023:005 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made + with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, + and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, + although he doesn't make it grow. +023:006 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, + because they can't be taken with the hand, +023:007 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and + the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire + in [their] place. +023:008 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: + Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; + the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain + at one time. +023:009 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, + one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied + the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, + and the men of Israel were gone away. +023:010 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, + and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great + victory that day; and the people returned after him only + to take spoil. +023:011 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. + The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, + where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people + fled from the Philistines. +023:012 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, + and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory. +023:013 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David + in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop + of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. +023:014 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the + Philistines was then in Bethlehem. +023:015 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink + of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! +023:016 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, + and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was + by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: + but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh. +023:017 He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: + [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy + of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. + These things did the three mighty men. +023:018 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief + of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred + and killed them, and had a name among the three. +023:019 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made + their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three. +023:020 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, + who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel + of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst + of a pit in time of snow. +023:021 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had + a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, + and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed + him with his own spear. +023:022 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name + among the three mighty men. +023:023 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain + to the [first] three. David set him over his guard. +023:024 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son + of Dodo of Bethlehem, +023:025 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, +023:026 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, +023:027 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, +023:028 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, +023:029 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai + of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, +023:030 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. +023:031 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, +023:032 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, +023:033 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, +023:034 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam + the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, +023:035 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, +023:036 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, +023:037 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers + to Joab the son of Zeruiah, +023:038 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, +023:039 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all. +024:001 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved + David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah. +024:002 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, + Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, + from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the people, + that I may know the sum of the people. +024:003 Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people, + however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes + of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king + delight in this thing? +024:004 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, + and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains + of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number + the people of Israel. +024:005 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right + side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, + and to Jazer: +024:006 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; + and they came to Dan Jaan, and round about to Sidon, +024:007 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities + of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out + to the south of Judah, at Beersheba. +024:008 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, + they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. +024:009 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: + and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant + men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five + hundred thousand men. +024:010 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. + David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I + have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity + of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. +024:011 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came + to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, +024:012 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: + choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. +024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven + years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee + three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall + there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, + and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. +024:014 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall + now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; + and let me not fall into the hand of man. +024:015 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even + to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan + even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. +024:016 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem + to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said + to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; + now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing + floor of Araunah the Jebusite. +024:017 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, + and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; + but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand + be against me, and against my father's house. +024:018 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar + to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. +024:019 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. +024:020 Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming + on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself + before the king with his face to the ground. +024:021 Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? + David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar + to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people. +024:022 Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up + what seems good to him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offering, + and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen + for the wood: +024:023 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. 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