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Hushai's counsel accepted.

CHAP. XVII, XVIII.

Ahithophel hangeth himself 19 And again, whom should I serve? should I saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the not serve in the presence of his son? as I have wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king served in thy father's presence, so will I be in be swallowed up, and all the people that are with thy presence.

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Death of Absalom.

II. SAMUEL.

David heareth the tidings. 5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishail his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near. and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with 26 And the watchman saw another man runthe young man, even with Absalom. And all ning: and the watchman called unto the porter, the people heard when the king gave all the and said, Behold, another man running alone. captains charge concerning Absalom. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. 61 So the people went out into the field against 27 And the watchman said, Methinketh the runIsrael: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; ning of the foremost is like the running of Ahi7 Where the people of Israel were slain before maaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He the servants of David, and there was there a is a good man, and cometh with good tidings. great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, 8 For the battle was there scattered over the All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon face of all the country and the wood devoured his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the inore people that day than the sword devoured. LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men 9 ¶ And Absalom inet the servants of David. that lifted up their hand against my lord the king. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule 29 And the king said, Is the young man Absawent under the thick boughs of a great oak, and lom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab his head caught hold of the oak, and he was sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I taken up between the heaven and the earth; and saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was. the mule that was under him went away. 30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside and 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still. said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 31 And behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, HI And Joab said unto the man that told him, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath And behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou avenged thee this day of all them that rose up not smite him there to the ground? and I would against thee.

have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. 32 And the king said untoCushi, Is the young man 12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enereceive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, mies of my lord the king, and all that rise against get would I not put forth my hand against the thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is. king's son: for in our hearing the king charged 33 1 And the king was much moved, and went thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and none touch the young man Absalom. as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom!

13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died against mine own life: for there is no matter hid for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.

CHAP. XIX.

David mourneth for Absalom.

14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with AND it was told Joab, Behold, the king weep

and mourneth for Absalom.

thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while 2 And the victory that day was turned into he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. mourning unto all the people: for the people 15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour heard say that day how the king was grieved for compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew his son. him.

3 And the people gat them by stealth that day 16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people into the city, as people being ashamed steal returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab away when they flee in battle. held back the people.

17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom! Ő Absalom, my son, my son!

5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy

this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

18 ¶ Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called concubines; the pillar after his own name: and it is called 6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest unto this day, Absalom's Place. thy friends: for thou hast declared this day, that 19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies. 20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead. 21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. 22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray e, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

23 Lut howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Alimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befel thee from thy youth until now.

8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and be deli 24 And David sat between the two gates: and vered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in

10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? 11 T And king David sent to Zadok and to Abi

Shimei is pardoned.

CHAP. XX.

Of Barzillai and Chimham athar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring fourscore years old and he had provided the the king back to his house? seeing the speech of king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: all Israel is come to the king, even to his house. for he was a very great man.

12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and 33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring over with me, and I will feed thee with me iu back the king? Jerusalem.

13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my 34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and have I to live, that I should go up with the king more also, if thou be not captain of the host be- unto Jerusalem ? fore me continually in the room of Joab.

35 I am this day fourscore years old and cas 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of I discern between good and evil? can thy ser Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that vant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, hear any more the voice of singing-men and sing and all thy servants. ing-women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? 36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down 37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, with the men of Judah to meet king David. that I may die in mine own city, and be buried 17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin by the grave of my father and of my mother: with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of but behold thy servant Chimham; let him go Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants over with my lord the king; and do to him what with him; and they went over Jordan before the shall seem good unto thee.

king.

38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go

18 And there went over a ferry-boat to carry over with me, and I will do to him that which over the king's household, and to do what he shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell shalt require of me, that will I do for thee. down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; 39 And all the people went over Jordan. And 19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord im- when the king was come over, the king kissed pute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remem- Barzillai, and blessed him: and he returned ber that which thy servant did perversely the unto his own place. day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?

40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

41 T And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan ? 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, 42 And all the men of Judah answered the ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin adversaries unto me? shall there any man be to us wherefore then be ye angry for this matput to death this day in Israel? for do not Iter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or know that I am this day king over Israel? hath he given us any gift?

23 Therefore the king said unto Shimel, Thou 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of shalt not die: and the king sware unto him. Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, 24 ¶ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came and we have also more right in David than ye: down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said

unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me,

Mephibosheth ?

why then did ye despise us, that our advice
should not be first had in bringing back our king?
And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer
than the words of the men of Israel.
CHAP. XX.

Sheba rebelleth against David.

AND there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of 26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my ser- Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, vant deceived me; for thy servant said, I will and said, We have no part in David, neither saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every go to the king; because thy servant is lame. man to his tents, O Israel. 27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my 2 So every man of Israel went up from after lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from 28 For all of my father's house were but dead Jordan even to Jerusalem. men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in 29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest unto them. So they were shut up unto the day thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou of their death, living in widowhood. and Ziba divide the land.

4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me 30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, the men of Judah within three days, and be thou let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king here present.

is come again in peace unto his own house. 5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: 31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down but he tarried longer than the set time which he from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the had appointed him. king, to conduct him over Jordan.

¤ And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba

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Amasa slain by Joab.

II. SAMUEL

David buries Saul's bores

the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Ab- 26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler salom: take thou thy lord's servants and pursue about David. after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

THEN

CHAP. XXI.

Seven of Saul's sons hanged, &c. 7 And there went out after him Joab's men, HEN there was a famine in the days of Da and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all! vid three years, year after year; and David the mighty men and they went out of Jerusa- inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, lem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because 8 When they were at the great stone which is he slew the Gibeonites. in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said garment that he had put on was girded unto him, unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Am his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went orites; and the children of Israel had sworn untǝ forth it fell out. them and Saul sought to slay them, in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shali 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that make the atonement, that ye may bless the inwas in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith heritance of the LORD?

in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will ground, and struck him not again; and he died. have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. Sheba the son of Bichri. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and 14 ¶ And he went through all the tribes of Is-Jonathan the son of Saul. rael unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the the Berites: and they were gathered together, daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Arand went also after him.

15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

16 ¶ Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

moni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley-harvest. 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thy handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. 18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughcounsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. [ter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done. 19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

121 And David went and took the bones of Saut and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. 21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount 13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they lifted up his hand against the king, even against gathered the bones of them that were hanged. David deliver him only, and I will depart from 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall. in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they per Then the woman went unto all the people formed all that the king commanded. And after. In her wisdom. And they cut off the head of that God was entreated for the land. Sheba the son of Bichri and cast it out to Joab. 15 Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from with Israel; and David went down, and his serthe city, every man to his tent. And Joab re-vants with him, and fought against the Philisturned to Jerusalem unto the king.

23 ¶ Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder: 25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

tines: and David waxed faint.

16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying,

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