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| 2 Samuel 19:1 |
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And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth
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| 2 Samuel 19:2 |
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And the victory that day was turned into mourning
unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved
for his son. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:3 |
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And the people gat them by stealth that day
into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:4 |
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But the king covered his face, and the king
cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! |
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| 2 Samuel 19:5 |
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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 concubines; |
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| 2 Samuel 19:6 |
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In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest
thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes
nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had
died this day, then it had pleased thee well. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:7 |
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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 befell thee from thy youth until now. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:8 |
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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
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| 2 Samuel 19:9 |
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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 he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out
of the land for Absalom. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:10 |
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And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead
in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:11 |
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And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar
the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last
to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to
the king, even to his house. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:12 |
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Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh:
wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:13 |
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And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone,
and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the
host before me continually in the room of Joab. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:14 |
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And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah,
even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return
thou, and all thy servants. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:15 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:16 |
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And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which
was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:17 |
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And 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 over Jordan before the king. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:18 |
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And there went over a ferry boat to carry over
the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera
fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; |
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| 2 Samuel 19:19 |
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And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute
iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely
the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take
it to his heart. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:20 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:21 |
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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? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:22 |
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And David said, What have I to do with you,
ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there
any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day
king over Israel? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:23 |
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Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt
not die. And the king sware unto him. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:24 |
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And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came 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. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:25 |
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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? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:26 |
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And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant
deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon,
and go to the king; because thy servant is lame. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:27 |
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And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord
the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good
in thine eyes. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:28 |
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For all of my father's house were but dead men
before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat
at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:29 |
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And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou
any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:30 |
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And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let
him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own
house. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:31 |
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And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim,
and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:32 |
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Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore
years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim;
for he was a very great man. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:33 |
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And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou
over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:34 |
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And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have
I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:35 |
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I am this day fourscore years old: and can
I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink?
can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then
should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:36 |
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Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan
with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:37 |
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again,
that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of
my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king;
and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:38 |
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And the king answered, Chimham shall go over
with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever
thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:39 |
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And all the people went over Jordan. And when
the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned
unto his own place. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:40 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:41 |
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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? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:42 |
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And all the men of Judah answered the men of
Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for
this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any
gift? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:43 |
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And 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 ye: 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. |
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