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Joab
Reproves David's Lament |
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| 2 Samuel 19:1 |
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Then it was told Joab, "Behold, the king is
weeping and mourns for Absalom." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:2 |
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The victory that day was turned to mourning
for all the people, for the people heard it said that day, "The king is grieved
for his son." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:3 |
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So the people went by stealth into the city
that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:4 |
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The king covered his face and cried out 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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Then Joab came into the house to the king and
said, "Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who today
have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your
wives, and the lives of your concubines, |
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| 2 Samuel 19:6 |
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by loving those who hate you, and by hating
those who love you. For you have shown today that princes and servants are nothing
to you; for I know this day that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead
today, then you would be pleased. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:7 |
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Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly
to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, surely not a
man will pass the night with you, and this will be worse for you than all the
evil that has come upon you from your youth until now." |
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David
Restored as King |
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| 2 Samuel 19:8 |
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So the king arose and sat in the gate. When
they told all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate," then
all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled, each to his tent. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:9 |
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All the people were quarreling throughout all
the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies
and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the
land from Absalom. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:10 |
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However, Absalom, whom we anointed over us,
has died in battle. Now then, why are you silent about bringing the king back?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:11 |
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Then King David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the
priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last
to bring the king back to his house, since the word of all Israel has come to
the king, even to his house? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:12 |
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You are my brothers; you are my bone and my
flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?' |
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| 2 Samuel 19:13 |
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Say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh?
May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before
me continually in place of Joab.'" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:14 |
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Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of
Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, "Return, you and
all your servants." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:15 |
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The king then returned and came as far as the
Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to bring the
king across the Jordan. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:16 |
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Then Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who
was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:17 |
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There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him,
with Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:18 |
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Then they kept crossing the ford to bring over
the king's household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son
of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:19 |
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So he said to the king, "Let not my lord consider
me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the
king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:20 |
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For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore
behold, I have come today, the first 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 said, "Should
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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David then said, "What have I to do with you,
O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? Should any
man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel
today?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:23 |
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The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die."
Thus the king swore to him. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:24 |
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Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down
to meet the king; and he had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache,
nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home
in peace. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:25 |
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It was when he came from Jerusalem to meet the
king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:26 |
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So he answered, "O my lord, the king, my servant
deceived me; for your servant said, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself that I
may ride on it and go with the king,' because your servant is lame. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:27 |
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Moreover, he has slandered your servant to
my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do
what is good in your sight. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:28 |
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For all my father's household was nothing but
dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate
at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should complain anymore to
the king?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:29 |
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So the king said to him, "Why do you still
speak of your affairs? I have decided, 'You and Ziba shall divide the land.'" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:30 |
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Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him even
take it all, since my lord the king has come safely to his own house." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:31 |
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Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from
Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.
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| 2 Samuel 19:32 |
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Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years
old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very
great man. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:33 |
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The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over
with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:34 |
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But Barzillai said to the king, "How long have
I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:35 |
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I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish
between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or
can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant
be an added burden to my lord the king? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:36 |
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Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan
with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward? |
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| 2 Samuel 19:37 |
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Please let your servant return, that I may die
in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. However, here is your
servant Chimham, let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what
is good in your sight." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:38 |
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The king answered, "Chimham shall cross over
with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you require
of me, I will do for you." |
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| 2 Samuel 19:39 |
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All the people crossed over the Jordan and the
king crossed too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned
to his place. |
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| 2 Samuel 19:40 |
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Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham
went on with him; and all the people of Judah and also half the people of Israel
accompanied the king. |
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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 to the king, "Why had our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away,
and brought the king and his household and all David's men with him over the Jordan?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:42 |
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Then all the men of Judah answered the men
of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry
about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense, or has anything
been taken for us?" |
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| 2 Samuel 19:43 |
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But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah
and said, "We have ten parts in the king, therefore we also have more claim on
David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not our advice
first to bring back our king?" Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher
than the words of the men of Israel. |
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