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Chapter 19 And it was told Joab,
Behold the king weepeth and mourneth for

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Absalom.

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And the victory that day was turned into
mourning unto all the people.

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For the people heard say that day how the
king was grieved for his son.

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And the people gapped them by stealth that
day into the city, as people being ashamed

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steal away when they flee in battle.

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But the king covered his face,
and the king cried with a loud voice...

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O my son Absalom!

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O Absalom, my son, my son!

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And Joab came into the house to the king
and said, Thou hast shamed this day the

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faces of all thy servants, which this day
have saved thy life, and the lives of thy

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sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives
of thy wives, and the lives of thy

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concubines, in that thou lovest thine
enemies, and hatest thy friends.

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For thou hast declared this day that thou
regardest neither princess nor servants.

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For this day I perceive that if Absalom
had lived, and all we had died this day,

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then it had pleased thee well.

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Now, therefore, arise.

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Go forth and speak comfortably unto thy
servants.

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For I swear by the Lord, if thou go not
forth, there will not tarry one with thee

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this night, and that will be worse unto
thee than all the evil that befell thee

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from thy youth until now.

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Then the king arose and sat in the gate.

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And they told unto all the people,
saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the

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gate.

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And all the people came before the king,
for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

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And all the people were at strife
throughout all the tribes of Israel,

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saying, The king saved us out of the hand
of our enemies, and he delivered us out of

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the hand of the Philistines.

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And now he has fled out of the land for
Absalom, and Absalom, whom we anointed

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over us, is dead in battle.

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Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of
bringing the king back?

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And king David sent to Zadok and to
Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto

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the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye
the last to bring the king back to his

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house?

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Seeing, the speech of all Israel is come
to the king, even to his house.

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Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my
flesh.

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Wherefore then are ye the last to bring
back the king?

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And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my
bone and of my flesh?

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God, do so to me.

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And more also, if thou be not captain of
the host before me, continually in the

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room of Judah.

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And he bowed the heart of all the men of
Judah, even as the heart of one man,

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so that they sent this word unto the king.

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Return thou and all thy servants.

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So the king returned, and came to Jordan,
and Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet

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the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

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And Shimei, the son of Gera, a Benjamite,
which was of Behurim, hasted and came down

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with the men of Judah to meet king David.

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And there were a thousand men of Benjamin
with him, and Ziba, the servant of the

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house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and
his twenty servants with him.

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And they went over Jordan before the king.

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And there went over a ferryboat to carry
over the king's household, and to do what

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he thought good.

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And Shimei, the son of Gera, fell down
before the king as he was come over

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Jordan, and said unto the king,
Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me,

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neither do thou remember that which thy
servant did perversely the day that my

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lord the king went out of Jerusalem,
that the king should take it to his heart.

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For thy servant doth know that I have
sinned.

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Therefore, behold, I am come the first
this day of all the house of Joseph to go

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down to meet my lord the king.

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But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah,
answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put

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to death for this, because he cursed the
lord's anointed?

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And David said, What have I to do with
you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should

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this day be adversaries unto me?

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Shall there any man be put to death this
day in Israel?

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For do not I know that I am this day king
over Israel?

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Therefore the king said unto Shimei,
Thou shalt not die.

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And the king swear unto him.

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And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul,
came down to meet the king, and had

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neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his
beard nor washed his clothes from the day

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the king departed until the day he came
again in peace.

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

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said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou
with me, Mephibosheth?

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And he answered, My lord, O king,
my servant deceived me.

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For thy servant said, I will saddle me and
ask that I may ride thereon and go to the

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king, because thy servant is lame.

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And he hath slandered thy servant unto my
lord the king.

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But my lord the king is as an angel of
God.

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Do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

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For all of my father's house were but dead
men before my lord the king.

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Yet didst thou set thy servant among them
that did eat at thine own table.

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What right therefore have I yet to cry any
more unto the king?

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And the king said unto him, Why speakest
thou any more of thy matters?

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I have said, thou and Ziba divide the
land.

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And Mephibosheth said unto the king,
Yea, let him take all.

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Forasmuch as my lord the king is come
again in peace unto his own house.

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And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from
Rogalam, and went over Jordan with the

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king to conduct him over Jordan.

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Now Barzillai was a very aged man,
even fourscore years old.

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And he had provided the king of sustenance
while he lay at Mahanaim, for he was a

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very great man.

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And the king said unto Barzillai,
Come thou over with me, and I will feed

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thee with me in Jerusalem.

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And Barzillai said unto the king,
How long have I to live that I should go

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up with the king unto Jerusalem?

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I am this day fourscore years old,
and can I discern between good and evil?

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Can thy servant taste what I eat or what I
drink?

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Can I hear any more the voice of singing
men and singing women?

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Wherefore then should thy servant be yet a
burden unto my lord the king?

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Thy servant will go a little way over
Jordan with the king, and why should the

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king recompense it me with such a reward?

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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back
again, that I may die in mine own city,

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and be buried by the grave of my father
and of my mother.

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But behold thy servant Kimham,
let him go over with my lord the king,

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and do to him what shall seem good unto
thee.

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And the king answered, Kimham shall go
over with me, and I will do to him that

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which shall seem good unto thee.

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And whatsoever thou shalt require of me,
that will I do for thee.

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And all the people went over Jordan.

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And when the king was come over,
the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed

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him, and he returned unto his own place.

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Then the king went on to Gilgal,
and Kimham went on with him, and all the

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people of Judah conducted the king,
and also half the people of Israel.

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And behold, all the men of Israel came to
the king, and said unto the king,

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Why have our brethren the men of Judah
stolen thee away, and have brought the

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king, and his household, and all David's
men with him over Jordan?

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And all the men of Judah answered the men
of Israel, Because the king is near of kin

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to us, wherefore then be ye angry for this
matter?

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Have we eaten at all of the king's cost,
or hath he given us any gift?

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And the men of Israel answered the men of
Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the

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king, and we have also more right in David
than ye.

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Why then did ye despise us, that our
advice should not be first had in bringing

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back our king?

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And the words of the men of Judah were
fiercer than the words of the men of

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Israel.

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This concludes Disc Number 18.