2 Samuel 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Joab Reproves David's Lament

2Sa 19:1It was told Jo'ab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Ab'salom."

2Sa 19:2So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son."

2Sa 19:3

2Sa 19:3And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

2Sa 19:4

2Sa 19:4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Ab'salom, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!"

2Sa 19:5

2Sa 19:5Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

2Sa 19:6

2Sa 19:6because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Ab'salom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

2Sa 19:7

2Sa 19:7Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now."

David Restored as King

2Sa 19:8

2Sa 19:8Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate"; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.

2Sa 19:9

2Sa 19:9And all the people were at strife 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; and now he has fled out of the land from Ab'salom.

2Sa 19:10

2Sa 19:10But Ab'salom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"

2Sa 19:11

2Sa 19:11And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?

2Sa 19:12

2Sa 19:12You are my kinsmen, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

2Sa 19:13

2Sa 19:13And say to Ama'sa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army henceforth in place of Jo'ab.'"

2Sa 19:14

2Sa 19:14And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants."

2Sa 19:15

2Sa 19:15So the king came back to the Jordan; and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.

2Sa 19:16

2Sa 19:16And Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahu'rim, made haste to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;

2Sa 19:17

2Sa 19:17and with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

2Sa 19:18

2Sa 19:18and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household, and to do his pleasure. And Shim'e-i the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,

2Sa 19:19

2Sa 19:19and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.

2Sa 19:20

2Sa 19:20For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."

2Sa 19:21

2Sa 19:21Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah answered, "Shall not Shim'e-i be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"

2Sa 19:22

2Sa 19:22But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall any one be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"

2Sa 19:23

2Sa 19:23And the king said to Shim'e-i, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath.

2Sa 19:24

2Sa 19:24And Mephib'osheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; 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 back in safety.

2Sa 19:25

2Sa 19:25And when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephib'osheth?"

2Sa 19:26

2Sa 19:26He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, 'Saddle an ass for me, that I may ride upon it and go with the king.' For your servant is lame.

2Sa 19:27

2Sa 19:27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

2Sa 19:28

2Sa 19:28For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king; but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?"

2Sa 19:29

2Sa 19:29And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."

2Sa 19:30

2Sa 19:30And Mephib'osheth said to the king, "Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home."

2Sa 19:31

2Sa 19:31Now Barzil'lai the Gileadite had come down from Ro'gelim; and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.

2Sa 19:32

2Sa 19:32Barzil'lai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahana'im; for he was a very wealthy man.

2Sa 19:33

2Sa 19:33And the king said to Barzil'lai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem."

2Sa 19:34

2Sa 19:34But Barzil'lai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

2Sa 19:35

2Sa 19:35I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

2Sa 19:36

2Sa 19:36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

2Sa 19:37

2Sa 19:37Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."

2Sa 19:38

2Sa 19:38And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you."

2Sa 19:39

2Sa 19:39Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzil'lai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.

2Sa 19:40

2Sa 19:40The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.

2Sa 19:41

2Sa 19:41Then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

2Sa 19:42

2Sa 19:42All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

2Sa 19:43

2Sa 19:43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

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2 Samuel 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Joab Reproves David's Lament

David Restored as King

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