2 Samuel 19 NKJV

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For the people heard it said that day, “The king is grieved for his son.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the people <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the king covered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>in that you love your enemies and hate your friends. For you have declared today that you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>regard neither princes nor servants; for today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you well. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now therefore, arise, go out and speak <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>comfort to your servants. For I swear by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, “There is the king, sitting in the gate.” So all the people came before the king.</span></p><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-8">For everyone of Israel had fled to his tent.</span></p> <h3> David Returns to Jerusalem</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-9"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Absalom. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now therefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So 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 words of all Israel have come to the king, to his <i>very</i> house? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You <i>are</i> my brethren, you <i>are</i> my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And say to Amasa, ‘<i>Are</i> you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>continually in place of Joab.’ ” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah, just as <i>the heart of</i> one man, so that they sent <i>this word</i> to the king: “Return, you and all your servants!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the king returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to escort the king across the Jordan. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who <i>was</i> from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><i>There were</i> 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 the Jordan before the king. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then a ferryboat went across to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good.</span></p><h3><span class="text 2Sam-19-18">David’s Mercy to Shimei</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-18">Now Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he said to the king, “Do not let my lord <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>impute iniquity to me, or remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my lord the king left Jerusalem, that the king should take <i>it</i> to heart. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. Therefore here I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s anointed?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For do I not know that today I <i>am</i> king over Israel?” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore to him.</span></p> <h3> David and Mephibosheth Meet</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-24"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he returned in peace. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So it was, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king,’ because your servant <i>is</i> lame. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king <i>is</i> like the angel of God. Therefore do <i>what is</i> good in your eyes. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>cry out anymore to the king?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So the king said to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Ziba divide the land.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Mephibosheth said to the king, “Rather, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house.”</span></p> <h3> David’s Kindness to Barzillai</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-31"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and went across the Jordan with the king, to escort him across the Jordan. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he <i>was</i> a very rich man. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the king said to Barzillai, “Come across with me, and I will provide for you while you are with me in Jerusalem.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I <i>am</i> today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me <i>with</i> such a reward? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And the king answered, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you. Now whatever you request of me, I will do for you.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Then all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.</span></p> <h3> The Quarrel About the King</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-40"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Now the king went on to Gilgal, and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>Chimham went on with him. And all the people of Judah escorted the king, and also half the people of Israel. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Just then 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, his household, and all David’s men with him across the Jordan?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>So all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king <i>is</i> a close relative of ours. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we ever eaten at the king’s <i>expense?</i> Or has he given us any gift?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/19-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more <i>right</i> to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?”</span></p><p><span class="text 2Sam-19-43">Yet the words of the men of Judah were <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-8515a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:3">2 Samuel 19:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>went by stealth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8518b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:6">2 Samuel 19:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>have no respect for</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8519c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:7">2 Samuel 19:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>to the heart of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8525d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:13">2 Samuel 19:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>permanently</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8531e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:19">2 Samuel 19:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>charge me with iniquity</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8540f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:28">2 Samuel 19:28</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>complain</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8552g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:40">2 Samuel 19:40</span> <span class='footnote-text'>MT <i>Chimhan</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-8555h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Samuel 19:43">2 Samuel 19:43</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>harsher</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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