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For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."</p> <p class="hdg">David Restored as King</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>King David sent to Zadok and to 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 speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants."</p> <p class="hdg">David Returns to Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.</p> <p class="hdg">Shimei Pardoned</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." The king swore to him.</p> <p class="hdg">Mephibosheth Excused</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house."</p> <p class="hdg">David's Kindness to Barzillai</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Barzillai said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? <span class="reftext"><a href="/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, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.</p> <p class="hdg">Contention over the King</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>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 cost? Or has he given us any gift?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/19-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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