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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Samuel 16 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Samuel 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/15.htm" title="2 Samuel 15">◄</a> 2 Samuel 16 <a href="../2_samuel/17.htm" title="2 Samuel 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_samuel/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">David and Ziba</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“What are these for?” the king asked Ziba.</p><p class="reg">Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s people to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat. The wine is for those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“And where is Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson?” the king asked him.</p><p class="reg">“He stayed in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied. “He said, ‘Today I will get back the kingdom of my grandfather Saul.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“In that case,” the king told Ziba, “I give you everything Mephibosheth owns.”</p><p class="reg">“I bow before you,” Ziba replied. “May I always be pleasing to you, my lord the king.”</p><p class="hdg">Shimei Curses David</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out of the village cursing them. It was Shimei son of Gera, from the same clan as Saul’s family. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He threw stones at the king and the king’s officers and all the mighty warriors who surrounded him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“The LORD is paying you back for all the bloodshed in Saul’s clan. You stole his throne, and now the LORD has given it to your son Absalom. At last you will taste some of your own medicine, for you are a murderer!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?” Abishai son of Zeruiah demanded. “Let me go over and cut off his head!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“No!” the king said. “Who asked your opinion, you sons of Zeruiah! If the LORD has told him to curse me, who are you to stop him?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn’t this relative of Saul<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to do it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And perhaps the LORD will see that I am being wronged<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> and will bless me because of these curses today.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So David and his men continued down the road, and Shimei kept pace with them on a nearby hillside, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at David.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The king and all who were with him grew weary along the way, so they rested when they reached the Jordan River.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="hdg">Ahithophel Advises Absalom</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Absalom and all the army of Israel arrived at Jerusalem, accompanied by Ahithophel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When David’s friend Hushai the Arkite arrived, he went immediately to see Absalom. “Long live the king!” he exclaimed. “Long live the king!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him. “Why aren’t you with him?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“I’m here because I belong to the man who is chosen by the LORD and by all the men of Israel,” Hushai replied. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“And anyway, why shouldn’t I serve you? Just as I was your father’s adviser, now I will be your adviser!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Absalom turned to Ahithophel and asked him, “What should I do next?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Ahithophel told him, “Go and sleep with your father’s concubines, for he has left them here to look after the palace. Then all Israel will know that you have insulted your father beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will throw their support to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and had sex with his father’s concubines.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Absalom followed Ahithophel’s advice, just as David had done. For every word Ahithophel spoke seemed as wise as though it had come directly from the mouth of God.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="it">Mephibosheth</span><span class="ft"> is another name for Merib-baal.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">this Benjaminite.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:12 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">see my iniquity.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:14 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version (see also 17:16); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">when they reached their destination.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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