Text of 2 Samuel - 024:025

024:025 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated
for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:024

024:024 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it
of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto
the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David
bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
silver.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:023

024:023 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king.
And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:022

024:022 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and
offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for
burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:021

024:021 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to
build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed
from the people.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:020

024:020 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before
the king on his face upon the ground.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:019

024:019 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:018

024:018 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear
an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
Jebusite.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:017

024:017 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote
the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done
wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine
hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's
house.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:016

024:016 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the
angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine
hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of
Araunah the Jebusite.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:015

024:015 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning
even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from
Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:014

024:014 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall
now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and
let me not fall into the hand of man.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:013

024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou
flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue
thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now
advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent
me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:012

024:012 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three
things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:011

024:011 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD
came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:010

024:010 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the
people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in
that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away
the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:009

024:009 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant
men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
hundred thousand men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:008

024:008 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:007

024:007 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the
south of Judah, even to Beersheba.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:006

024:006 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:005

024:005 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the
right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of
Gad, and toward Jazer:

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:004

024:004 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of
the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:003

024:003 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the
people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the
eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:002

024:002 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was
with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
the number of the people.

Text of 2 Samuel - 024:001

024:001 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and
Judah.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:039

023:039 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:038

023:038 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:037

023:037 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to
Joab the son of Zeruiah,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:036

023:036 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:035

023:035 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:034

023:034 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:033

023:033 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:032

023:032 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:031

023:031 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:030

023:030 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:029

023:029 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of
Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:028

023:028 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:027

023:027 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:026

023:026 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:025

023:025 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:024

023:024 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:023

023:023 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to
the first three. And David set him over his guard.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:022

023:022 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
among three mighty men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:021

023:021 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and
plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him
with his own spear.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:020

023:020 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of
Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of
Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit
in time of snow:

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:019

023:019 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:018

023:018 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was
chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three
hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:017

023:017 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this:
is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of
their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did
these three mighty men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:016

023:016 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David:
nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out
unto the LORD.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:015

023:015 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:014

023:014 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:013

023:013 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of
the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:012

023:012 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:011

023:011 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And
the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was
a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from
the Philistines.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:010

023:010 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a
great victory that day; and the people returned after him only
to spoil.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:009

023:009 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of
the three mighty men with David, when they defied the
Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and
the men of Israel were gone away:

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:008

023:008 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the
same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight
hundred, whom he slew at one time.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:007

023:007 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and
the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with
fire in the same place.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:006

023:006 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust
away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:005

023:005 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me
an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for
this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make
it not to grow.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:004

023:004 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun
riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass
springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:003

023:003 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He
that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:002

023:002 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue.

Text of 2 Samuel - 023:001

023:001 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of
the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:051

022:051 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy
to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:050

022:050 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:049

022:049 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou
hast delivered me from the violent man.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:048

022:048 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people
under me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:047

022:047 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
God of the rock of my salvation.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:046

022:046 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of
their close places.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:045

022:045 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:044

022:044 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I
knew not shall serve me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:043

022:043 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them
abroad.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:042

022:042 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD,
but he answered them not.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:041

022:041 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I
might destroy them that hate me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:040

022:040 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that
rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:039

022:039 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could
not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:038

022:038 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned
not again until I had consumed them.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:037

022:037 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not
slip.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:036

022:036 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:035

022:035 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:034

022:034 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my
high places.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:033

022:033 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:032

022:032 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our
God?

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:031

022:031 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:030

022:030 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I
leaped over a wall.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:029

022:029 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
darkness.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:028

022:028 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are
upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:027

022:027 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:026

022:026 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with
the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:025

022:025 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:024

022:024 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
iniquity.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:023

022:023 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes,
I did not depart from them.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:022

022:022 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:021

022:021 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:020

022:020 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
because he delighted in me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:019

022:019 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:018

022:018 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated
me: for they were too strong for me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:017

022:017 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:016

022:016 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the
blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:015

022:015 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:014

022:014 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
voice.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:013

022:013 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:012

022:012 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and thick clouds of the skies.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:011

022:011 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon
the wings of the wind.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:010

022:010 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was
under his feet.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:009

022:009 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:008

022:008 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:007

022:007 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God:
and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did
enter into his ears.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:006

022:006 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death
prevented me;

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:005

022:005 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid;

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:004

022:004 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall
I be saved from mine enemies.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:003

022:003 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and
the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my
saviour; thou savest me from violence.

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:002

022:002 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer;

Text of 2 Samuel - 022:001

022:001 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the
day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:022

021:022 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the
hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:021

021:021 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the
brother of David slew him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:020

021:020 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great
stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot
six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to
the giant.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:019

021:019 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the
brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
like a weaver's beam.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:018

021:018 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle
with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite
slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:017

021:017 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto
him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that
thou quench not the light of Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:016

021:016 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight
of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in
weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have
slain David.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:015

021:015 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against
the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:014

021:014 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his
father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And
after that God was intreated for the land.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:013

021:013 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that
were hanged.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:012

021:012 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had
stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines
had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa:

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:011

021:011 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:010

021:010 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until
water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither
the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of
the field by night.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:009

021:009 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and
they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell
all seven together, and were put to death in the days of
harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley
harvest.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:008

021:008 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five
sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for
Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:007

021:007 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them,
between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:006

021:006 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will
hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD
did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:005

021:005 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that
devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining
in any of the coasts of Israel,

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:004

021:004 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor
gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill
any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I
do for you.

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:003

021:003 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for
you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may
bless the inheritance of the LORD?

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:002

021:002 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now
the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the
remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn
unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah.)

Text of 2 Samuel - 021:001

021:001 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD
answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he
slew the Gibeonites.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:026

020:026 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:025

020:025 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:024

020:024 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud was recorder:

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:023

020:023 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:022

020:022 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And
they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it
out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the
city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem
unto the king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:021

020:021 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the
son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the
king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart
from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head
shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:020

020:020 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that
I should swallow up or destroy.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:019

020:019 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel:
thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why
wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:018

020:018 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they
ended the matter.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:017

020:017 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou
Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear
the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:016

020:016 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I
pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with
thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:015

020:015 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and
they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the
trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the
wall, to throw it down.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:014

020:014 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to
Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered
together, and went also after him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:013

020:013 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on
after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:012

020:012 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And
when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed
Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon
him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:011

020:011 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that
favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after
Joab.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:010

020:010 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:
so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his
bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died.
So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of
Bichri.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:009

020:009 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And
Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:008

020:008 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was
girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened
upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it
fell out.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:007

020:007 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites,
and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out
of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:006

020:006 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri
do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's
servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities,
and escape us.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:005

020:005 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried
longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:004

020:004 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah
within three days, and be thou here present.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:003

020:003 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took
the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the
house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in
unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death,
living in widowhood.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:002

020:002 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed
Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their
king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 020:001

020:001 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet,
and said, We have no part in David, neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O
Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:043

019:043 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We
have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in
David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice
should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the
words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the
men of Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:042

019:042 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because
the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for
this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath
he given us any gift?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:041

019:041 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said
unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen
thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and
all David's men with him, over Jordan?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:040

019:040 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him:
and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half
the people of Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:039

019:039 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was
come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he
returned unto his own place.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:038

019:038 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I
will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and
whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:037

019:037 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die
in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and
of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto
thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:036

019:036 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king:
and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:035

019:035 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between
good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I
drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and
singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a
burden unto my lord the king?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:034

019:034 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live,
that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:033

019:033 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and
I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:032

019:032 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old:
and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at
Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:031

019:031 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:030

019:030 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all,
forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his
own house.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:029

019:029 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy
matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:028

019:028 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord
the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did
eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry
any more unto the king?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:027

019:027 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but
my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is
good in thine eyes.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:026

019:026 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for
thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride
thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:025

019:025 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the
king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou
with me, Mephibosheth?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:024

019:024 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king,
and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor
washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the
day he came again in peace.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:023

019:023 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And
the king sware unto him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:022

019:022 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall
there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I
know that I am this day king over Israel?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:021

019:021 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not
Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's
anointed?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:020

019:020 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of
Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:019

019:019 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto
me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did
perversely the day that my lord the king went out of
Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:018

019:018 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son
of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:017

019:017 And 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 over Jordan before the
king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:016

019:016 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim,
hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:015

019:015 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over
Jordan.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:014

019:014 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king,
Return thou, and all thy servants.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:013

019:013 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh?
God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the
host before me continually in the room of Joab.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:012

019:012 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore
then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:011

019:011 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the
last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of
all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:010

019:010 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:009

019:009 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our
enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the
Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:008

019:008 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto
all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate.
And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled
every man to his tent.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:007

019:007 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy
servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there
will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be
worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy
youth until now.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:006

019:006 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For
thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither
princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom
had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased
thee well.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:005

019:005 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast
shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day
have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy
daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy
concubines;

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:004

019:004 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:003

019:003 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as
people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:002

019:002 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
people: for the people heard say that day how the king was
grieved for his son.

Text of 2 Samuel - 019:001

019:001 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth
for Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:033

018:033 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over
the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son
Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for
thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:032

018:032 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe?
And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all
that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man
is.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:031

018:031 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the
king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that
rose up against thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:030

018:030 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he
turned aside, and stood still.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:029

018:029 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz
answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy
servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:028

018:028 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And
he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and
said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the
men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:027

018:027 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king
said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:026

018:026 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman
called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running
alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:025

018:025 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said,
If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came
apace, and drew near.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:024

018:024 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up
to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:023

018:023 But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run.
Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:022

018:022 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But
howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab
said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast
no tidings ready?

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:021

018:021 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen.
And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:020

018:020 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day,
but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou
shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:019

018:019 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear
the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his
enemies.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:018

018:018 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for
himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I
have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the
pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day,
Absalom's place.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:017

018:017 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all
Israel fled every one to his tent.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:016

018:016 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from
pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:015

018:015 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and
smote Absalom, and slew him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:014

018:014 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took
three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of
Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:013

018:013 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own
life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou
thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:012

018:012 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand
shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine
hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king
charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none
touch the young man Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:011

018:011 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou
sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the
ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and
a girdle.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:010

018:010 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I
saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:009

018:009 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a
mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak,
and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up
between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under
him went away.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:008

018:008 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the
sword devoured.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:007

018:007 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of
David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of
twenty thousand men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:006

018:006 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the
battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:005

018:005 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.
And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains
charge concerning Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:004

018:004 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do.
And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came
out by hundreds and by thousands.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:003

018:003 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we
flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us
die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten
thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour
us out of the city.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:002

018:002 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand
of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of
Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of
Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will
surely go forth with you myself also.

Text of 2 Samuel - 018:001

018:001 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set
captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:029

017:029 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for
David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they
said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
wilderness.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:028

017:028 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles,
and parched pulse,

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:027

017:027 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that
Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
Gileadite of Rogelim,

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:026

017:026 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:025

017:025 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab:
which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an
Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,
sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:024

017:024 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan,
he and all the men of Israel with him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:023

017:023 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to
his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself,
and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:022

017:022 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and
they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not
one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:021

017:021 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came
up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said
unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus
hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:020

017:020 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house,
they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said
unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they
had sought and could not find them, they returned to
Jerusalem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:019

017:019 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's
mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not
known.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:018

017:018 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went
both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in
Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went
down.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:017

017:017 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not
be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them;
and they went and told king David.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:016

017:016 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not
this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass
over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that
are with him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:015

017:015 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus
and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of
Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:014

017:014 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.
For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of
Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon
Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:013

017:013 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel
bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river,
until there be not one small stone found there.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:012

017:012 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the
ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there
shall not be left so much as one.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:011

017:011 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the
sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own
person.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:010

017:010 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy
father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant
men.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:009

017:009 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and
it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the
first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a
slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:008

017:008 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that
they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a
bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a
man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:007

017:007 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
given is not good at this time.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:006

017:006 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,
saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do
after his saying? if not; speak thou.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:005

017:005 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let
us hear likewise what he saith.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:004

017:004 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:003

017:003 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom
thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be
in peace.

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:002

017:002 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed,
and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him
shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

Text of 2 Samuel - 017:001

017:001 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out
twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David
this night:

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:023

016:023 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those
days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so
was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with
Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:022

016:022 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and
Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of
all Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:021

016:021 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's
concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all
Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then
shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:020

016:020 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what
we shall do.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:019

016:019 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the
presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's
presence, so will I be in thy presence.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:018

016:018 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this
people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and
with him will I abide.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:017

016:017 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy
friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:016

016:016 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend,
was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save
the king, God save the king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:015

016:015 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to
Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:014

016:014 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came
weary, and refreshed themselves there.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:013

016:013 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on
the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and
threw stones at him, and cast dust.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:012

016:012 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that
the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:011

016:011 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my
son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much
more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him
curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:010

016:010 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto
him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done
so?

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:009

016:009 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should
this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray
thee, and take off his head.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:008

016:008 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of
Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath
delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and,
behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a
bloody man.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:007

016:007 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou
bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:006

016:006 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king
David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his
right hand and on his left.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:005

016:005 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a
man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei,
the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:004

016:004 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that
pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech
thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:003

016:003 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba
said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he
said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom
of my father.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:002

016:002 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And
Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on;
and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and
the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

Text of 2 Samuel - 016:001

016:001 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold,
Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of
asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and
an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer
fruits, and a bottle of wine.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:037

015:037 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came
into Jerusalem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:036

015:036 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz
Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall
send unto me every thing that ye can hear.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:035

015:035 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the
priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou
shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to
Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:034

015:034 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will
be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant
hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou
for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:033

015:033 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou
shalt be a burden unto me:

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:032

015:032 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of
the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite
came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:031

015:031 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the
conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray
thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:030

015:030 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as
he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot:
and all the people that was with him covered every man his
head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:029

015:029 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to
Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:028

015:028 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there
come word from you to certify me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:027

015:027 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer?
return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,
Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:026

015:026 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am
I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:025

015:025 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into
the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he
will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:024

015:024 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing
the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of
God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done
passing out of the city.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:023

015:023 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people
passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook
Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the
wilderness.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:022

015:022 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the
Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones
that were with him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:021

015:021 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and
as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the
king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will
thy servant be.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:020

015:020 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee
go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return
thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with
thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:019

015:019 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou
also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king:
for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:018

015:018 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the
Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six
hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before
the king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:017

015:017 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and
tarried in a place that was far off.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:016

015:016 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And
the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the
house.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:015

015:015 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy
servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall
appoint.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:014

015:014 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at
Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else
escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us
suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the
edge of the sword.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:013

015:013 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the
men of Israel are after Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:012

015:012 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's
counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered
sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people
increased continually with Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:011

015:011 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that
were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew
not any thing.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:010

015:010 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye
shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:009

015:009 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went
to Hebron.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:008

015:008 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria,
saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem,
then I will serve the LORD.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:007

015:007 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto
the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have
vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:006

015:006 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the
king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of
Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:005

015:005 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him
obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed
him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:004

015:004 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land,
that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto
me, and I would do him justice!

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:003

015:003 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and
right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:002

015:002 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the
gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy
came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him,
and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is
of one of the tribes of Israel.

Text of 2 Samuel - 015:001

015:001 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:033

014:033 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called
for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his
face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed
Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:032

014:032 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying,
Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say,
Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to
have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's
face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:031

014:031 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said
unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:030

014:030 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near
mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And
Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:029

014:029 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king;
but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the
second time, he would not come.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:028

014:028 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the
king's face.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:027

014:027 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter,
whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:026

014:026 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end
that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him,
therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at
two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:025

014:025 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the
crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:024

014:024 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him
not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw
not the king's face.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:023

014:023 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
Jerusalem.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:022

014:022 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself,
and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant
knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king,
in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:021

014:021 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this
thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:020

014:020 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done
this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an
angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:019

014:019 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all
this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my
lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left
from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant
Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of
thine handmaid:

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:018

014:018 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from
me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the
woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:017

014:017 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall
now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the
king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will
be with thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:016

014:016 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the
hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out
of the inheritance of God.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:015

014:015 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my
lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid:
and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may
be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:014

014:014 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect
any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:013

014:013 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a
thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this
thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch
home again his banished.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:012

014:012 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:011

014:011 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy
God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to
destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As
the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to
the earth.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:010

014:010 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to
me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:009

014:009 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king,
the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king
and his throne be guiltless.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:008

014:008 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I
will give charge concerning thee.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:007

014:007 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid,
and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may
kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we
will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal
which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name
nor remainder upon the earth.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:006

014:006 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in
the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote
the other, and slew him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:005

014:005 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:004

014:004 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on
her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O
king.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:003

014:003 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So
Joab put the words in her mouth.

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:002

014:002 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and
said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and
put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil,
but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

Text of 2 Samuel - 014:001

014:001 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart
was toward Absalom.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:039

013:039 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom:
for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:038

013:038 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three
years.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:037

013:037 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king
of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:036

013:036 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up
their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants
wept very sore.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:035

013:035 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come:
as thy servant said, so it is.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:034

013:034 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted
up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people
by the way of the hill side behind him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:033

013:033 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his
heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon
only is dead.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:032

013:032 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and
said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the
young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the
appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day
that he forced his sister Tamar.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:031

013:031 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the
earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:030

013:030 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings
came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons,
and there is not one of them left.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:029

013:029 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat
him up upon his mule, and fled.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:028

013:028 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now
when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto
you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I
commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:027

013:027 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's
sons go with him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:026

013:026 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon
go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with
thee?

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:025

013:025 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now
go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him:
howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:024

013:024 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy
servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and
his servants go with thy servant.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:023

013:023 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and
Absalom invited all the king's sons.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:022

013:022 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad:
for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister
Tamar.

Text of 2 Samuel - 013:021

013:021 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
wroth.