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2 Samuel 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:1 - It was told Yo'av, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Avshalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:2 - The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3 - The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:4 - The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, my son Avshalom, Avshalom, my son, my son!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - Yo'av came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Avshalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.

David Restored as King

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:8 - Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Yisra'el had fled every man to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:9 - All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Yisra'el, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Pelishtim; and now he is fled out of the land from Avshalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:10 - Avshalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:11 - King David sent to Tzadok and to Avyatar the Kohanim, saying, Speak to the Zakenim of Yehudah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Yisra'el is come to the king, to bring him to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12 - You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - Say you 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 host before me continually in the room of Yo'av.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:14 - He bowed the heart of all the men of Yehudah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - So the king returned, and came to the Yarden. Yehudah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Yarden.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:16 - Shim`i the son of Gera, the Binyamini, who was of Bachurim, hurried and came down with the men of Yehudah to meet king David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - There were a thousand men of Binyamin with him, and Tziva the servant of the house of Sha'ul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Yarden in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:18 - There went over a ferry-boat to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Shim`i the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the Yarden.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - 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 Yerushalayim, that the king should take it to his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Yosef to go down to meet my lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - But Avishai the son of Tzeru'yah answered, Shall Shim`i not be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:22 - David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Tzeru'yah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Yisra'el? for don't I know that I am this day king over Yisra'el?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:23 - The king said to Shim`i, You shall not die. The king swore to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:24 - Mefivoshet the son of Sha'ul came down to meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in shalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25 - It happened, when he was come to Yerushalayim to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mefivoshet?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:26 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:28 - 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?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - The king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? I say, You and Tziva divide the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:30 - Mefivoshet said to the king, yes, let him take all, because my lord the king is come in shalom to his own house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:31 - Barzillai the Gil`adite came down from Roglim; and he went over the Yarden with the king, to conduct him over the Yarden.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Machanayim; for he was a very great man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - The king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Yerushalayim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34 - 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 Yerushalayim?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - 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?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant would but just go over the Yarden with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:37 - 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 Kemoham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - The king answered, Kemoham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:39 - All the people went over the Yarden, and the king went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:40 - So the king went over to Gilgal, and Kemoham went over with him: and all the people of Yehudah brought the king over, and also half the people of Yisra'el.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - Behold, all the men of Yisra'el came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Yehudah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Yarden, and all David's men with him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - All the men of Yehudah answered the men of Yisra'el, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - The men of Yisra'el answered the men of Yehudah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in 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 Yehudah were fiercer than the words of the men of Yisra'el.
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