2SamuEL 19-21 2SamuEL 19:1 And JoAB was told, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for ABsalom.” 2SamuEL 19:2 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard it said that day, “The king is grieved for his son.” 2SamuEL 19:3 And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 2SamuEL 19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, “O my son ABsalom! O ABsalom, my son, my son!” John 3:16 2SamuEL 19:5 Then JoAB came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have disgraced all your 6:20; IsaiAH 53:3; Luke 15:4,8,32; Acts 13:22 servants who https://youtube/watch?v=YBxuiDhefgo today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines, 2SamuEL 19:6 in that you love your enemies and hate your friends. For you have declared today that you regard neither princes nor servants; for today I perceive that if ABsalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you well. (Was he actually mourning for his son or was he realizing the price that his son paid for his own sin)? 2SamuEL 19:7 Now therefore, arise, go out and speak comfort to your servants. For I swear by The LORD, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.” 2SamuEL 19:8 Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, “There is the king, sitting in the gate.” So all the people came before the king. For everyone of IsraEL had fled to his tent. David Returns to Jerusalem 2SamuEL 19:9 Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of IsraEL, saying, “The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of ABsalom. 2SamuEL 19:10 But ABsalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now therefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king?” 2SamuEL 19:11 So King David sent to Zadok and ABiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of JudAH, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the words of all IsraEL have come to the king, to his very house? 2SamuEL 19:12 You are my brethren, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’ 2SamuEL 19:13 And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not (IshmeELite) my bone and my flesh? GOD do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me continually in place of JoAB.’ ” 2SamuEL 19:14 So he swayed the hearts of all the men of JudAH, just as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants!” 2SamuEL 19:15 Then the king returned and came to the Jordan. And JudAH came to Gilgal, (near Jericho in Benjamin) to go to meet the king, to escort the king across the Jordan. 2SamuEL 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, 16:7 who was from BAHurim, hurried and came down with the men of JudAH to meet King David. 2SamuEL 19:17 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 the Jordan before the king. 2SamuEL 19:18 Then a ferryboat went across to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. David’s Mercy to Shimei Now Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan. (many things happened for IsraEL when crossing the Jordan River) Deuteronomy 4:22 I (Moses) must not cross over the Jordan Numbers 32:29; If children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you (Manasseh), every man armed for battle before The LORD, 2SamuEL 10:17; Joshua 3:11 (NKJV) Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you (IsraEL) into the Jordan. Joshua 4:22 IsraEL crossed over this Jordan on dry land Joshua 4:23 (NKJV) for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you (IsraEL) until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, Judges 8:4 (NKJV) When Gideon came to the Jordan, he and the three hundred men who were with him crossed over, Judges 10:9 (NKJV) Moreover the people of Ammon crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah also, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed. II Samuel 17:22 (NKJV) So David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. II Samuel 17:24 (NKJV) Then David went to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed over the Jordan, II Samuel 19:39 (NKJV) Then all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place. Mark 1:5 The all the land of Judea and those from Jerusalem, went out to him (John the Baptist) and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. https://youtube/watch?v=2W4-UfQasSs https://youtube/watch?v=Euvacixwacg 2SamuEL 19:19 Then he said to the king, “Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my lord the king left Jerusalem, that the king should take it to heart. 2SamuEL 19:20 For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. Therefore here I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.” 2SamuEL 19:21 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?” 2SamuEL 19:22 And David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of ZeruiAH, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in IsraEL? For do I not know that today I am king over IsraEL?” 2SamuEL 19:23 Therefore the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” (nobody dies today) And the king swore to him. David and Mephibosheth Meet 2SamuEL 19:24 Now Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he returned in peace. 2SamuEL 19:25 So it was, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?” 2SamuEL 19:26 And he answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived 16:1-4 me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king,’ because your servant is lame. 2SamuEL 19:27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is like the angel of GOD. Therefore do what is good in your eyes. 2SamuEL 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 eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out anymore to the king?” 2SamuEL 19:29 So the king said to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Ziba divide the land.’ ” 2SamuEL 19:30 Then Mephibosheth said to the king, “Rather, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house.” David’s Kindness to Barzillai 2SamuEL 19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from RogELim and went across the Jordan with the king, to escort him across the Jordan. 2SamuEL 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at MAHanaim, (town East of Jordan) for he was a very rich man. 2SamuEL 19:33 And the king said to Barzillai, “Come across with me, and I will provide for you while you are with me in Jerusalem.” 2SamuEL 19:34 But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 2SamuEL 19:35 I am today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king? 2SamuEL 19:36 Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with such a reward? 2SamuEL 19:37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham; (son of Barzillai)? let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.” 2SamuEL 19:38 And the king answered, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you. Now whatever you request of me, I will do for you.” 2SamuEL 19:39 Then all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place. The Quarrel About the King 2SamuEL 19:40 Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. And all the people of JudAH escorted the king, and also half the people of IsraEL. 2SamuEL 19:41 Just then all the men of IsraEL came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brethren, the men of JudAH, stolen you away and brought the king, his household, and all David’s men with him across the Jordan?” 2SamuEL 19:42 So all the men of JudAH answered the men of IsraEL, “Because the king is a close relative Ruth 2:1,3,9,12,13,20; 3:2; 4:1,3,6,8,14 of ours. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?” 2SamuEL 19:43 And the men of IsraEL answered the men of JudAH, and said, “We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” Yet the words of the men of JudAH were fiercer than the words of the men of IsraEL. The Rebellion of Sheba 2SamuEL 20:1 And there happened to be there a rebel, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet, and said: “We have no share in David, Nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; Every man to his tents, O IsraEL!” 2SamuEL 20:2 So every man of IsraEL deserted David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of JudAH, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to their king. 2SamuEL 20:3 Now 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 seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. 2SamuEL 20:4 And the king said to Amasa, “Assemble the men of JudAH for me within three days, and be present here yourself.” 2SamuEL 20:5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of JudAH. But he delayed longer than the set time which David had appointed him. 2SamuEL 20:6 And David said to ABishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than ABsalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us.” 2SamuEL 20:7 So JoAB’s men, with the Cherethites, (Philistine tribe) the PELethites, (Reuben) and all the mighty men, went out after him. And they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. 2SamuEL 20:8 When they were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. Now JoAB was dressed in battle armour; on it was a belt with a sword fastened in its sheath at his hips; and as he was going forward, it fell out. 2SamuEL 20:9 Then JoAB said to Amasa, “Are you in health, my brother?” And JoAB took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss Matthew 26:49 him. 2SamuEL 20:10 But Amasa did not notice the sword that was in JoAB’s hand. And he struck him with it in the stomach, and his entrails poured out on the ground; and he did not strike him again. Thus he died. Then JoAB and ABishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. 2SamuEL 20:11 Meanwhile one of JoAB’s men stood near Amasa, and said, “Whoever favours JoAB and whoever is for David— follow JoAB!” 2SamuEL 20:12 But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came upon him halted. 2SamuEL 20:13 When he was removed from the highway, all the people went on after JoAB to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. 2SamuEL 20:14 And he went through all the tribes of IsraEL to ABEL (city in Naphtali) and Beth MaachAH (city in Manasseh) and all the Berites. (descendants of Asher) So they were gathered together and also went after Sheba. 2SamuEL 20:15 Then they came and besieged him in ABEL (of)? Beth MaachAH; and they cast up a siege mound against the city, and it stood by the rampart. And all the people who were with JoAB battered the wall to throw it down. 2SamuEL 20:16 Then a wise woman cried out from the city, (ABEL of Naphtali) “Hear, hear! Please say to JoAB, ‘Come nearby, that I may speak with you.’ ” 2SamuEL 20:17 When he had come near to her, the woman said, “Are you JoAB?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your maidservant.” And he answered, “I am listening.” 2SamuEL 20:18 So she spoke, saying, “They used to talk in former times, saying, ‘They shall surely seek guidance at ABEL,’ and so they would end disputes. 2SamuEL 20:19 I am among the peaceable and faithful in IsraEL. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in IsraEL. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of The LORD?” 2SamuEL 20:20 And JoAB answered and said, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy! 2SamuEL 20:21 That is not so. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.” So the woman said to JoAB, “Watch, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.” 2SamuEL 20:22 Then the woman in her wisdom went to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to JoAB. Then he blew a trumpet, and they withdrew from the city, every man to his tent. So JoAB returned to the king at Jerusalem. David’s Government Officers 2SamuEL 20:23 And JoAB was over all the army of IsraEL; BenaiAH the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the PELethites; 2SamuEL 20:24 Adoram was in charge of revenue; Jehoshaphat the son of AHilud was recorder; 2SamuEL 20:25 Sheva was scribe; Zadok and ABiathar were the priests; 2SamuEL 20:26 and Ira the Jairite (descendant of JudAH & Manasseh) was a chief minister under David. David Avenges the Gibeonites 2SamuEL 21:1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of The LORD. And The LORD ANSWERED, “It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.” (people of city in Benjamin) 2SamuEL 21:2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of IsraEL, but of the remnant of the Amorites; (Ham Genesis 10:16) the children of IsraEL had sworn protection Joshua 9:3 to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of IsraEL and JudAH. 2SamuEL 21:3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of The LORD?” 2SamuEL 21:4 And the Gibeonites said to him, “We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house, nor shall you kill any man in IsraEL for us.” So he said, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.” 2SamuEL 21:5 Then they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of IsraEL, 2SamuEL 21:6 let seven men of his descendants be delivered to us, and we will hang them before The LORD in GibeAH of Saul, whom The LORD chose.” And the king said, “I will give them.” 2SamuEL 21:7 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. 2SamuEL 21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of RizpAH 3:7 the daughter of AiAH, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, 6:16 whom she brought up for AdriEL the son of Barzillai the Meholathite; (Issachar) 1SamuEL 14:50 2SamuEL 21:9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before The LORD. So 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. 2SamuEL 21:10 Now RizpAH the daughter of AiAH took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night. 2SamuEL 21:11 And David was told what RizpAH the daughter of AiAH, the concubine of Saul, had done. 2SamuEL 21:12 Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of JABesh Gilead who had stolen (city in Gad) them from the street of Beth Shan, where (city in Manasseh) the Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa. (district in Manasseh) 2SamuEL 21:13 So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged. 2SamuEL 21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in ZELAH, (city) in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that GOD heeded the prayer for the land. Philistine Giants Destroyed 2SamuEL 21:15 When the Philistines were at war again with IsraEL, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint. 2SamuEL 21:16 Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. 1SamuEL 17:49 2SamuEL 21:17 But ABishai the son of ZeruiAH came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp / light / candle 1Kings 11:36; 2King 8:18; of IsraEL.” 2SamuEL 21:18 Now it happened afterward that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. (Nob)? (in Gezer) Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed (JudAH) Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant. 2SamuEL 21:19 Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where ELhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed (in Judea) the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 2SamuEL 21:20 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant. 2SamuEL 21:21 So when he defied IsraEL, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him. 2SamuEL 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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